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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.36,0:00:01.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: I beg your pardon?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.62,0:00:03.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Since I was about five years old.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.97,0:00:10.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: That's right since she was about five years old. She has been presenting to small groups, large groups,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.70,0:00:16.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to help people understand that they're people, not deaf people.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.16,0:00:24.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And to help people understand that human dignity is more important than stereotype.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.36,0:00:35.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The greatest enemy of truth is frequently not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.52,0:00:41.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.72,0:00:43.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you agree?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.05,0:00:45.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, we think so.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.75,0:00:49.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why don't you begin telling them a little bit about your life?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.58,0:00:57.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and oh, why don't you (mouthing) why don't you ask them their names first.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.46,0:01:02.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Oh my. He asked me to ask you your names.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.59,0:01:08.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Her name is Gloria Beacon. What's your name?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.45,0:01:10.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Annette: My name is Annette Tull
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.68,0:01:12.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Annette Tall
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.03,0:01:12.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Annette: Tull
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.70,0:01:15.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Tull. Ok Tull Right?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.64,0:01:17.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Say it again? Bitter: Keep working on it.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.13,0:01:17.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Annette: Annette
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.75,0:01:20.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Annette. Annette Tull. Okay
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.63,0:01:22.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's your name?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.04,0:01:23.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tiffany: My name is Tiffany Whitehead.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.74,0:01:26.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Tiffany. That's a pretty name.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.100,0:01:29.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: Now we want as we move along.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.63,0:01:36.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Um, If you don't pick up what they're saying and their lips are moving like that, and you can't understand what's going on
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.04,0:01:44.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or if you'd like to have them articulate a little more, to help each other, if they don't understand you, what are they supposed to do?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.25,0:01:48.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Do it again. Repeat it again.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.46,0:01:55.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: Repeat it again. So we kind of have a reciprocal understanding, that what we don't understand we will repeat.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.25,0:01:58.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So if you don't understand, Colleen won't start crying.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.52,0:02:03.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you don't understand, she won't throw her microphone and leave the room.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.14,0:02:08.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She will work with you on it and help you understand, and you might talk up a little bit, honey
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.90,0:02:20.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we have the ambient noise, the sound, the air-conditioning, whatever is going on upstairs, is on, so you might talk a little louder, turn up the volume.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.76,0:02:22.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Ok. I'll do my best.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.64,0:02:23.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: Do you have your hearing aids on?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.63,0:02:24.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: No
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.47,0:02:26.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: Everything is speech reading. Colleen: It hurt my ear.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.56,0:02:32.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: Everything is speech reading tonight. All right, go ahead. Oh, we're going around aren't we?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.17,0:02:37.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Yeah. Ok, this is Tiffany. What's your name?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.07,0:02:40.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Doug: My name is Doug Roberts. Doug Roberts.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.90,0:02:41.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Doug Roberts.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.78,0:02:42.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Doug: uh huh
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.34,0:02:43.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Okay
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.26,0:02:46.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shaunette: I'm Shaunette Tamblin
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.52,0:02:47.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Shaunette?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.61,0:02:48.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shaunette: Shaunette.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.76,0:02:51.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Shaunette. Next person.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.64,0:02:53.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sheena: I'm Sheena Ruby.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.59,0:02:54.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Say that again
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.57,0:02:55.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sheena: Sheena Ruby
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.97,0:02:57.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Sheena, Sheena, I didn't get the
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.83,0:02:58.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sheena: Sheena Ruby. Colleen: Sheena
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.00,0:03:01.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: She got it.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.39,0:03:04.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Collen: Ok Alright next name is Max Nigh
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.70,0:03:05.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Max: Right.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.87,0:03:08.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Susan Boise?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.74,0:03:09.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Susan: Close
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.64,0:03:11.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: Tell her.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.20,0:03:11.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Susan: Bjorg
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.97,0:03:12.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Bjorg
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.97,0:03:14.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: Yes, put it together. BJorg.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.92,0:03:15.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Big Yorg.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.82,0:03:17.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: No, Bjorg
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.20,0:03:18.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Be Yore
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.60,0:03:23.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: Now let's do some work on that. Put it together. BJorg
