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Elsa Sjunneson was born in 1985. [1] She was born with congenital rubella syndrome, resulting in hearing loss, cataracts in both eyes, and a heart defect. [2] She is legally blind and wears a prosthetic eye and bilateral hearing aids.
In 2013, Girma joined Disability Rights Advocates (DRA) in Berkeley, California as a Skadden Fellow. She worked there from 2015 to 2016 as a staff attorney, working on behalf of people with disabilities. [4] [3] Girma says she became a lawyer in part to help increase access to books and other digital information for persons with disabilities. [12]
A speech-to-text reporter (STTR), also known as a captioner, is a person who listens to what is being said and inputs it, word for word (), as properly written texts.Many captioners use tools (such as a shorthand keyboard, speech recognition software, or a computer-aided transcription software system), which commonly convert verbally communicated information into written words to be composed ...
Javed Abidi – director of the National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP) in India [1]; Abia Akram – disability rights activist from Pakistan; founder of the National Forum of Women with Disabilities in Pakistan; prominent figure in the disability rights movement in the country, as well as in Asia and the Pacific; named one of the BBC's 100 Women in 2021
Renteria continues to create videos for the National Deaf LGBTQ Archives, which are published on the DQRC's Facebook page in order to preserve historic videos of the Deaf LGBT community. Through the DQRC, Renteria initiated National Deaf LGBTQ Awareness Week in 2018 in hopes of having Deaf schools implement it to empower Deaf LGBT youth.
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Liberal netizens tore into the elderly husband of Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) for appearing to turn down Vice President Kamala Harris’ handshake last week, but viral footage that swirled online ...
This is a list of disability organizations, ... (1880) – an American organization that primarily serves the Deaf population and focuses on advocacy and services.