[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
my mom and dad have never heard my voice
but I like to see me singing in the car
they couldn’t listen to Melanie’s
interview on the radio but they were
proud that other 60,000 people could
after the interview I went straight to
my parents and translate everything in
sign language it doesn’t matter how you
listen all that matters is that you
truly listen today I will share with you
some lessons I have learned about
listening from Deaf world both of my
parents were burned as hearing persons
my dad remembers playing with his toy
car and the sounds made boom boom boom
as he was driving with it but all that
slap now is the memory of the sound he
was three years old he got sick the
pneumonia in order to cure the sickness
he was given medicine unfortunately
doctors could not save his auditory
nerve which caused his loss of ability
to hear my mother had a similar destiny
she was born prematurely her mother was
then asked what others would call a
dilemma but for her a heartbreaking
choice whether to save the life of her
child or ability to hear but my granny’s
choice was clear she said it’s better
she lives and hears in different way
rather dies in my arms so my dad still
remembers the sound of a driving car
McCann no longer make it himself neither
does my mother they both lost the most
of what we are so used in our daily
lives the ability to hear and with that
it marked life path of my parents and
also mine knowing and experiencing all
those things that a normal child does
not have
made me feel special among other kids
but then I realized I’m not alone there
are more of us Coda’s or children of
deaf adults I was learning how to spell
cochlear implant long before I mastered
the word house once my parents took me
to a store where I saw a very little but
beautiful doll I wanted my mom my mom of
course asked me if I can help her to
talk salesman of course I did
sorry could you please tell me how much
good that doll silence and then oh my
look at that child so little but so
grown-up your parents must be very proud
of you
well I must admit I was very happy that
my parents judge me everywhere I went so
I could translate for them it is in
truth also every big responsibility for
us Coda’s we have to tell our parents
what the world sounds like we try to
interpret the sound of a singing bird
sound of a car engine or whether the
customer service lady is nice on the
phone or not in some way my career
choice was almost inevitable I became a
sign language interpreter although I
made a conscious choice at age 21 I was
doing this job since I was 3 years old
that’s when I remember becoming fluent
in sign language my second mother tongue
or other mother hand being raised by
deaf parents taught me so many things
first I learned to love others people’s
eyes I adored to make eye contact
why because they listen with eyes if I
want to know what my mom says to me I
must see her face her hands listen to
her emotions her voice the sound she
makes and when I make an eye contact I
give a clear message I’m listening
carefully and do you know what else I’ll
have to do read
the awards you see all of us are like
books we can be read without speaking
out about how we feel or what we think
once while doing my job I had to go to
court a deaf person was arrested for
murder
and the court reviewed the case of
course the judge read out the defendants
rights and obligations and there was a
very strict or some my interpreting was
strict as well I was concentrating on
how the judge was acting so I made clear
to deaf person her situation is serious
suddenly the person I was translating to
wasn’t looking at me anymore but gazing
around of course I could try to draw his
attention back to me but that would mean
that I’m not concentrating on what judge
says the deaf person was arrested
finally for murder at that moment my
duty was to focus exclusively on deaf
men sitting in the court in front of all
those people who decide what kind of
punishment to order to dark criminal
takes all of my attention because I must
see him I must express his emotions as
if they were mine in order to convey a
correct message between two worlds deaf
and hearing and also his body language
helped me not to get lost in
translations and emotions like I almost
did once I had to take a deaf person to
the doctor’s we waited in the line we
watched all those people who were
sitting with their smile on the face and
we were looking about we are talking
about whether outside finally we got in
the examination room hello my name is
Elsa I’m a sign language interpreter
this is baibi she’s deaf so today I will
help you to understand each other
gender questions were asked blood
samples are analyzed and then doctor
looked at me at baibi gave her something
maybe I was left speechless because my
job was to take that situation as
moisture as I could and interpret
everything in the conversation and of
course would aside my own opinion but I
didn’t I told the patient everything yes
sometimes it takes me to be brave enough
to do the right thing though it may be
unprofessional talking about braveness
warm spring day I went to the store with
my mom we took a bus and in front of the
seats of the bus there are a bunch of
kids after a few seconds they noticed
that me and my mom are using a sign
language after again few seconds they
tried to copy it like they were marking
it but it was very wrong so yes you can
be a clown but I was brave enough to go
to them and offer help Hey
perhaps I may help you how to use the
sign language so one day you could speak
to real deaf men children were shocked
and then able to utter a word and now I
wish to teach you something but first I
need a volunteer anyone no great I will
wait so please please don’t look at a
magazine watch me and we paid off to me
hello everybody everybody nice nice to
me you doing really great
that’s your fee should I repeat yeah of
course huh hello nice to me you
great except one thing the sign you
gonna go away so next time when you meet
a deaf person be brave talk to them pay
a very close attention to the body
language and eye contact and try to
listen thank you [Applause]
[Applause]
