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Protecting and Interpreting Deaf Culture | Glenna Cooper | TEDxTulsaCC

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2017 ж. 21 Мам.
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Deaf advocate Glenna Cooper shares her personal journey as a Deaf child of hearing parents who were told to avoid teaching their daughter sign language. Glenna shares insight into Deaf culture, including why it's not considered rude to tell someone their new hairstyle isn't flattering. You'll also learn about a cutting edge movement in interpretation that pairs Deaf with hearing interpreters.
Glenna Cooper is Assistant Professor and Department Chair for American Sign Language Education, English As Second Language, and World Language at Tulsa Community College. She was one of a few Deaf nationally certified instructors to provide Deaf Culture training to emergency responders in 40 states. Although she is Deaf, ASL was not her first language. Instead, she learned to speak and lipread English first which presented many challenges.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

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  • As a CODA, Child of Deaf Adults, when she fingerspelled C-O-D-A, it was not interpreted and the audience missed out on learning about how hearing children of Deaf parents became came the first interpreters for the Deaf community.

    @i.love2aslvideos90@i.love2aslvideos904 жыл бұрын

    • Good catch! I missed it myself

      @mysanityizgone4576@mysanityizgone45763 жыл бұрын

    • Thank you!

      @3nertia@3nertia2 жыл бұрын

    • Thank you for sharing!

      @fuzbcuz7613@fuzbcuz76132 жыл бұрын

    • I had to go back, because I missed that too. Thank you!

      @MiamiBeachDrew@MiamiBeachDrew Жыл бұрын

    • I didn‘t miss it, even though the word CODA was not mentioned. It was explained!

      @samalsrei5089@samalsrei5089 Жыл бұрын

  • The five stages of good bye had me laughing so hard. My grandmother and uncles are deaf and so my entire family has embraced the deaf community and this is really true. The interpreters we interact with will stay hours and still talk from their car.

    @alannagarner2923@alannagarner29233 жыл бұрын

  • My mom and dad are deaf. God bless the deaf 💕

    @jamespratt7627@jamespratt76274 жыл бұрын

  • I'm a hearing person, trying to learn ASL (for my hearing baby, but he's 6 months and I know that his speaking journey may be facilitated by communicating via ASL in the interim). I am utterly horrified to learn about the forced lip-reading "education", and not allowing the use of sign language to communicate in 1880. It makes me admire the efforts made by the Gallaudet professor to push sign language to be established as a language unto itself, rather than a direct translation. I can speak both English and Thai, so I already know that traversing the barrier between languages can be difficult. While learning ASL, I'll keep in mind that it's a process of learning a new language - not just translating English with body language. I can only hope to not be offensive in my efforts to learn ASL, since I have no actual link to the deaf community other than wanting to communicate with my hearing baby.

    @maybpandacat5989@maybpandacat59894 жыл бұрын

  • I love the interpreter's affect in this presentation. It's very on point and matches so well with the consumer's facial expressions.

    @Elaini.Young24@Elaini.Young243 жыл бұрын

    • she had a script but she did very well

      @radasez@radasez3 жыл бұрын

    • My point Actually

      @danlimkin8265@danlimkin82653 жыл бұрын

  • I wish the people operating the cameras would not use the wide view when the presenter is using ASL! This video is high quality, but signs are too small to understand on my phone half the time.

    @Outfit.Tipper@Outfit.Tipper6 жыл бұрын

    • I agree, I like watching the presentation without dubs to see how much I understand, but I couldn't because of the awkward camera angles.

      @kayleemiddlebrook7305@kayleemiddlebrook73056 жыл бұрын

    • All you have to do is to watch it on desktop or notbook computer and click on full screen icon. I see everything what she signed just fine.

      @InTeCredo@InTeCredo6 жыл бұрын

    • Some people only have a phone.

      @slowfire2@slowfire25 жыл бұрын

    • I know it's not ideal, but why not activate the subtitles?

