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Students with Disabilities in the Field of Medicine (by Farzana Ali)
December 5, 2016
Farzana Ali (left) and Daniel W. Sheehan, Associate Dean for Medical Curriculum at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. How are you going to do the long hours of clinical rotation in this condition? As a premedical student, the strong emotion invoked by that question left me speechless. Especially since it was posed by the Associate Dean of medical education from my beloved undergraduate institution, Stony Brook University, a community where I developed my values of…
ADA 25 and an Autistic Advocate’s Celebration of Disability!
August 14, 2015
ADA 25 and an Autistic Advocate’s Celebration of Disability! by Alec Frazier and Autistic Reality http://www.nothingaboutuswithoutus.net/ I am writing to report back on advocacy activities I have taken part in during the 2015 Conference of the National Council on Independent Living (NCIL), the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), as well as other activities in Washington, DC.
Alec Frazier with Yoshiko Dart
I met with a number of really wonderful disability r…