ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Roberto D'Angelo + Francesca Fedeli - Parents
Roberto D'Angelo and Francesca Fedeli created the social enterprise FightTheStroke.org to open up a dialogue about the devastating effects of strokes at a young age. This issue is important to them for a simple reason: because they've been through it themselves with their son Mario.

Why you should listen

When Roberto D'Angelo and Francesca Fedeli’s son, Mario, was just 10 days old, he was diagnosed as having had a perinatal stroke in the right side of his brain, which left him unable to move the left side of his body. Through mirror neuron rehabilitation, Mario is now 5 years old and has greatly improved motion.

The tech-savvy couple founded FightTheStroke.org to gather and share the experiences of families who have been affected by all types of infant and childhood strokes. The social movement wants to open up a dialogue about the devastating effects of this traumatic event, advocating for young stroke survivors and using technology and open medicine as enablers for their better future. Together, as a family, they’re promoting the awareness of this story as motivational speakers at events like TED, they're proud ambassaros of TEDMED in Italy and promoters of the first Medicine Hackathon in Italy, aimed to regroup the leading experts on Medicine and Innovation. Roberto is Director for Online Learning at Microsoft Italy, while Francesca currently focuses her management expertise in the FightTheStroke.org project, and they are developing an innovative rehabilitation platform based on Mirror Neurons. Francesca also acts as a member of various Board of Patients Associations, became an Eisenhower Fellow in 2014 and the first Ashoka Fellow in Italy in 2015.

 

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Roberto D'Angelo + Francesca Fedeli: In our baby's illness, a life lesson

Roberto D'Angelo + Francesca Fedeli: Roberto D'Angelo + Francesca Fedeli: Pelajaran hidup dalam penyakit putra kami

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Roberto D'Angelo dan Francesca Fedeli merasa bayi mereka, Mario, adalah bayi yang sehat -- sampai pada usia 10 hari, mereka menemukan bahwa dia mengalami stroke pra-kelahiran. Mereka menghadapi pertanyaan sulit karena Mario tidak dapat mengendalikan tubuh sebelah kirinya: Apakah dia akan menjadi "normal?" Apakah dia dapat hidup dengan baik? Kisah yang menyentuh dari orang tua yang menghadapi ketakutan mereka -- dan bagaimana mereka membalikannya.
- Parents
Roberto D'Angelo and Francesca Fedeli created the social enterprise FightTheStroke.org to open up a dialogue about the devastating effects of strokes at a young age. This issue is important to them for a simple reason: because they've been through it themselves with their son Mario. Full bio