      @eiterpet@eiterpet5 жыл бұрын

    • I'm enjoying her speech and then the camera pulls away. What?! It's a visual language.

      @jeremytasl4881@jeremytasl48815 жыл бұрын

  • I just changed my major to ASL and this is going to be my first ASL teacher. I'm so excited!

    @saraspringer9489@saraspringer94893 жыл бұрын

  • After 20 years I’m remembering an elementary classmate who had deaf parents. I was so fascinated by his ability to sign. Jealous, even. I want to learn now in my adulthood. His name was Noah. He was tall and had freckles. Wherever you are, I hope you and your folks are doing well🤟🏻

    @Yobydobie@Yobydobie8 ай бұрын

  • Awesome speech, I have been learning ASL for about 2 years, I'm now in my third year, and I remember thinking how unfair it was for Deaf people to struggle to communicate. That's why I want to continue learning ASL, so Deaf people won't have to struggle to understand me. (But my skill isn't great, so they might struggle to understand me anyways :))

    @kayleemiddlebrook7305@kayleemiddlebrook73056 жыл бұрын

  • amazed at the inaccuracy of the subtitles for the speaking narrator in a video about deafness

    @otrerawhycraft6341@otrerawhycraft63417 ай бұрын

  • What a fabulous sharing of culture and history and struggle (and overcoming). I even learned a new sign for "culture"! I attended Gallaudet and work at a Deaf school so I knew most of the history you shared, but it was wonderful to be reminded of it all and increase my appreciation for the Deaf world. Well done!

    @mariedickinson3149@mariedickinson31496 жыл бұрын

  • You are an inspiration. I learned things I never knew about deaf culture - namely, that there IS a deaf culture, and all the nuances ingrained in it. Thank you for raising my awareness!

    @michaelmerryman99@michaelmerryman997 жыл бұрын

  • this is very educational for me. I am a resident of two worlds. The speaking world and the deaf. To learn that a vote was taken in 1880 to separate the deaf and hearing world. The speaking world is a very noisy place. To wonder what might have been.

    @toymanmark@toymanmark5 жыл бұрын

  • Thank you for this wonderful presentation Glenna Campbell.

    @user-fd3fb7hb1v@user-fd3fb7hb1v6 ай бұрын

  • Extremely well done!! I am going to share you TedTalk with my DHH students

    @teresaohira5053@teresaohira50536 жыл бұрын

  • 5:04 this lady's sense of humor is awesome! Man, i found the long dialogue so adorable haha, might copy that the next time i'm late to class.

    @lienhoa_12@lienhoa_12 Жыл бұрын

  • This was so great!! I didnt know about this history either. Deaf and and hearing one world!!!

    @jilliandiaz7534@jilliandiaz75344 жыл бұрын

  • I learned a lot in the last 15min, it also gave yet another reason to teach children sign even if they are hearing

    @ciannacoleman5125@ciannacoleman51253 жыл бұрын

  • the more i learn about deaf culture the more it seems stranger to have children learn Spanish or french in school instead of ASL when ASL is just as much a American language as Spanish. why then is it not offered and latin and french are? Nonsense

    @davidmutchock9261@davidmutchock92613 жыл бұрын

  • This video is spot-on. Love it.

    @aslnomad5158@aslnomad51583 жыл бұрын

  • This is the problem with some hearing ppl. I can hear but it's not like I'd say to a deaf person, "You can't learn sign language; you need to fit in with the 'hearing community' and you'd be isolated from them..." This is what I don't understand. Why can't there be just 1 community where all ppl can be accepted as they are as person, no matter what the differences are? Why are blind and deaf ppl shunned so often and so little are recognized as People? Some ppl treat/look at the deaf and blind like they're aliens. It makes me sick! If ppl have a problem with you learning sign language/ braille they're isolating themselves from you, not the other way around. I myself am learning sign language becuase for a long time, I've been interested in the language. I've always found it interesting and I'd like to communicate with other deaf/hoh (hard of hearing) ppl and teach others. I also have anxiety issues/disorder and sometimes it's hard for me to even start a convo and, more often than not, keep a convo flowing with someone verbally. It makes me sad and I feel sign language is another gate; an open door to see me through and help me feel more comfortable and confident, especially when I'm trying to speak my mind about a particular subject and I can't come up with the right words I want to say. It's frustrating and sign language is a blessing. Deaf and blind ppl can do just as much as hearing/seeing can, even more than we can do ourselves. Never limit ppl based on what they don't have compared to you/others.

