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Although they lost nearly all their hearing around twelve, they still acquired roughly 1,093 patents and changed the night sky forever.
Thomas Edison
A personal hygiene device created to help people with limited coordination and motor skills.
Electric Toothbrush
Accenture offers this to help workers manage their work schedule.
Flexible Work Arrangement
Developmental Disabilities Month
March
Located near Hermitage, this school caters to those with visual impairment
Tennessee School for the Blind
After acquiring a head injury early in life, they suffered from seizures. However, this didn't stop them from participating in the underground railroad as well as being an army scout and spy.
Harriet Tubman
Originally done using vinyl, but now digitalized due to the internet; this invention allows written communication to be shared in a format more easily accessible to those with visual impairments.
Audiobooks
Accenture helps people with hearing deficiency by adding this on videos.
Closed Captioning
Autism Awareness Month
April
Located near Opryland, this establishment specializes in education and therapy of Autism
Autism Education and Therapy Center
This graphic designer developed a font type called Dyslexie that is specifically designed for people with dyslexia, such as himself, as part of his final thesis while attending Utrecht Art Academy.
Christian Boer
This urban design element was originally meant for wheelchair users, but is now utilized at one time or another by everyone.
Curb Cut
Accenture offers this for workers with the need to be in different positions while working on the computer.
Adjustable Desk/Chair
Mental Health Awareness Month
May
In Nashville, this school caters to students with Disabilities, through an Individual Education Program, ages 3-21.
Harris-Hillman School
This suffragette and abolitionist suffered from a disable right hand, but managed to champion others such as herself who where invisible within the suffrage movement with her speech 'Ain't I a Woman'?
Sojourner Truth
This everyday item was invented in the 1930s when a father wanted to help his daughter enjoy a cold delicious dessert.
Bendy Straws
Accenture offers this product for employees who have difficulty with typing.
Voice activated software
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Disability Pride Month
July
In Nashville, this is a library that provides services for the deaf.
Library Services for the Deaf & Hard of Hearing
Born in a small town in Puerto Rico, this astronomer would lose her sight in her mid-twenties leading her to convert data sets into audio using a process called sonification in order to study black holes and other astrological events.
Wanda Díaz-Merced
A tool invented in 1608 for a blind countess who couldn't write, it would also serve as the basis for the design of another tool that has become an important cornerstone of our modern life.
Typewriter
Accenture buildings global-wide allow easy access and use for this specific room in terms of physical limitations
Handicap Accessible Restroom
Learning Disabilities Awareness Month
October
An Academy on Franklin Pike, caters to children who struggle academically.
Benton Hall Academy