Calling for help (with subtitles)

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Calling for help (with subtitles)

3News NZ

Being a single mum of two under four can be stressful enough, but when you're profoundly deaf it's a whole new level. You communicate by lip-reading and signing, but when your little girl wakes you in the middle of the night blue-lipped and short of breath, what do you do?

You physically can't call an ambulance.

Luckily, Stevie Aiono's three-year-old Lina was one step ahead. She'd learned what to do at kindy.

Rachel Tiffen went to meet the clever toddler.

Watch the video - which has subtitles - to see her story.

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28/07/2012 5:10:15 p.m.

monica wrote:

you so brave little girl

27/07/2012 1:18:06 p.m.

Angela Lindsay wrote:

There is a Text 111 service available only to the deaf and hearing-impaired in NZ, who have registered for this service for free with Deaf Aotearoa NZ.