    @AngelinaSkylove_719@AngelinaSkylove_7193 жыл бұрын

  • I learned how to finger spell back in the 70's, going to a school where two brothers were deaf, and I wanted to be able to communicate with them as I saw how isolated they were. Now, some 40 + years later, I am trying to learn ASL, as I am now hard of hearing, and find myself with one foot inside the deaf culture now. I see the advantage of what you describe, where all communicate with ASL. But I'm running into a roadblock on my quest for better communication skills. The deaf community appears to have also isolated themselves. I would have thought there would be groups of deaf putting together classes for those like myself and hearing people to go and learn. It's as though the deaf community has gone underground.

    @1lightdweller@1lightdweller6 жыл бұрын

    • 1lightdweller there are many deaf people offering tutoring, you just need to look

      @realmofthemisunderstood166@realmofthemisunderstood1665 жыл бұрын

    • I promise you, you can find deaf people and deaf events if you look, THAT is how you learn, that’s greatly how I did

      @realmofthemisunderstood166@realmofthemisunderstood1665 жыл бұрын

    • I also think that deaf populations of any size are particularly region specific (mostly around deaf schools). if you're having trouble finding tutors it may be because there aren't any deaf people around. where I come from, I've never met anyone who was deaf but I live in a suburb of eastern mass with no schools for hours.

      @davidmacdonald9159@davidmacdonald91594 жыл бұрын

  • I thought it was terrible how the delegates voted against SL. It really is crazy to think about what the world would look like if that had never happened. What sort of great doctors, inventors, authors, or speakers did we miss out on simply because we would not give them the ability to learn capably and communicate?

    @liamhunt3374@liamhunt33743 жыл бұрын

  • Well-said!! Your speech was awesome. That was an interesting perspective if 1880 in Milan never happen then what will we, deaf, become of this. Great job!

    @NinaTexas04@NinaTexas047 жыл бұрын

    • There are actually doing Great you know

      @danlimkin8265@danlimkin82653 жыл бұрын

  • Beautiful said n I’m looking forward to serve deaf community as deaf interpreter

    @keriwelchel168@keriwelchel1684 жыл бұрын

  • Thanks. This talk was great. Thanks.

    @samalsrei5089@samalsrei5089 Жыл бұрын

  • Great presentation!

    @chriswixtrom6514@chriswixtrom65143 жыл бұрын

  • Wonderful Ted Talks!! The Deaf culture is friendly & funny especially their jokes.

    @JoAnn4gracenotperfectionm815@JoAnn4gracenotperfectionm8153 жыл бұрын

    • That’s so True smile

      @danlimkin8265@danlimkin82653 жыл бұрын

  • Speech was awesome

    @jenniferbeck4936@jenniferbeck49364 жыл бұрын

  • Wow! that's all I can say. Very interesting. At my age I might never be fluent but I'm really enjoying learning ASL.

    @marisac.5303@marisac.53032 жыл бұрын

  • Deaf people are some of the most human humans

    @3nertia@3nertia2 жыл бұрын

  • Excellent watch. Highly recommend. 🤟

    @NVRainbowmaker@NVRainbowmaker2 жыл бұрын

  • I am learning ASL, for a variety of reasons. For one, I have a genetic disease that may cause progressive deafness, and I am already a bit hard of hearing (I'm 17). Also, its a beautiful language and will enable me to connect with more people. Plus, it just makes so much more sense to me. I have audio processing disorder which makes understanding oral language a bit difficult. I'm a visual learner and I have picked up more ASL than I did French in 3 years of formal classes. I have spent minimal time learning ASL on my own. I'm trying to learn more about deaf culture and the history of ASL in addition to the language itself.