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FrancescaFrancesca FedeliFedeli: CiaoCiao.
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Francesca Fedeli: Halo.
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So he's MarioMario. He's our sonputra.
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Ini adalah putra kami, Mario.
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He was bornlahir two and a halfsetengah yearstahun agolalu,
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Dia lahir dua setengah tahun yang lalu,
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and I had a prettycantik toughsulit pregnancykehamilan
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dan kehamilan saya cukup sulit
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because I had to staytinggal still in a bedtempat tidur for, like, eightdelapan monthsbulan.
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karena saya harus tetap di ranjang selama delapan bulan.
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But in the endakhir everything seemedtampak to be underdibawah controlkontrol.
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Namun pada akhirnya semuanya tampak terkendali.
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So he got the right weightberat at birthkelahiran.
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Saat dilahirkan, berat badannya normal,
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He got the right ApgarApgar indexindeks.
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indeks Apgarnya juga normal.
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So we were prettycantik reassuredmeyakinkan by this.
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Kami cukup lega karena hal ini.
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But at the endakhir, 10 dayshari laterkemudian after he was bornlahir,
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Namun pada akhirnya, 10 hari setelah dia lahir
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we discoveredditemukan that he had a strokepukulan.
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kami mengetahui bahwa dia terkena stroke.
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As you mightmungkin know,
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Mungkin Anda sudah tahu
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a strokepukulan is a brainotak injurycedera.
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bahwa stroke adalah cidera otak.
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A perinatalPerinatal strokepukulan could be something
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Stroke pra-kelahiran adalah sesuatu
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that can happenterjadi duringselama the ninesembilan monthsbulan of pregnancykehamilan
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yang dapat terjadi dalam sembilan bulan kehamilan
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or just suddenlymendadak after the birthkelahiran,
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atau tepat setelah dilahirkan,
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and in his casekasus, as you can see,
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dan dalam kasus ini, seperti yang Anda lihat
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the right partbagian of his brainotak has gonepergi.
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bagian kanan dari otaknya sudah hilang.
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So the effectefek that this strokepukulan could have on Mario'sMario bodytubuh
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Jadi dampak yang mungkin dari stroke ini pada tubuh Mario
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could be the factfakta that he couldn'ttidak bisa be ablesanggup to controlkontrol
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adalah dia tidak dapat mengendalikan
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the left sidesisi of his bodytubuh.
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tubuh sebelah kirinya.
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Just imaginemembayangkan, if you have a computerkomputer and a printerpencetak
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Bayangkan saja, jika Anda memiliki komputer dan printer
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and you want to transmitmengirimkan, to inputmemasukkan to printmencetak out a documentdokumen,
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lalu Anda ingin mengirim atau mencetak naskah,
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but the printerpencetak doesn't have the right drivesdrive,
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namun printer itu tidak memiliki piranti lunak yang tepat,
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so the samesama is for MarioMario.
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itulah yang terjadi pada Mario.
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It's just like, he would like to movepindah his left sidesisi
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Misalnya, dia ingin menggerakkan tubuh sebelah kirinya,
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of his bodytubuh, but he's not ablesanggup to transmitmengirimkan the right inputmemasukkan
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namun dia tidak dapat mengirimkan masukan yang tepat
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to movepindah his left armlengan and left legkaki.
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untuk menggerakkan tangan dan kaki kirinya.
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So life had to changeperubahan.
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Jadi kehidupan harus berubah.
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We neededdibutuhkan to changeperubahan our schedulesusunan acara.
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Kami harus mengubah jadwal kami.
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We neededdibutuhkan to changeperubahan the impactdampak that this birthkelahiran had
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Kami harus mengubah dampak dari kelahiran itu
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on our life.
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pada hidup kami.
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RobertoRoberto D'AngeloD'Angelo: As you maymungkin imaginemembayangkan,
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Roberto D'Angelo: Seperti yang Anda kira,
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unfortunatelysayangnya, we were not readysiap.
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kami tidak siap untuk hal ini.
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NobodyTidak ada taughtdiajarkan us how to dealberurusan with suchseperti itu kindsmacam of disabilitiesCacat,
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Tidak ada yang mengajarkan kami untuk
menghadapi kelumpuhan seperti ini
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and as manybanyak questionspertanyaan as possiblemungkin starteddimulai
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dan banyak sekali pertanyaan muncul
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to come to our mindspikiran.
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di dalam pikiran kami.
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And that has been really a toughsulit time.
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Dan itu adalah waktu yang sangat sulit.
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QuestionsPertanyaan, some basicsdasar-dasar, like, you know,
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Pertanyaan itu, beberapa sangat mendasar, seperti
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why did this happenterjadi to us?
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mengapa hal ini terjadi pada kami?
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And what wentpergi wrongsalah?
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Apa yang salah?
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Some more toughsulit, like, really,
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Beberapa pertanyaan lebih sulit, seperti
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what will be the impactdampak on Mario'sMario life?
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apa dampaknya bagi kehidupan Mario kelak?
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I mean, at the endakhir, will he be ablesanggup to work?
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Maksud saya, apakah nanti dia dapat bekerja?
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Will he be ablesanggup to be normalnormal?
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Apakah dia bisa menjadi orang normal?
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And, you know, as a parentinduk, especiallyterutama for the first time,
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Dan, Anda tahu, sebagai orang yang baru pertama kali menjadi orang tua,
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why is he not going to be better than us?
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mengapa dia tidak akan lebih baik dari kami?
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And this, indeedmemang, really is toughsulit to say,
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Dan hal ini benar-benar sangat sulit untuk diungkapkan,
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but a fewbeberapa monthsbulan laterkemudian, we realizedmenyadari that
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namun beberapa bulan kemudian, kami menyadari
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we were really feelingperasaan like a failurekegagalan.
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bahwa kami merasa seperti orang yang sudah gagal.
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I mean, the only realnyata productproduk of our life,
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Maksud saya, produk sejati dari hidup kami
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at the endakhir, was a failurekegagalan.
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pada akhirnya, adalah produk gagal.
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And you know, it was not a failurekegagalan for ourselvesdiri in itselfdiri,
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Dan Anda tahu, ini bukan hanya kegagalan bagi kami,
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but it was a failurekegagalan that will impactdampak his fullpenuh life.
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namun kegagalan yang akan berdampak pada seluruh hidupnya.
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HonestlyJujur, we wentpergi down.
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Jujur saja, kami merasa hancur.
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I mean we wentpergi really down, but at the endakhir,
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Kami benar-benar hancur, namun pada akhirnya
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we starteddimulai to look at him,
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kami mulai melihatnya,
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and we said, we have to reactreaksi.
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dan berkata, kami harus bertindak.
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So immediatelysegera, as FrancescaFrancesca said, we changedberubah our life.
