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Co-Founding the ACLU, Fighting for Labor Rights and Other Helen Keller Accomplishments Students Don’t Learn in School

By Olivia B. Waxman — 2020

Most students learn that Keller, born June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Ala., was left deaf and blind after contracting a high fever at 19 months, and that her teacher Anne Sullivan taught her braille, lip-reading, finger spelling and eventually, how to speak. However, there is still a great deal about her life and her accomplishments that many people don’t know.

Read on time.com

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Inclusion, Belonging and the Disability Revolution: Jennie Fenton at TEDxBellingen

Jennie shares the story of her family’s journey from disability to possibility and all the dark and light places in between.

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Access Nature

The physical, mental, and emotional benefits of access to nature are widely known, yet communities that need these benefits the most are often excluded from outdoor spaces. What does accessibility in the outdoors actually mean, and how can it be improved for all people with disabilities?

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Haben Girma on “Disability and Belonging” | #OBConf2019

Disability rights advocate and lawyer Haben Girma gives a talk focused on connection, community, inclusive access, and belonging at the Othering and Belonging conference 2019. Girma is the first Deafblind person to graduate from Harvard Law School.

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Trapped: My Life with Cerebral Palsy

Living in the Belgian Congo with her husband in the 1960s, Fran’s mother became pregnant with a daughter. However, right after she gave birth in the hospital, she felt strange. Unbeknownst to anyone, another daughter was on the way, but before anybody responded, an hour had passed.

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Pure Grit: Stories of Remarkable People Living with Physical Disability

Nineteen people from across the globe, ranging in age from twenty to seventy-plus, tell their stories of living and thriving in diverse fields — in sport, the arts, medicine, business and more.

Lily Collison, Kara Buckley

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Confronting the Invisible | Olivia Larner | TEDxFurmanU

When you look at me what do you see? Join Olivia as she explains her journey of having chronic illnesses. Olivia contextualizes her experience through spoon theory.

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I Have Sjogren’s Syndrome

Working with an autoimmune condition.

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Celebrating Disability as Part of Human Diversity | Catalina Devandas Aguilar | TEDxGeneva

A life-long human rights activist, Catalina Devandas became the first United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities in 2014.

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#HowYouSeeMe - How to Talk about Disability with Four Successful Women.

Eone has hosted virtual panel with Becca Meyers, Catherine Elliott, Lizzi Smith and Mallory Weggemann! Hear what these four amazing individuals have to say about embracing their differences and how they tackle the World.

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I See You, Can You See Me? | Tegan Vincent-Cooke | TEDxBristol

"I am not just my disability, I am me. A young, black, disabled, hilarious, entrepreneur, soon to be Paralympian!" She might be 18 years old, but Tegan Vincent-Cooke is already a successful YouTube star and horse-riding champion.

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