Not the hearing or Deaf world | Heather Artinian | TEDxGeorgetown
Heather Artinian is a student at Georgetown majoring in Government and minoring in Justice & Peace studies. Heather was the subject of an academy-award nominated documentary titled ‘Sound and Fury’. The documentary focuses on her family and their struggle to make a decision whether to give her, 5 years old at the time, a cochlear implant that would enable her to hear. Heather will share her journey through life; learning how to speak and hear, attending hearing schools, and being part of the deaf culture and the hearing world.
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I am also here to say I watch her on the documentary !!!! Woahhhhh love what she is now !! ❤❤❤ you go girl
@cristinagomez5067
Here for her sense of humor❤❤❤😊
@DuduyemiHood
She graduated from Harvard law school, but don’t hold that against her, she’s still smart.
@spankynater4242
Watched sound of fury for my introduction to inclusion education class. She could speak much then, did not know she was fully grown and could speak. I love her voice!🔥
@nizzismith4461
I used to watch "Sound And Fury" in ASL class with other students.
@jonasbrothersrockist
What a terrific young lady. Bless you!
@bbbbbbbbbill
I’m HOH – hard of hearing. I wear dual hearing aids and I sign. Since I can speak, my wife and children don’t sign.
If I tell the checker at the market I’m hard of hearing, they nod, smile and keep working and don’t interact. I tell the receptionist at my physician’s office that I’m hard of hearing, they nod, smile and almost shout their questions at me (I do tell them quietly that shouting doesn’t help).
If I attend a social event with Deaf and visit around with others, it becomes apparent
that I don’t sign as rapidly as they do. It becomes a short conversation and they turn to others who are faster than me (I can converse on just about any subject, my sign speed and accuracy is close to theirs) . It truly does position oneself in two different worlds…neither of which are completely welcoming.
@alanolson6913
I am glad she is where she wants to be. I hate they didn’t let her get it sooner though
@LoreDeluge
I live in Rochester ny 🤯
@Oliviavetter
We watched her movie “ sound and fury “ in ASL class and it was super good I loved the movie
@Oliviavetter
She is Super Cute. Very Attractive.
@perpetualpleasurist
My ASL professor showed us "Sound and Fury" recently and then directed us to Heather's Tedx Talk! I'm so glad to see she's doing well
@danielles3841
Brilliant young lady
@bbrmb2020
Deaf community members have expressed concerns for the message conveyed in this seminar.
@Kentbreef
if youre from africa why are you white
@codaakawie2690
Such an inspiration!
@Ksazanovich
Acabei de assistir ao documentário Som e fúria, devido a uma disciplina na graduação na Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) aqui no Brasil! Parabéns à Heather por toda a superação! Muito sucesso!
@LordMiaul
Noiceee
@nadusir1249
"They will be sorry." Girl went to HARVARD. HAR-VARD. And she's a lawyer in D.C. 👏👏👏
@samiwiegner8305
watching is video for my bioethics class and wow shes such a boss
@livya135
Some how i came across this and i remember a documentary of Sound and Fury show. Wow she was a cute young girl that sign and now look at this.. she all grown up and she not signing on this show… it seem like hearing people is taking over and leave deaf behind this.. i would stand on a sage, sign and talk the same time.
@nemodakidz6012
I fell in love with Heather decades ago when Sound & Fury came out and can't believe I never knew about this Ted Talk! I am so thrilled to see what she has done with her life. Her speech is amazing!! I want more!
@JustJessErin
we watched sound and fury in my class this week, and im so glad a classmate mentioned that heather also had a ted talk. even from the documentary she seemed like such a bright little kid and i’m so happy she was able to get more amazing opportunities!!
@mikaelablatus6293
Loved this talk!! Building bridges enables understanding and capacity. Just be you says it all!
