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Apple QuickTime movie  |  2002-08-16  |  15.7 MB  |  320x240  |  15fps  |  3 minutes, 9 seconds
Transcription: I don't think of myself personally as an advocate, but I think of myself as being a way for deaf people to advocate for themselves by being there. I don't normally call myself an ally. I don't know if that really fits the ally philosophy, but that's how I view the work that I do. To me, an interpreter's role is to make sure that the two people or more who are communicating achieve whatever goals they set out to achieve without taking too much of an active role in that other than to interpret the message of what somebody is saying. To make cultural additions when necessary, to make sure the sam ...