• Title
  Item 1: Pia O'Donnell interview by Louise Darmody
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  28 June 2023
• Type of material
  Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories
• Reference code
  9680279
• Physical Description
  2 audio files (1 hr., 44 min.) - digital, WAV, stereo (48 kHz, 24 bit)
  
• Scope and Content
  In this interview Pia O’Donnell discusses her experience as the first congenitally deaf child in Australia to receive a cochlear implant, and the moment as a child aged four that she first told her parents she wanted the implant. Pia discusses her early life, adjusting to the cochlear implant, her explanation of how it works, speech therapy, her experiences at school as a deaf student, and learning Auslan after high school. Pia also reflects on her young son who also has a cochlear implant, and the difference she notices with his schooling experience and support. Pia discusses her university studies and completing a Bachelor of Science, working for the NSW Rural Fire Service, her current role mapping bushfires with satellite imagery and the immense work involved after the 2019-2020 bushfires.
• Language
  English
• Copying Conditions
  In copyright:
  Copyright holder:: State Library of New South Wales
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Recorded at Forbes Street Studios, Woolloomooloo, New South Wales, on 28 June 2023
• Creator/Author/Artist
  O'Donnell, Pia, 1981-
  
• Subject
  Cochlear implants.
  NSW Rural Fire Service.
  O'Donnell, Pia--Interviews.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE21104152

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