Amni Salma is first time to join the Deaf World!!!

   On the occasion of the event, I met Amni Salma through our event. I am interested to know about her different way of education. I am curious about how she can handle her training speech without the special school. She would like to share her speech with me here. She was born with bilateral mixed hearing loss severe to profound Deaf but she has successful her speech as well until now.

 When she was 5 years old at the kindergarten, her teacher has noticed that she is unable to pay attention to her voice. Her teacher has suggested it to her parent for checking hearing tests and getting hearing aids too. After that, her parents have decided to sent her to the mainstream school, Bandar Baru Bangi so they have trained her kid's speech every day. Since they have to attend speech therapy sessions for 2 to 3 times then her mother teaches her at home all the time since then.

 Sometimes she has difficulty with her consonant sounds when she trained her voice. But she keeps practising her speech while she pays attention to her speech reading beside her mother for correcting her pronunciation sounds.

 In the mainstream of primary and secondary school, she always sits at the first row of the table every year. She was still struggling to catch up on the lesson and only get 1A in SPM. However due to her diligent way of study skills she manages to further her Degree and Master level study with Dean's List achievements.

 

What is the most difficult speech?

She learns her oral speech and has challenged her auditory class with hearing people. Her hearing is unclear with word sounds and difficult to catches full sentences. She can only get half part of the conversation and she needs to guess their story.

 With the hearing people, she experiences a lot of difficulties catching the conversation if she stays in the noisy background. For example the sound of a car, an air condition, a kitchen and so on. She needs to use her listening skill to filter those noise backgrounds with people voices.

 After that, she never gave up to get a better hearing. She tries to find the highest technology for hearing aids or cochlear implants. First, she wants to get a cochlear implant but after done many tests it is not approved because part of her cochlear is still can function a little bit. Then she wants to apply to get a bone bridge implant but it is also not approved because she does not have an ossicles ear bone to put the implant. So she has no choice to fully depending on both Ultra Power Hearing Aids to maximize volume.

 Therefore, she keeps continuing on her journey life as a career woman. Eventually, her officemates and close friend always support and help to correct her listening and pronounce sounds too. She is not alone anymore and feels lucky in her situation.

 

Did she attend her Malaysian Sign Language for learning something in the Deaf world?

 Yes, she did learn sign language since primary school on weekends and keep brushing her knowledge in signing. She enjoys hanging out with Deaf friends too but sometimes she is having a hard time catching up with their full stories if they are too excited with their fast sign in Malaysian Sign Language. So she is happy that she can mingle in both societies with hearing people and Deaf friends in the world.

She asked me to take our selfies once time.