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@baraza.africahttps://hearingreview.com/inside-hearing/research/scientists-receive-grant-to-develop-sign-language-lexicon-for-chemistry
A team of scientists will expand work to make chemistry more accessible for students who rely on American Sign Language interpreters in class.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/education/2023/02/24/john-boyer-blind-software-engineer-in-madison-wisconsin-dies/69907224007/
https://oadoi.org/10.1080/15017419.2016.1263972/
https://www.thelymemuseum.org/post/unethical-recruitment-of-disabled-men-during-the-vietnam-war
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/donald-trump-criticized-after-he-appears-mock-reporter-serge-kovaleski-n470016
Trump appeared to imitate Kovaleski, who suffers from arthrogryposis.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/africa/article/abs/disability-and-technology-in-africa-introduction/BAE3BC7D574777BB1EB8C52F39354891
Disability and technology in Africa: introduction - Volume 92 Issue 4
https://archive.org/details/printdisabled
Free books for the people with disabilities that impact reading. If you have a disability that interferes with reading printed text then all of these books can be instantaneously available in your browser or via protected download. Want access? Individuals If you would like to...
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/07/26/us/american-sign-language-changes.html
Ubiquitous video technology and social media have given deaf people a new way to communicate. They’re using it to transform American Sign Language.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz8ZyCmV0N8
Impoverished families in Tanzania are being tricked into giving up their disabled children by human traffickers. Promised a better life, the children are ins...
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2022/3/30/nigerias-lagos-life-with-a-disability-in-the-african-megacity
A close look into the state of accessibility for people with disabilities in Nigeria’s largest city.