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Jadi seperti yang telah dikatakan Francesca,
kami mengubah hidup kami.
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We starteddimulai physiotherapyFisioterapi, we starteddimulai the rehabilitationrehabilitasi,
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Kami mulai melakukan fisioterapi dan rehabilitasi,
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and one of the pathsjalan that we were followingberikut
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dan salah satu cara yang kami ikuti
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in termsistilah of rehabilitationrehabilitasi is the mirrorcermin neuronsneuron pilotpilot.
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dalam rehabilitasi ini adalah pilot cermin syaraf.
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BasicallyPada dasarnya, we spentmenghabiskan monthsbulan doing this with MarioMario.
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Kami menghabiskan berbulan-bulan
melakukannya bersama Mario.
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You have an objectobyek, and we showedmenunjukkan him
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Ada sebuah benda di sana dan
kami menunjukkan kepadanya
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how to grabmengambil the objectobyek.
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bagaimana mengambil benda itu.
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Now, the theoryteori of mirrorcermin neuronsneuron simplysecara sederhana saysmengatakan
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Kini, teori cermin syaraf mengatakan
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that in your brainsotak, exactlypersis now, as you watch me doing this,
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bahwa dalam otak Anda saat ini,
saat Anda melihat saya melakukan hal ini,
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you are activatingmengaktifkan exactlypersis the samesama neuronsneuron
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Anda mengaktifkan sel syaraf yang sama
dengan sel aktif
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as if you do the actionstindakan.
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ketika Anda melakukannya.
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It looksterlihat like this is the leadingterkemuka edgetepi in termsistilah of rehabilitationrehabilitasi.
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Tampaknya ini adalah hal terdepan dalam hal rehabilitasi.
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But one day we foundditemukan that MarioMario
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Namun suatu hari kami tahu bahwa Mario
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was not looking at our handtangan.
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tidak melihat tangan kami.
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He was looking at us.
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Dia melihat kami.
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We were his mirrorcermin.
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Kami adalah cermin baginya.
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And the problemmasalah, as you mightmungkin feel,
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Dan masalahnya, seperti yang Anda rasakan
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is that we were down, we were depressedmurung,
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adalah kami menjadi depresi,
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we were looking at him as a problemmasalah,
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kami melihatnya sebagai masalah kami,
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not as a sonputra, not from a positivepositif perspectiveperspektif.
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bukan putra kami, bukan dari sudut pandang yang positif.
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And that day really changedberubah our perspectiveperspektif.
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Dan hari itu benar-benar mengubah sudut pandang kami.
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We realizedmenyadari that we had to becomemenjadi
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Kami menyadari bahwa kami harus menjadi
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a better mirrorcermin for MarioMario.
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cermin yang lebih baik bagi Mario.
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We restartedrestart from our strengthskekuatan,
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Kami memulai kembali dari kekuatan kami,
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and at the samesama time we restartedrestart from his strengthskekuatan.
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dan pada saat yang sama kami mulai dari kekuatannya.
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We stoppedberhenti looking at him as a problemmasalah,
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Kami berhenti melihat dirinya sebagai masalah
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and we starteddimulai to look at him as an opportunitykesempatan to improvememperbaiki.
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dan mulai melihat dirinya sebagai
kesempatan untuk menjadi lebih baik.
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And really, this was the changeperubahan,
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Dan hal ini sungguh menjadi sebuah perubahan,
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and from our sidesisi, we said,
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dan kami berkata,
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"What are our strengthskekuatan that we really can bringmembawa to MarioMario?"
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"Apa kekuatan yang dapat kami bawa untuk Mario?"
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And we starteddimulai from our passionsgairah.
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Kami memulai dari gairah kami,
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I mean, at the endakhir, my wifeistri and myselfdiri
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maksud saya, pada akhirnya, saya dan istri saya
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are quitecukup differentberbeda,
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cukup berbeda,
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but we have manybanyak things in commonumum.
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namun memiliki banyak kesamaan.
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We love to travelperjalanan, we love musicmusik,
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Kami menyukai tamasya, musik,
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we love to be in placestempat like this,
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dan suka berada di tempat-tempat seperti ini,
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and we starteddimulai to bringmembawa MarioMario with us
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dan kami mulai membawa Mario bersama kami
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just to showmenunjukkan to him the bestterbaik things that we can showmenunjukkan to him.
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untuk menunjukkan hal terbaik
yang dapat kami tunjukkan kepada dirinya.
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This shortpendek videovideo is from last weekminggu.
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Video singkat ini kami ambil minggu lalu.
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I am not sayingpepatah --
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Saya tidak mengatakan --
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(ApplauseTepuk tangan) —
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(Tepuk tangan) --
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I am not sayingpepatah it's a miraclekeajaiban. That's not the messagepesan,
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Saya tidak mengatakan ini adalah keajaiban.
Bukan itu pesannya,
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because we are just at the beginningawal of the pathjalan.
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karena kami baru saja berada di awal jalan ini.
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But we want to shareBagikan what was the keykunci learningbelajar,
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Namun kami ingin membagikan kunci pembelajaran
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the keykunci learningbelajar that MarioMario drovemelaju to us,
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yang dibawa Mario kepada kami,
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and it is to considermempertimbangkan what you have as a gifthadiah
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yaitu menganggap apa yang Anda miliki sebagai anugerah,
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and not only what you misskehilangan,
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dan bukan hanya apa Anda lewatkan,
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and to considermempertimbangkan what you misskehilangan just as an opportunitykesempatan.
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dan menganggap apa yang Anda lewatkan
hanya sebagai sebuah kesempatan.
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And this is the messagepesan that we want to shareBagikan with you.
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Dan inilah pesan yang ingin kami bagikan kepada Anda.
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This is why we are here.
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Inilah alasan kami berada di sini.
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MarioMario!
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Mario!
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And this is why --
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Dan inilah mengapa --
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(ApplauseTepuk tangan) —
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(Tepuk tangan) --
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And this is why
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Dan inilah mengapa
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we decidedmemutuskan to shareBagikan the bestterbaik mirrorcermin in the worlddunia with him.
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kami memutuskan untuk berbagi cermin terbaik di dunia dengannya.
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And we thank you so much, all of you.
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Terima kasih banyak kepada Anda semua.
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FFFF: Thank you.
RDRD: Thank you. ByeDah.
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FF: Terima kasih.
RD: Terima kasih. Sampai jumpa.
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(ApplauseTepuk tangan)
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(Tepuk tangan)
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FFFF: Thank you. (ApplauseTepuk tangan)
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FF: Terima kasih. (Tepuk tangan)
Translated by Antonius Yudi Sendjaja
Reviewed by Caroline Effendy

