Event Description:
Join this webinar to hear disability activists discuss pop-culture depictions of accommodation and support for people with disabilities. Speakers will explore the values these popular narratives have created or destroyed over time as well as how person-centered support is illustrated in popular culture.
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Andy Arias is an actor, producer, and advocate.
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Kathy Flaherty is the Executive Director of Connecticut Legal Rights Project, Inc, an agency that provides legal services to low-income individuals with mental health conditions on matters related to their treatment, recovery, and civil rights.
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Finn Gardiner is a disability rights advocate with interests in educational equity, intersectional justice, comparative policy, and inclusive technology.
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Mary L. Radnofsky, Ph.D., is a former ghostwriter and college professor of Education and Human Development, French, Astronomy, and Qualitative Research; she also founded and ran the Socrates Institute, a non-profit educational organization for over twenty years.
This webinar will be held on Wednesday, August 18, 2021 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. ET.
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Wednesday, August 18, 2021 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm EDT
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