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Why I work to remove access barriers for students with disabilities | Haben Girma | TEDxBaltimore
The barrier isn't you. It's a choice someone made, and choices can change.
Who it's for
Disabled students often internalise access failures as personal burdens and hesitate to keep asking; Girma reframes them as a question of rights and design.
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Feelings it meets
What it is
In this TEDxBaltimore talk from May 2014, Haben Girma, a deafblind lawyer and then a Skadden Fellow at Disability Rights Advocates, draws on her own education and work to argue for removing access barriers for disabled students. She challenges stereotypes about who becomes a lawyer and what disabled people can achieve.
Where to find it
YouTube, TEDx Talks channel (free). Transcript on habengirma.com.
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Age: Ages 12+
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.Helen Keller, Optimism: An Essay
