TEDxIslay - Linda Bove: Why We Need Deaf Actors in Deaf Roles

For more information about this event, please go to www.tedxislay.com. This speech was made at TEDxIslay in Austin, Texas on May 15, 2010. All of the speakers were deaf.

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[Shelllium]

Wow That was awesome! Really appreciate opportunity to watch this caliber of presentation on-line. Thanks so much! I don't know very much about this topic, but it seems like a big step would be if the Actors guild/unions had a professional code of conduct that deferred work in the spirit of ADA access and reserved those roles for authentically representative Deaf/Blind/Disabled actors. It is presumptuous for a Hrg non-signer to accept a Deaf signing role. Result is hollow performance.

[LizRocklin]

Thanks for posting! What does Linda Bove say about the TV show, "House" at around 9:30. It is not interpreted. THANKS!

[NeaLAUGH]

Why not that We,Deaf,HH others set our Own Production INC then..? No Money ?

[MegaDaniel1414]

I wish she was In Atlanta, Georgia.

[00arzu00]

@00arzu00 she's not even signing fast!

[00arzu00]

terrible interpreter, wow. like @ 5:35... um no, not "and she could voice" -- for the movie voices!! that's what she said -- ugh.

[siglmgga]

Captions please, quality captions. Or you speak to the converted, and thousands of deaf, deafened and people with hearing loss are excluded.

[HilariB]

One of the most eloquent explanations of why to cast deaf actors. Bravo, Linda.