Disability advocates through the years
He was the first president with a disability.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
In this film a fish has amnesia, she must battle this while searching for her parents.
What is Finding Dory?
This is a popular tv show portraying dating and love within the autistic community.
What is Love on the Spectrum?
Who is Larissa Scott?
This event kicked off our Disability Pride Month on July 3rd. Our wonderful Executive sponsor did our introduction.
What is Patriotism & Disability Awareness?
He was the first to found a permanent school for the Deaf in America.
Who is Thomas H. Gallaudet?
In this thriller a family including a young girl who is Deaf, must remain silent or else they can be hunted by terrifying creatures.
What is A Quiet Place?
This show depicts a blind French teen who is also played by a blind actor Aria Mia Loberti.
What is All the Light We Cannot See?
Before coming to WGU she was an art and music teacher for 12 years!!
Who is Caitie Mortensen?
In this event we learned how to be an ally.
What is How to be an ally for autistic sudents?
Who is the Mother of the disability rights movement?
Who is Judy Heumann?
A music teacher changes the lives of his students as well as his Deaf son.
What is Mr. Hollands Opus?
She was the first Deaf actress to be cast in Sesame Street.
Who is Linda Bove?
She works as an accessibility lead within Student Rights & Responsibilities.
Who is Amanda Babcock?
This was our first learning session at the beginning of the month. I wonder what we learned about.
What is Disability Models and the impact on lived experience?
He invented Braille.
Who is Louis Braille?
Mathematical genius John Nash experiences lifelong struggle with schizophrenia on the way to receiving a Nobel Prize.
What is A Beautiful Mind?
In this series Sam, a young man with autism spectrum disorder, decides it is time to start dating.
She is our resident cat foster enthusiast!
Who is Melissa Brulotte?
We had a wonderful hour where we bonded over similar experiences and even learned a new poem!
What is the Storytelling Circle?
Who is Alan A. Reich?
A man falls in love with a woman and discovers that she has short-term memory loss due to a TBI.
What is 50 first dates?
This is a television series that aired from 2008-2013 where the son has cerebral palsy. The son has the same name as his father with the inital WW jr. What is this shows title?
What is Breaking bad?
She came to WGU in 2023, before that she spent 21 years in Law Enforcement.
Who is Whitney Rogers?
This event has yet to happen but it will explore a new addition so that our members have a chance to meet.
What is the Neurodivergent meet & greet?