The clinic’s work to develop comprehensive long COVID awareness aims to address the inequities and adversities discussed in the editorial, particularly for patients with psychological symptoms and those from underrepresented minority groups, both of which the editorial states are often dismissed.
Text-to-speech technology is just one step. Encouraging the university to fix this technology will push faculty to consider other methods of implementing accessibility. UW strives for an accessible future, and this challenge can be overcome with the combined efforts of a motivated staff and student body.
As an educator with a strong interest in Disability studies, it is important to Little that her materials are accessible to all students in her class. SensusAccess, however, failed to meet her expectations, scrambling her texts and making them close to unreadable.
The 2020 nationwide racial justice protests pushed UW administrators to reconsider the role of law enforcement in mental health emergencies. However, students, staff, and faculty have advocated for a non-police response for years.
“UW has a great sense of community. I have talked to different disability centers across the country, and they don’t have as many resources, and I think that is great about UW,” said Bose.
Having been undiagnosed until the age of 19, I spent most of my childhood and adolescence frustrated with my laziness and lack of discipline— what I now know as a deficit in executive functioning, not a flaw ingrained into my personality.
June 9, 2019. Ali Stroker wins Best Featured Actress in a Musical at the 73rd Annual Tony Awards. An actor, singer, and wheelchair user, Ali Stroker has been a trailblazer for disability representation on the stage. She was the first wheelchair user to graduate from the Tisch School of the Arts Drama Department at New York University. In 2015, she was the first wheelchair user to appear on Broadway, starring as Anna in the musical, Spring Awakening. For her performance as Ado Annie Carnes in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, Oklahoma!, Stroker became the first wheelchair user to win a Tony Award in 2019.
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