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.50,0:03:24.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Big your
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.69,0:03:26.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: Not two separate. How many syllables?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.75,0:03:28.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Like two, three.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.18,0:03:30.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: No Bjorg, one syllable
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.85,0:03:32.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Borg
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.03,0:03:37.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: Haha, pretty close, pretty close. Bjorg.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.71,0:03:39.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Beyo.....Beyore
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.39,0:03:41.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: Now that's coming, very good. Now we're going to put it on the board.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.81,0:03:45.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now I would..this is...I'll put it on the board for you and show you what we'll do.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.72,0:03:53.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Where did you get that name from?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.42,0:04:03.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: Bjorg, okay. Now notice the phonetic spelling. How easy it looks? Bjorg
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.88,0:04:07.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is an R...my writing is terrible. Alright
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.40,0:04:11.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: I thought it was two, but it was one.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.91,0:04:16.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: That's right, well that's pretty close. Okay did we get everyone?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.97,0:04:22.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All right. Doug, ask for her name. Ask her her name.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.32,0:04:24.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Doug: Oh, What is your name?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.97,0:04:34.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: My name is Colleen Bitter. Colleen Bitter. This is my father.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.72,0:04:45.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: All right, why don't you tell them a little bit about your background, your life. Let's go that far and see what happens. All right?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.02,0:04:52.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Okay, fine. I was born with a profound hearing loss.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.01,0:04:58.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,excuse me for interrupting once more. Now if you don't get what she says, this is very important now.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.48,0:05:06.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you don't get it, tell her. You stop them once in awhile, but if you don't get it, and she moves along, then you ask her.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.75,0:05:11.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is very important in monitoring, because she's -- she isn't hearing you.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.25,0:05:15.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She's picking everything up by speech reading, by your syllable,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.90,0:05:21.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know the consonant vowel relationships, and by pitch and by just reading the environment.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.70,0:05:25.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so it's very very important that she knows\Nwhether you get it or not,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.80,0:05:31.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this helps her monitor her communication skills. All right?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.44,0:05:37.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Okay, thank you. I forgot, I forgot to explain that.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.02,0:05:42.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was born with a profound hearing loss.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.24,0:05:53.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have about 95 decibel loss, but my parents did not find out until I was about three years old.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.30,0:05:56.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we think it was
Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.59,0:05:59.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: What was wrong with your parents? Were they asleep?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.47,0:06:04.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: (laughing) No, half of the problem was the doctor.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.37,0:06:05.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: Oh the doctor.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.28,0:06:08.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: But whatever.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.48,0:06:09.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: But we can always blame.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:09.52,0:06:13.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: But don't ask me, I don't remember anything because I was a baby.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.95,0:06:16.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: Why, Why can't you remember?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.56,0:06:19.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Kidding me?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:19.27,0:06:20.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: Well
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.52,0:06:22.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: I can't remember because I was a baby.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.65,0:06:24.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: Oh when I was a baby?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:24.38,0:06:27.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: You were the father, so you should remember that.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.21,0:06:30.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: Okay, I guess you're right. alright.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.07,0:06:31.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Whatever
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.39,0:06:35.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: You caught me on that one. I put my foot in my mouth.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:37.53,0:06:39.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Thank you. Figurative, figurative.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.82,0:06:41.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: We do that all the time.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.71,0:06:43.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Figurative of speech
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.61,0:06:46.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: Figure of speech Colleen: Right, whatever.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.01,0:06:49.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: An idiomatic expression
Dialogue: 0,0:06:49.77,0:06:51.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Oh
Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.02,0:06:52.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: An Idiomatic
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.22,0:06:54.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: (unintelligible speech)
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.06,0:06:55.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: Idiomatic
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.13,0:06:56.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Idiomatic
Dialogue: 0,0:06:56.21,0:06:57.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: Expression
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.06,0:06:58.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Expression.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.09,0:07:02.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: I put my foot in my mouth. It's gone in one ear and out the other.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.14,0:07:20.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: All right. Okay, we think it was Rubella. But we don't know for sure. But we think it was Rubella.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.05,0:07:24.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: What's Rubella?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.22,0:07:33.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Well, it was, something like German Measles, German Measles.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.33,0:07:47.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, I have a prosthesis had it for 4 months so sometimes it is difficult for me to say "S", "S's".
Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.51,0:07:55.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(unintelligible speech) It is a big challenge for me, but of course, I won't give up. Ok
Dialogue: 0,0:07:56.92,0:08:00.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: You try putting elastic between all your teeth and talking.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:02.06,0:08:16.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Right. So, anyway. When I was about five years old I had to go to a private school.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.08,0:08:23.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was Hearing and Speech Foundation.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:23.35,0:08:27.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: Hearing and Speech Foundation. Yeah it's... Uh Ok
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.29,0:08:38.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: I can't feel that, it's weird. Anyway then I went through the Extension Division.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.05,0:08:39.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: Extension Division
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.97,0:08:50.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: In Salt Lake City. Back then class was in Salt Lake City within classes in regular school
Dialogue: 0,0:08:50.30,0:08:57.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But with some "deaf" classes. I don't like to say deaf, but
Dialogue: 0,0:08:57.48,0:09:07.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,deaf classes and some "hearing" classes to be with children with normal hearing.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.04,0:09:09.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: Is that what you call integration?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:09.74,0:09:11.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: In... Bitter: Is that what you call Integration?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:11.05,0:09:15.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Integration. That's what I call it. I had to think about that word.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.35,0:09:17.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: Today they, some people call it mainstreaming.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.68,0:09:18.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Mainstreaming.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:18.70,0:09:20.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: You know, we use Maximum Cultural Involvement.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.95,0:09:24.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Church, the school, the family, the home, you know the whole bit together.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.75,0:09:27.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've heard of that, haven't you? That's our philosophy.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.61,0:09:28.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:29.88,0:09:33.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: (Mouths: Oh I'm sorry we'll) We'll let you see the video.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.69,0:09:38.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Woman: Thank you. I'll be back next week. I'm sorry I have to go teach my class now.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:39.15,0:09:47.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: Thanks for coming Annette, and we'll get in con -- give me a call if there's any questions and we'll see you next week. Alright.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.60,0:10:00.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Okay, when I, I remember, I remember when I was little, one of my favorite classes was reading class.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.69,0:10:02.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: Did you get that?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:03.35,0:10:06.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Reading, reading, reading class.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:06.45,0:10:16.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Reading a book with the other children. There were four of us in class. I still remember it from third grade.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:16.42,0:10:19.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: Yes, and wasn't it one of the governor's daughters that asked you
Dialogue: 0,0:10:19.39,0:10:22.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Asked your mother one day if you could read?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.27,0:10:30.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was already at Brighton High School and one of the former Governor's daughters lived next to us
Dialogue: 0,0:10:30.80,0:10:37.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and had known Colleen all these many years; and one day, one day asked her mother if Colleen had learned how to read.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:37.89,0:10:40.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this was when she was a junior in high school. Remember that?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:40.42,0:10:52.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Yeah, I could not believe it. But I guess some people have.....weren't kind about people with a hearing problem
Dialogue: 0,0:10:52.17,0:10:56.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or a visual problem or something like that.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:56.35,0:11:07.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's all (unintelligible speech) say that sometimes. I have a fine, fine mind. That goodness. But...
Dialogue: 0,0:11:07.31,0:11:09.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: I have a fine mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:09.16,0:11:20.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Anyway, but I love to read though. Then we moved to Detroit, Michigan.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:20.50,0:11:21.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: Where did we move?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:21.76,0:11:22.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Audience: Detroit, Michigan
Dialogue: 0,0:11:22.100,0:11:30.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Detroit, Michigan and we lived there for three years. Then we moved back
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.21,0:11:32.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I went back to the program for one year.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:35.09,0:11:42.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shortly after, I told my dad and mom that I wanted to go to public school.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:42.48,0:11:50.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They said okay. So I went to ________ Public School, on my own.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:50.87,0:11:53.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: What uh, what district was that?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:53.54,0:11:54.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Jordan.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:54.59,0:11:55.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: Jordan District, okay.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:55.93,0:12:02.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: And I went to Butler Junior High
Dialogue: 0,0:12:02.37,0:12:05.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: Butler Junior High School.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:05.19,0:12:12.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: And I graduated from Brighton High School, in 1973.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:12.16,0:12:12.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: Okay.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:13.79,0:12:23.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Fortunately, after my graduation, I start to working for Utah Power and Light.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:25.75,0:12:30.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Did you get that? Okay. Fine.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:31.13,0:12:34.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: You helped turn the lights on.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:34.41,0:12:35.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Yeah
Dialogue: 0,0:12:35.51,0:12:36.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: Okay
Dialogue: 0,0:12:38.86,0:12:43.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: You helped keep the world lighted. Okay.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:46.19,0:12:48.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then what happened?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:48.99,0:12:51.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: I still working for Utah Power and Light.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:51.82,0:12:53.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: Are you in a rut?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:53.40,0:12:55.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: No, I feel fine.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:55.26,0:12:56.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: Okay
Dialogue: 0,0:12:57.56,0:13:00.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: I like working at Utah Power and Light.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:00.02,0:13:04.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: Alright, let's invite them now to ask you questions.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:04.40,0:13:09.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this will give the chance for speech reading skills to come about.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:09.34,0:13:14.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So go ahead, ask her some questions if you would like.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:14.11,0:13:17.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not if you would like. It's part of your examination.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:17.56,0:13:19.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(audience laughing)
Dialogue: 0,0:13:20.37,0:13:26.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: I told them, I said ask her some questions if they would like. and I said that's a lot of nonsense.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:26.20,0:13:30.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's a part of their examination, so they better ask you some questions.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:31.98,0:13:38.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Woman: Colleen, What do you expect from an Oral Interpreter? What do you want them to do for you?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:39.56,0:13:49.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Well, I expect them to tell me what's going on because that's when I don't hear anything.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:49.02,0:13:54.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I expect them to tell me what the speaker says.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:05.19,0:14:11.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and umm not to be on that side or the other side. But just speak what the speaker says.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:11.54,0:14:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's it. Everything to myself, and....
