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Tapping Into Potential With Expectations: Making Employment And Post-Secondary Education The New Norm For Individuals With Disabilities, University Of Maine Center For Community Inclusion And Disability Studies Nov 2018

Tapping Into Potential With Expectations: Making Employment And Post-Secondary Education The New Norm For Individuals With Disabilities, University Of Maine Center For Community Inclusion And Disability Studies

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In her keynote address from the University of Maine World Usability Day Conference on November 8, 2018, Dr. Kelly Nye-Lengerman discusses how large numbers of people with disabilities can’t access the typical trajectory for economic wellbeing. “What is it about our educational settings or employment settings that are not making these spaces available or accessible to people with disabilities?”