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@sicongwang4392
she's such a huge inspiration to me wow
@trinitygardnerr
"Heather Artinian is an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Latham & Watkins, where she was a summer associate prior to joining Latham full-time." You go Heather! Inspiring so many 🙂
@MJ-gj6mj
Sound and Fury was on my list of dream documentaries to see for literally 20 years and I just saw it finally on YouTube of all places. I have a ton to say and unpack about the film but a YouTube comment section probably isn't the best place. There needs to be a legit follow up documentary. It would be absolutely fascinating and important on so many levels. This is the next best thing though and it only took me a second to realize who this is! Heather! 💜
I thinking about learning sign language…
@ryublueblanka
Awesome job. I want to be a part of the people reaching out and be on the bridge. I have signed up for ASL classes. That’s a beginning.
@louierichards8459
omg.. I just finished watching Sound & Fury today and it was a really really great documentary… I'm so proud of Heather that really brought me tears watching her speak in front of many hearing people
@cmllzz
Finally someone like me!! I was born with moderate hearing loss and lip read. I know up to level 2 of BSL from the Uk. I think my speech is like hers. I had deaf friends but no longer in contact so all family and friends are of hearing world.
@alicesigns793
Whatever your beliefs about cochlear implants, I would not be here in college getting my degree in speech pathology without the friends I've made who were deaf, who grew up with aids and implants. They were my initial reasons to wanting to become a speech therapist and to learn ASL, and they had become some of my best friends – I would not have known them without their being able to use speech, and I'm incredibly grateful that they were able to. I 100% support Heather's talk about building bridges and getting to know your own world, and the bridges between others.
@brynnaandersen7739
Hello Mrs. Cook's ASL CLASS!!!
@wateryposedion5235
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@elkmpas7336
Yasss!! Go Heather!
@shotaaizawa7569
Wonder if she’s ever met Heather Whitestone McCallum. I love the name Heather!
@emmarose4234
When I’m older, I want to adopt two deaf children from China. The thought of that excites me because as a hearing person, I’ll get to learn sign language and help them grow their deaf identity.
@dontmindme.imjustafraidofe9327
More people like Heather in the world, please. I just wish we could find out what happened to her little cousin, Peter from the first film. I hope it all turned out ok for him too.
@Ezinma88
Thank you for posting this, TEDx Talks! 😀
@writersblock26
I didn't need closed captioning to watch this. Well done
@xeff3280
The thing is the interpreter cost is a tax write off. I've had to tell many people who were interviewing me that they can claim the write off at tax time. I had to file a lawsuit that was ultimately dropped due to the people that I had the phone interview with lied to the lawyers and the judge at court time. Basically they freaked about the cost of an interpreter and claimed that I would need it every day at work. I tried to explain that I only need an interpreter at certain times like an interview and the orientation. After that, I'm good. I was going to work as a cnc router operator for that company manufacturing metal products. Prior to that, I was working at a company where I ran a half million dollar cnc router machine and cut out $30k-$100k of materials with basically ZERO errors. There was a mess up once and it was the cnc programmer's fault. That company was bought out and I was looking through available job openings for the company that had just bought us out at the human resources office (the person who was running that office was the same woman who had run the office prior to the take over) and I saw a job opening in which the person was assigned to go with the products that were manufactured to various trade shows and fairs all over the world and that person simply had to clean up the products each day after the crowds had gone. The HR lady sneered at me and said I would need a bachelor's degree for that job even though the job opening didn't say anything like that. Well, the joke's on her. I graduated 2 years ago with a bachelor's in Communications and the company that bought us out decided to cannibalize the building equipment and shut down shop. They laid everyone else there off and that HR lady lost her job. I looked her up on LinkedIn and she is still unemployed 4 years later! With that said, once I graduated, I filled out over 200 job applications and didn't hear back at all so I ended up getting a job working as a night custodian at a local high school which was not exactly what I wanted so I got a day shift (extremely early day shift) working as a custodian at the city hall. I have goals to move past that though. I'm tentatively considering going for a master's. I also have aspirations of owning my own small business. Gotta see how it all rolls out in the end.
@TedH71