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Read more about the article Accepted in high school despite cerebral palsy, I expected the same in college. What went wrong?
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Featured Stories / Personal / Published Commentary / Syracuse.com

Accepted in high school despite cerebral palsy, I expected the same in college. What went wrong?

The idea of writing two five-page papers for separate courses in the same week began to erode my confidence. As I traveled the icy path from the Maxwell School in…

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May 2021
Read more about the article Falling on deaf ears
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Disability Beat / Featured Stories / Reported Features / The NewsHouse

Falling on deaf ears

As Matthew Watkins entered the final weeks of his bachelor’s degree program at the Rochester Institute of Technology, the COVID-19 pandemic struck. The infectious killer shut down campuses across the…

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May 2021
Read more about the article Shifting to acceptance and empowerment around autism awareness
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Columns / Disability Beat / Featured Stories / Reported Features / The NewsHouse

Shifting to acceptance and empowerment around autism awareness

  Awareness months for diseases or conditions are designed with good intentions. But at the start of Autism Awareness Month that kicks off with Friday’s World Autism Awareness Day, some…

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April 2021
Read more about the article Syracuse resident curates art exhibit to address gun violence, racism
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Arts Beat / Featured Stories / Reported Features / The Daily Orange

Syracuse resident curates art exhibit to address gun violence, racism

Ever since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012, Karen Gutfreund has watched as lawmakers have done very little to end gun violence despite multiple school shootings. During her…

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February 2021
Read more about the article OVERLOOKED: 30 Years After ADA Legislation, College Students with Disabilities Continue Fight for Inclusion
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Columns / Disability / Featured Stories / Personal / Substack

OVERLOOKED: 30 Years After ADA Legislation, College Students with Disabilities Continue Fight for Inclusion

The comments about how my needs were too much for the system to handle still echo in my ear. I can hear the conversations that handcuffed my family. As we…

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December 2020