"Don't give up with what you do, even though you have hearing loss," Robbie Ferguson tells other children who, like him, are deaf.
But now the 11-year-old has the same message for the Abbott government: don't give up on the country's largest hearing provider, which is being tipped to be privatised. 
Australian Hearing Services, an organisation that provides hearing services and research for children who are deaf or have hearing loss, has been targeted by the Department of Finance since last year for possible privatisation. The move was recommended by the Commission of Audit and announced last year.
Labor and advocacy groups argue that the privatisation of Australian Hearing will splinter its services and put profit ahead of services offered. Regional services in remote Australia could also be adversely affected, they say.
Labor's shadow parliamentary secretary for health, Nick Champion, said the audiologists at Australian Hearing did an amazing job.
"The proposed privatisation of Australian Hearing is an attempt to Americanise our health system," Mr Champion said. "Australian Hearing has operated in government hands since 1947, and should remain that way into the future."
Robbie's mother, Berenice Ferguson, said the privatisation would significantly affect the families who use the service.
"Australia has best-practice paediatric hearing services," she said. "What we have got is the research informing the practice and then our kids are being the recipients of that. I think if we privatise that we lose that unique relationship. 
"I would say to the government, 'Celebrate what you're doing really well and don't sell it off.'"
Ms Ferguson said that when Robbie was a baby they would visit Australian Hearing every week, and he has been getting hearing aids since he was nine weeks old.
"We just don't know what to expect, so it makes us very nervous," she said.
Kate Kennedy, co-ordinator of Parents of Deaf Children and a mother of two children with hearing difficulties, said the privatisation of Australian Hearing was "too risky" and was an "ideological decision".
"We at Parents of Deaf Children have been lobbying since the announcement in 2014," she said.
"My kids are in their twenties, but if I had a baby tomorrow, you really are in uncharted waters and this adds a whole lot more uncertainty for families who really need that."
Minister for Finance Mathias Cormann said any change in ownership of Australian Hearing would not affect eligibility or funding of the Community Service Obligation hearing services, including consultations in remote communities. 
The scoping study says it is determining the future ownership of the service.
The government is also examining the privatisation of the Australian Mint, Defence Housing Australia and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.
It is unknown when the study it will report its findings on Australian Hearing.
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