{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Zo\u00eb Hector on deaf children and her social enterprise to help them 'Talk Town'","description":"Zo\u00eb Hector (nee Haws) founded social enterprise 'Talk Town' after she had worked as a teacher aide and saw deaf children left out of games on the playground. &amp;nbsp;In this interview we talk about her own background and journey that has led to this initiative, what it was like to win the Entre start-up challenge in 2017 and her plans for the future. &amp;nbsp;Zoe has a crowdfunding campaign at the moment - check it out in the link below. Website:&amp;nbsp;https:\/\/www.talktowngame.net Pledge me campaign page:&amp;nbsp;https:\/\/www.pledgeme.co.nz\/projects\/5688-talk-town-a-revolutionary-digital-game-for-young-deaf-people https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TalkTownGame\/ From the website for Talk Town: &quot;My name is Zo\u00eb. I grew up with a deaf sibling - but didn't realise how much this influenced me until I went to university to study psychology. My undergraduate degrees had a strong emphasis on child development and psycholinguistics. I also studied NZSL. This lead to a student job as a teacher aide for Deaf children, and after graduation, as a researcher in universities in New Zealand and abroad. At the Deafness, Cognition and Language Research Centre, I ran the UK stream of an international study on Theory of Mind development in deaf toddlers.&quot; ","author_name":"Seeds","author_url":"https:\/\/www.theseeds.nz","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/6861198\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/22664248"}