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Tuesday, January
23rd
Abstract: In this panel
discussion, several Stanford students with disabilities will discuss their
disabilities, the challenges they have faced, their academic goals, and the
assistive technology they employ to be successful students.
- Zina Jawadi's
Biosketch:
- Zina Jawadi is a senior at
Stanford University and is involved with disability advocacy on campus through
Power2ACT and the
ASSU Executive
Cabinet. Outside of Stanford, Zina is the president of the
Hearing Loss Association of America,
California State Association, an affiliate of the Hearing Loss Association
of America, the largest nonprofit representing people with hearing loss in the
US. Zina founded a disability awareness program at her high school,
The Harker School, and previously
researched and created a video about techniques for teaching mainstreamed
students with hearing loss.
- Bryce Connor Tuttle's
Biosketch:
- "It took me a while to learn how to
read. Though I loved to hear my mom read aloud or listen to audio books, I
struggled through deciphering each word, unable to piece together the chains of
sounds my classmates could easily create from the letters on the page. In third
grade I was diagnosed with dyslexia. It is a label I have carried with pride
throughout the rest of my life. I credit my dyslexia with my ability to devise
unorthodox solutions. As my uncle says, 'only coming up with one way to spell a
word is terribly uncreative'."
- Evan Feinberg's
Biosketch:
- Evan Feinberg is a PhD
Candidate at Stanford in Computational Biophysics. In his research, Evan works
with Professor Vijay S. Pande on in silico approaches for drug discovery. While
he has struggled with chronic pain and compartment syndrome since his college
days at Yale, Evan has felt empowered to advance the field of chronic pain
management through his research on the µ Opioid Receptor. Most recently,
he has been developing deep neural network architectures to identify lead
molecules for developing new medicines.
- Brickelle Bro's
Biosketch:
- Brickelle Bro began swimming
at the age of eight and had fibular hemimelia and amniotic band syndrome before
birth, resulting in the amputation of both of legs below the knee. Bro made a
name for herself at the 2011 CanAms and the 2012 Paralympic Trials as she went
on to finish fifth at the London 2012 Paralympic Games. She set American
records in the 1000y free and 1650y free as a high schooler and broke the 1650y
record again as a freshman at Stanford University. Her interests include
volunteering, video editing and production, playing the piano, and hiking. She
has set up a foundation called 'My Feet Don't Stink', which aims to empower
young girls who have an impairment. May 2011 she received the
John Lynch Foundation Exceptional
Star of the Year Award. She was named the 2011 Colorado Disability Swimmer
of the Year.
- Lecture Material:
- Slides - Assistive Robotics - 2.21 Mb pdf
file
- Slides - Perspectives of Stanford Students with a
Disability - 1.69 Mb pdf file
- Video - not available
- Photos - 830 Kb pdf file
- Links:
- Office of Accessible Education
Links:
- