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Education

Access to education creates access to opportunities. Here, you’ll find a range of perspectives on what educational access means for the disability community: recognizing that everyone has different learning styles, school experiences, and educational goals.

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A yellow sharpened pencil laying over a white sheet of paper showing handwritten math equations. Equations include sine a over sine a equals sine b over sine b, y equals h minus 6 t squared over 4, and several sine wave graphs.

Math Is Not a Test of Worth

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Four masked people of color discuss books in an art-filled bookstore. On the left, a Black non-binary woman has everyone’s attention, pointing out a passage from the book they’re holding while sitting in a rollator with their cane between their legs. Next to them, an Indigenous woman and Latinx non-binary person share a couch. On the right, a Black non-binary pereson sits in a folding chair while holding their own book and fidget stim.

Resources for Today and Tomorrow

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Colorful diverse and inclusive illustration of children. The kids range in disabilities from cancer to amputated limbs and blindness. Mobility aids include a wheelchair and crutches. The kids are various heights and skin colors.

When Disabled Adults Care for Disabled Youth, Everyone Prospers

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Indoors. Two dark brown-skinned Indian teens, one wearing a bookbag on their back, look down at copies of White Print mag that are located on a brown table.

Braille and Leisure in India: 10 Years of White Print Magazine

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A red, spiral notebook and white pen against a light blue background. A white, torn off post-it note is taped to the notebook. It reads: "It's okay to not be okay."

It’s Okay Not to Be Okay – Until It’s Not

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Hudson in front of a stuffed eagle and other science equipment

Tortoises Say, “Fun for All!”

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Julian sits in his power chair and raises his arms against a poster of a hawk's wingspan.

Hawks Say, “Help for All!”

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Lyla stands with her cane in front of a giraffe in the giraffe barn

Giraffes Say, “Habitats for All!”

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Miles speaks to camera from his bedroom. He is wearing a t-shirt with the University of Washington logo on it, which looks like a royal purple capital letter W with a gold border.

Reasonable Accommodations with Miles

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Artwork. A gold plaque has the following written on it in black text: "This institution has failed to provide disabled individuals with an accessible evacuation plan. In the case of an emergency, this is where my people will die. Please remember us. Please remember me."

In the Stairwell, We Will Die

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Stressed brown-skinned teacher with long, straight, dark hair in a colorful classroom, sitting at the toy table.

Removing the Stigma of Alcoholism in the Teaching Profession

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Graduation cap resting on stacks of coins

I Shouldn’t Have to Share My Mental Health Trauma to Get Scholarships for Graduate School

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A grayscale photo of the author, a white woman with brown hair just above her shoulder, warmly hugging her son, a young white boy with close cropped brown hair.

My Son and I Have the Same Disability, but That Doesn’t Mean We Need the Same Accommodations

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A pile of books with an apple on top and a cup with multi-colored pencils in it, in front of a chalkboard.

A Disabled Student’s Guide to Earning Teacher of the Year

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A photo of a building on the Harvard campus, surrounded by a bright blue cloudy sky and bright green grass.

I’m a Disabled Uruguayan Person Who’s Been Accepted to Harvard…but the World’s Education Systems Still Leave People with Disabilities Behind.

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