    @renbaker5124@renbaker51248 ай бұрын

  • Thank you for this interesting, lively and informative presentation!

    @chriswixtrom6514@chriswixtrom65144 жыл бұрын

    • I Can actually Go on and on watching this

      @danlimkin8265@danlimkin82653 жыл бұрын

    • @@danlimkin8265 Yes!

      @chriswixtrom6514@chriswixtrom65143 жыл бұрын

    • @@chriswixtrom6514 Nice too meet you I’m Dan limkin From Long Beach California and you ?

      @danlimkin8265@danlimkin82653 жыл бұрын

  • Love this

    @AQ-uc4bb@AQ-uc4bb2 жыл бұрын

  • Hope to learn ASL soonest so I could communicate with deaf community. I also want to "hear" their stories by learning their language.

    @annalarcon4593@annalarcon45935 ай бұрын

    • Even though I am BSL but think you’re good motivations definitely learn ASL ♥️ 🥰

      @clairee4939@clairee49393 ай бұрын

  • am hearing sign language interpreter and i enjoy deaf culture for their openness and details. I do ksl with alittle asl .

    @carolynerobista7278@carolynerobista72784 жыл бұрын

  • Well signed (said), Glenna! I am sharing your valuable information to Saskatchewan Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services for hearing parents of Deaf child(ren) to learn about. Saskatchewan is the most suppressive province in Canada where AGB has been deliberately depriving visual communication and social life from Deaf children. Thanks to the provincial's budget cut recently the organization named Saskatchewan Pediatric Auditory Rehabilitation Centre (SPARC) will be closed on July 1st, 2017. The hearing parents have been experiencing humiliation, being threatened, confusion, and receiving misconception from SPARC for years. Thank you, Glenna!

    @alertbayDeafboy@alertbayDeafboy7 жыл бұрын

    • That's so sad, I hope your petition goes well!

      @kayleemiddlebrook7305@kayleemiddlebrook73056 жыл бұрын

  • Brilliant 💚🤟🏼

    @LivingProcess@LivingProcess2 жыл бұрын

  • That was good!

    @suzannehedderly1331@suzannehedderly13314 жыл бұрын

  • Love ASL

    @jayrico5818@jayrico58183 жыл бұрын

  • I felt sick when she talked about the delegates voting to forbid sign language.

    @gracemelone3974@gracemelone39743 жыл бұрын

  • I love the interpreter

    @vijayradha8898@vijayradha88982 жыл бұрын

  • I do wish she had actually said CODA instead of glossing over it. It would have been good for the audience to have access to that. Otherwise I think she did a great job!! :-)

    @marshallharris3872@marshallharris38722 жыл бұрын

  • Can you provide? More Deaf American Sign Language ASL Singers on TED in August 2024

    @samgold9151@samgold915110 ай бұрын

  • Hi I am deaf and this is all true and I never was forced to learn to lip read my grandma died and all I did was ask questions about what happened and the doctor told my mom " is she autistic?." I got really affended when my mom signed to me what the doctor said. my mom told the doctor that I was deaf and we left and I will never forget that day

    @tianabalas1378@tianabalas137810 ай бұрын

  • Hahaha do they shut the lights off so you can't talk/see each other's signs? My family is hearing but we also take a long time to leave places. I was always waiting for my parents at the end as a kids.

    @rileywiebe3512@rileywiebe35122 жыл бұрын

  • I know this was a lot of work, but the result is awesome!

    @lwhitman57@lwhitman577 жыл бұрын

  • Did anyone else notice when (story starts at 7:10) Glenna was telling about the earliest use of sign language, the interpreter (at 7:50) said "American" Sign Language. Oops... the story date was 427 BCE.

