 In the wake of the World Hearing Day, there has been a renewed call for the country to promote an inclusive environment where people with hearing disability can have equal opportunities to thrive. This call was made by The Sims Deaf Probe Foundation at an event to commemorate World Hearing Day 2024, themed Spotlighting Excellence, Deaf Arts Showcase and Policymakers. The event showcased exceptionally gifted community of deaf artists across music, dance, poetry and visual arts. Our correspondent Paul George was there and now reports. Sitting here are mostly people living with disabilities. The special young ones who demystify the odds of hearing loss display their prowess in choreography, dance and miming of songs to the admiration of the audience. The executive director and founder of Sims Deaf Probe, Samuel James Femi, says the special young adults can do much more if they get support from the government. In the university, we are still very hopeful that the government will reach out to us. We are pushing all we can to be able to get to the government. Eniola Ayeni, who represented the general manager, Legal State Office for Disability Affairs, Adenike Uyetunde-Lawal, urges everyone to learn sign language to bridge the gap. She speaks alongside policymakers. We understand the importance of communication and we engage everybody in the university to enable them to sign language through trains organized by them by the office. I came across the Deaf and Dance crew. I've been following their work and I've also created opportunities for them to work with choreographers that I work with. I think when people see that, they will realize that there are actually gaps in the work that they're making or the work that they're platforming and they will encourage the inclusion of artists who have disabilities within their own platforms as well. When you identify something, you embrace it and know there's something there. If the society can identify with them, it makes it easier to create opportunities to create platforms. And I believe even in the academics, that opportunity can be to create curriculums around the disabilities. Like I said, I don't like to use the word disability. So people that are unique, everyone of us are unique. So we can actually have inclusion when we look at the SDG goal, where inclusion is infused. Special educator and sign language interpreter Bayon Lee Olaoluwa reveals the courses of deafness and how it can be prevented. Deafness can be an editor, right? Like, a deaf person can give rights to another deaf person. So another part is smoking while being pregnant. Accidents during pregnancy for someone who was born hearing and now became deaf. This is one of the major courses. So long labor can also cause it. Sound, noise can cause it. Um, injury in the year can also cause it. Year works, excessive year works can make someone lose their hearing drum and become deaf. She uses our hearing aids. When she wants to listen to music, she has to listen to this song first to score the song so that it will match the signs. So she will sign to what she has prepared, she has re-asked. The audience who cannot hide their expressions to the performances believes that there is ability in disability. Paul, George plus TV News. notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates