 Hello friends, I am Dr. Shalini Banzar, audiologist and speech therapist working in a Manipal hospital. So on the day of world hearing day, I would like to celebrate the gift of hearing. Hearing is very precious but also it's very fragile. Once it is lost, it cannot be prevented. So it's very important for us to prevent the hearing from now onwards. Also WHO suggested that within 2050 we will have 700 million population which will be affected with the hearing loss. So we need to make it wrong and we all have to come together and work for it. So I'll start with the newborn. The child always hearing why hearing is more important for us. First we have to understand this. So hearing is something which help us to understand speech. For children if they do not hear they cannot speak. So we really important to have the hearing to get the normal speech development, communication development, social development to have a good school performance due to which we need to have a newborn hearing screening within one month of the age. The child needs to be hearing tested within one month. If they are not being tested then it's very difficult to detect and the early intervention cannot be done. So sooner it will be realized or better with the intervention and it will always lead to a better communication, academic performance, social development and family supports. When we go for the adult you also find that nowadays because work from home there's a lot of access users of headphone. The prolonged users of headphone is leading to a permanent damage of hearing. So what the symptoms comes to them that they will come with a complaint that I am getting a ringing sensation in the ear. So these are very small symptoms but it causes a permanent damage of the hearing. So I request you all please do not use the headphone for a longer duration even if you are using the longer headphone use at the 50 to 60 percent of the maximum volume not more than that and always leave a gap in between. Try to avoid a listening loud music because this again causes a permanent damage. Also do not encourage kids to use the headphone for a longer duration. If you find out children who have a mis-articulation suppose that they are not able to say curve for school they are saying cool these type of problem they are facing please ask them to get the hearing test done. If child is not responding to a sound child is not responding for the name calls child is not having a good academic performance these are the very few symptoms which can be identified and if you find these symptoms you are finding in children get the hearing test done and it's very important to get the regular checkup for hearing which will help us to prevent for further damage and also get the early intervention due to which the further damage will not be done and sooner treatment can be accepted by the population. Thank you so much.