[Music]
my mom and dad have never heard my voice
but I like to see me singing in the car
they couldn’t listen to Melanie’s
interview on the radio but they were
proud that other 60,000 people could
after the interview I went straight to
my parents and translate everything in
sign language it doesn’t matter how you
listen all that matters is that you
truly listen today I will share with you
some lessons I have learned about
listening from Deaf world both of my
parents were burned as hearing persons
my dad remembers playing with his toy
car and the sounds made boom boom boom
as he was driving with it but all that
slap now is the memory of the sound he
was three years old he got sick the
pneumonia in order to cure the sickness
he was given medicine unfortunately
doctors could not save his auditory
nerve which caused his loss of ability
to hear my mother had a similar destiny
she was born prematurely her mother was
then asked what others would call a
dilemma but for her a heartbreaking
choice whether to save the life of her
child or ability to hear but my granny’s
choice was clear she said it’s better
she lives and hears in different way
rather dies in my arms so my dad still
remembers the sound of a driving car
McCann no longer make it himself neither
does my mother they both lost the most
of what we are so used in our daily
lives the ability to hear and with that
it marked life path of my parents and
also mine knowing and experiencing all
those things that a normal child does
not have
made me feel special among other kids
but then I realized I’m not alone there
are more of us Coda’s or children of
deaf adults I was learning how to spell
cochlear implant long before I mastered
the word house once my parents took me
to a store where I saw a very little but
beautiful doll I wanted my mom my mom of
course asked me if I can help her to
talk salesman of course I did
sorry could you please tell me how much
good that doll silence and then oh my
look at that child so little but so
grown-up your parents must be very proud
of you
well I must admit I was very happy that
my parents judge me everywhere I went so
I could translate for them it is in
truth also every big responsibility for
us Coda’s we have to tell our parents
what the world sounds like we try to
interpret the sound of a singing bird
sound of a car engine or whether the
customer service lady is nice on the
phone or not in some way my career
choice was almost inevitable I became a
sign language interpreter although I
made a conscious choice at age 21 I was
doing this job since I was 3 years old
that’s when I remember becoming fluent
in sign language my second mother tongue
or other mother hand being raised by
deaf parents taught me so many things
first I learned to love others people’s
eyes I adored to make eye contact
why because they listen with eyes if I
want to know what my mom says to me I
must see her face her hands listen to
her emotions her voice the sound she
makes and when I make an eye contact I
give a clear message I’m listening
carefully and do you know what else I’ll
have to do read
the awards you see all of us are like
books we can be read without speaking
out about how we feel or what we think
once while doing my job I had to go to
court a deaf person was arrested for
murder
and the court reviewed the case of
course the judge read out the defendants
rights and obligations and there was a
very strict or some my interpreting was
strict as well I was concentrating on
how the judge was acting so I made clear
to deaf person her situation is serious
suddenly the person I was translating to
wasn’t looking at me anymore but gazing
around of course I could try to draw his
attention back to me but that would mean
that I’m not concentrating on what judge
says the deaf person was arrested
finally for murder at that moment my
duty was to focus exclusively on deaf
men sitting in the court in front of all
those people who decide what kind of
punishment to order to dark criminal
takes all of my attention because I must
see him I must express his emotions as
if they were mine in order to convey a
correct message between two worlds deaf
and hearing and also his body language
helped me not to get lost in
translations and emotions like I almost
did once I had to take a deaf person to
the doctor’s we waited in the line we
watched all those people who were
sitting with their smile on the face and
we were looking about we are talking
about whether outside finally we got in
the examination room hello my name is
Elsa I’m a sign language interpreter
this is baibi she’s deaf so today I will
help you to understand each other
gender questions were asked blood
samples are analyzed and then doctor
looked at me at baibi gave her something
maybe I was left speechless because my
job was to take that situation as
moisture as I could and interpret
everything in the conversation and of
course would aside my own opinion but I
didn’t I told the patient everything yes
sometimes it takes me to be brave enough
to do the right thing though it may be
unprofessional talking about braveness
warm spring day I went to the store with
my mom we took a bus and in front of the
seats of the bus there are a bunch of
kids after a few seconds they noticed
that me and my mom are using a sign
language after again few seconds they
tried to copy it like they were marking
it but it was very wrong so yes you can
be a clown but I was brave enough to go
to them and offer help Hey
perhaps I may help you how to use the
sign language so one day you could speak
to real deaf men children were shocked
and then able to utter a word and now I
wish to teach you something but first I
need a volunteer anyone no great I will
wait so please please don’t look at a
magazine watch me and we paid off to me
hello everybody everybody nice nice to
me you doing really great
that’s your fee should I repeat yeah of
course huh hello nice to me you
great except one thing the sign you
gonna go away so next time when you meet
a deaf person be brave talk to them pay
a very close attention to the body
language and eye contact and try to
listen thank you [Applause]
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