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Roberto D'Angelo + Francesca Fedeli - Parents
Roberto D'Angelo and Francesca Fedeli created the social enterprise FightTheStroke.org to open up a dialogue about the devastating effects of strokes at a young age. This issue is important to them for a simple reason: because they've been through it themselves with their son Mario.

Why you should listen

When Roberto D'Angelo and Francesca Fedeli’s son, Mario, was just 10 days old, he was diagnosed as having had a perinatal stroke in the right side of his brain, which left him unable to move the left side of his body. Through mirror neuron rehabilitation, Mario is now 5 years old and has greatly improved motion.

The tech-savvy couple founded FightTheStroke.org to gather and share the experiences of families who have been affected by all types of infant and childhood strokes. The social movement wants to open up a dialogue about the devastating effects of this traumatic event, advocating for young stroke survivors and using technology and open medicine as enablers for their better future. Together, as a family, they’re promoting the awareness of this story as motivational speakers at events like TED, they're proud ambassaros of TEDMED in Italy and promoters of the first Medicine Hackathon in Italy, aimed to regroup the leading experts on Medicine and Innovation. Roberto is Director for Online Learning at Microsoft Italy, while Francesca currently focuses her management expertise in the FightTheStroke.org project, and they are developing an innovative rehabilitation platform based on Mirror Neurons. Francesca also acts as a member of various Board of Patients Associations, became an Eisenhower Fellow in 2014 and the first Ashoka Fellow in Italy in 2015.

 

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Roberto D'Angelo + Francesca Fedeli | Speaker | TED.com