    @MiamiBeachDrew@MiamiBeachDrew Жыл бұрын

  • Interesting, the only type of Deaf interpreters I've seen are those who know 2 or more country's sign language ( for instance BSL to ASL). I've never seen an interpreter team in the way this wonderful person described it. Also, 1880...very sad.

    @hannahrosereviews5073@hannahrosereviews50736 жыл бұрын

    • Me Either But this is interesting

      @danlimkin8265@danlimkin82653 жыл бұрын

  • no no no..thank you..thank you for sharing your world

    @pipermoonshine3281@pipermoonshine3281 Жыл бұрын

  • She is right.

    @MohamedMohamed-ex7er@MohamedMohamed-ex7er2 жыл бұрын

  • I’m doing this for online school

    @jeniferromero8929@jeniferromero89293 жыл бұрын

    • I have to write down what she is saying.

      @jeniferromero8929@jeniferromero89293 жыл бұрын

    • Same but I’m in person lmao

      @flynn7453@flynn74533 жыл бұрын

  • 7:49 sign language** not american sign language. somehow i doubt the ancient greeks were super into the 4th of july and hot dogs back in 400 bc 😭

    @aoife.@aoife.2 жыл бұрын

  • Awesome talk but sometimes it is hard to see what she is signing when the camera zooms out which is a tad frustrating

    @mariaelizabeth6066@mariaelizabeth60664 жыл бұрын

  • If the number of people keep losing their hearing at the rate that experts report. Then one day in a couple of more generations from now we may all be deaf, from the noisy world we live in. Unlike our great great great grandparents time when it was way less noisy than today.

    @gotobassmsn@gotobassmsn10 күн бұрын

  • Can you provide? More Deaf Japanese Sign Language JSL Singers on TED in February 2026

    @samgold9151@samgold915110 ай бұрын

  • The camera perspective switches aren't visually as accessible as the audio. It was hard to watch Glenna be so zoomed out suddenly... Love the *inclusivity* but wish it was more visually inclusive for those listening with their eyes, not listening with their ears then letting the visual follow ;)

    @user-jw7rb8bv2t@user-jw7rb8bv2t Жыл бұрын

  • Can you add subtitles please. The KZhead auto-generated captions is a little bit hinky.

    @signwithcj1127@signwithcj11276 жыл бұрын

    • Look for the three dots under the video in KZhead. Click on the dots. Click "open transcript"

      @chriswixtrom6514@chriswixtrom65143 жыл бұрын

    • @@chriswixtrom6514 I'm not asking for a transcript. I'm asking for Subtitles.

      @signwithcj1127@signwithcj11273 жыл бұрын

    • @@signwithcj1127 Yes subtitles would be best! I just want to let you know that KZhead video "transcripts" are on-screen running transcripts. A running transcript is timed to match the voicing.

      @chriswixtrom6514@chriswixtrom65143 жыл бұрын

  • Wow! that is aLOVE IT .....I have to say that I live in the US and I live in Oregon and that I communicate with my deaF friends every day on Skype and it's a wonderful and I don't think that only that is it is a beautiful language but it's a communication tool I have a very open mind and I love to communicate with any and everybody and I wish the Americans they're hearing forgive but think about the perspective of Deaf culture please be kind of one another be kind to one another and help share this good information of American sign language are even in English in American Sign Language deaf people have minds and hearts and have kids and family please please be kind and try to learn the language it's a fun thing to do I know American Sign Language and there's nothing wrong with it at person or the language if something wrong with American people's attitude and opinion your opinion will Define who you are and always will and if you have an open mind and be nice and kind of learn something of sign language which it all could be so cool deaf in American Sign Language it's okay to be deaf

    @5281940@52819404 жыл бұрын

    • Thank you so much for saying this I’m learning to be an interpreter I’m taking my first two classes

      @jinx4life316@jinx4life3163 жыл бұрын

  • I have to say as a hearing impaired/deaf person who does not sign that I disagree with her on one point: We cannot do everything that a hearing person can: hearing a car coming up behind us when riding a bike, emergency vehicles with sirens behind the car I’m driving, the noise that a bull moose makes when charging me from behind, the speech the pilot or flight attendants give before taking off in a plane…just saying, no, deaf people cannot do everything that hearing people can. Like be a police officer. Or a commercial pilot. And the ROTUS position - when one thinks of a receptionist, one thinks she’s answering the phone, the deaf receptionist was more of a greeter to people coming in and giving tours of the west wing.

