One out of five people live with some type of a disability. If the environment or information is not sufficiently designed, people with disabilities are not able to participate in the life of an organization.
In this presentation we are going to look at the needs of people with disabilities (sight, hearing, extremities), how can we make a difference in their lives, and how this effort benefits everyone.
The following topics will be covered:
I started to work with advocacy groups when I was a teenager, and later on the national level to make higher education accessible to people with disabilities.
After college I moved to the United States where I started working as an accessibility consultant and later started my own company.
While working with thousands of people in the United States, I worked with developing countries. One of my biggest achievements was training a group of blind people in Southeast Asia to become the first accessibility experts in their own countries.
Currently I’m building a business program at the Hadley School for the Blind to help blind entrepreneurs to realize their dream of independence.
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