Dialogue: 0,0:14:19.00,0:14:22.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: Are you talking about impartiality? To be impartial?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:22.08,0:14:27.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not to take one position or another in terms of Philosophy or Methodology?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:27.17,0:14:28.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Right
Dialogue: 0,0:14:28.01,0:14:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: that's what we call impartiality, isn't it?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:31.00,0:14:33.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Impar--impartiality
Dialogue: 0,0:14:33.02,0:14:38.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: Impartiality, to be impartial. To not be partial
Dialogue: 0,0:14:38.51,0:14:44.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes. Come in, Debbie. (mouthing: Come in and join us.)
Dialogue: 0,0:14:44.61,0:14:46.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Debbie: Sorry
Dialogue: 0,0:14:48.38,0:14:50.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: In fact, why don't you sit there.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:50.61,0:14:52.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Debbie: Diane Powers is out there.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:52.74,0:14:53.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: She should come in.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:53.54,0:14:54.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Debbie: She said she will in a minute.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:54.74,0:14:56.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: Let's adjust the seat.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:03.13,0:15:05.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Man: Can I mic you?
Dialogue: 0,0:15:05.16,0:15:06.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Debbie: Oh. (laughing)
Dialogue: 0,0:15:07.76,0:15:15.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: Now Watch the interaction between Debbie and Colleen along the way too. That'll be very interesting.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:15.56,0:15:16.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Colleen and Debbie Laughing)
Dialogue: 0,0:15:16.80,0:15:18.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Good to see you again.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:18.77,0:15:19.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Debbie: Yeah
Dialogue: 0,0:15:20.45,0:15:24.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: It's so much fun to have you with us again, Debbie. It's been a long time.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:24.05,0:15:26.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Debbie: Yeah it has. It's been a long time.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:26.34,0:15:28.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: Yes, been a long time.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:28.89,0:15:33.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Alright, Colleen is just giving a little background of her life, you know.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:33.45,0:15:35.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they were asking her questions.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:35.08,0:15:35.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Debbie: Okay
Dialogue: 0,0:15:35.92,0:15:41.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: But let's stop with Colleen now, and would you give some background of uh
Dialogue: 0,0:15:49.58,0:15:55.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Debbie: Ok, to talk about me?
Dialogue: 0,0:15:55.50,0:15:58.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Colleen and Debbie laughing)
Dialogue: 0,0:15:58.27,0:16:01.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: Go ahead. I talked about me then you tell them
Dialogue: 0,0:16:02.46,0:16:07.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Debbie: Oh I see. Where do you want me to start?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:08.01,0:16:09.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Talk about when I was born.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:12.24,0:16:15.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Alright, I was born deaf.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:16.43,0:16:20.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First of all, my name is Deborah H(unintelligible speech).
Dialogue: 0,0:16:21.34,0:16:33.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was born deaf. My parents found out I had a hearing loss when I was 18 months.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:33.42,0:16:39.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But they don't know for sure what caused it. We think I was born deaf
Dialogue: 0,0:16:39.65,0:16:44.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or either I would say hard of hearing before I was 18 months.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:44.71,0:16:50.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we don't know for sure because I was pretty young at that age.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:51.11,0:16:59.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then I went to private school when I was three and a half years old to learn how to lip read
Dialogue: 0,0:16:59.80,0:17:08.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and speech and foundation at the University of Utah for about three years.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:08.87,0:17:17.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then I went to regular school but it was not the school for the Deaf in Ogden.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:17.47,0:17:20.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it was a school in Salt Lake.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:20.50,0:17:26.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there was a class, that was the first class when I was about 5 years old.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:27.03,0:17:31.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it was all classrooms in Salt Lake.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:31.14,0:17:36.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I was the first one to start the class with six people
Dialogue: 0,0:17:38.04,0:17:50.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so my parents would take me to go to school in Ogden because it's too far away from my home in Ogden.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:50.46,0:17:58.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we had half the parents work with the child, this was hard work.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:58.53,0:18:02.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we rotated between the parents and the child.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:02.61,0:18:07.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I started school when I was about seven.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:07.27,0:18:14.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started going to school with hearing people and deaf people together.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:15.56,0:18:16.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes?
Dialogue: 0,0:18:16.08,0:18:18.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bitter: Debbie, did you and Colleen go to the same school?
Dialogue: 0,0:18:18.82,0:18:22.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Debbie: Yes, maybe for the first five years.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:22.64,0:18:23.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colleen: First five years.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:23.56,0:18:25.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Debbie: or something like that. We kind of spread it out.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:27.29,0:18:36.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then uh I started going to South High School and I graduated in 1971.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:36.72,0:18:40.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then I went to the University of Utah for about a year.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:41.43,0:18:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then I went to Long Beach for college.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:46.17,0:18:50.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then I started fashion design major.