    @virginiareynolds6296@virginiareynolds6296 Жыл бұрын

  • Can you provide? More Blind American English Language Speaker on TED in October 2025

    @samgold9151@samgold915110 ай бұрын

  • Can you provide? More Blind Japanese Language Speaker on TED in May 2026

    @samgold9151@samgold915110 ай бұрын

  • Chan brought me here.

    @oldschooltakingyaback@oldschooltakingyaback5 жыл бұрын

  • what she's saying was almost verbatim from a documentary by Thomas Holcomb....

    @ambermarie6763@ambermarie67633 жыл бұрын

    • and she's using stuff from through deaf eyes documentary...

      @ambermarie6763@ambermarie67633 жыл бұрын

  • Hello? Can you tell me who was your Interpreter? Name Please?

    @Lala-cd5oj@Lala-cd5oj Жыл бұрын

  • This need interpreter all not more than use because deaf & HH , blind & deaf our sign language equally all any people's learn forbid sign language must best.. Interpreter not use value important..

    @janardhandeaf4861@janardhandeaf48613 жыл бұрын

  • Lousy photography - I can't see the signing.

    @cmarin7560@cmarin75604 жыл бұрын

  • Deaf me 🤗 hugs Keith Ohio 🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟

    @keithmiller252@keithmiller2522 жыл бұрын

    • Aww Hi Keith Deaf from the UK

      @clairee4939@clairee4939 Жыл бұрын

  • Imagine a world without music.

    @fuckyouyoutube7921@fuckyouyoutube79214 жыл бұрын

  • 7:48 that wouldn’t be the earliest use of American Sign Language, just sign language. I don’t like this interpreter

    @NotaScrimp@NotaScrimp Жыл бұрын

  • Sign language is ableist towards people with no hands.

    @heelFLiP249@heelFLiP2494 жыл бұрын

  • I am a professor at a community college. I had motivation to learn ASL but from the your video, I feel that you are not encouraging hearing individuals to learn ASL.

    @counseling3863@counseling38632 жыл бұрын

  • The first documented use of AMERICAN Sign Language was by Plato? Are you sure it was AMERICAN? And if this woman thinks we would all be signing if things went differently in 1880, she is off her head.

    @josefk5659@josefk56593 жыл бұрын

    • She didn’t sign “American Sign Language” or ASL just “sign”. That was a mistake of the interpreter.

      @annstropes2236@annstropes22362 жыл бұрын

  • the culture of the cursed

    @coldfact58@coldfact585 жыл бұрын

    • Roy Rodrick shut up, deaf people are not “cursed”

      @realmofthemisunderstood166@realmofthemisunderstood1665 жыл бұрын

    • @@realmofthemisunderstood166 Trust me we are the dammed and cursed nothing but a comedy to the rest of humanity. Gods rejects

      @coldfact58@coldfact585 жыл бұрын

    • Roy Rodrick wft no, Haha. What a sad outlook on life.

      @missflower6142@missflower61424 жыл бұрын

    • @@coldfact58 pretty much. But try to smile, tho.

      @mysanityizgone4576@mysanityizgone45763 жыл бұрын

  • So take away a persons hearing at birth and the become blunt,rude ,a holes. Bring back eugenics

    @trashy10@trashy105 жыл бұрын

  • Love this

    @whitneyrose1369@whitneyrose13692 жыл бұрын
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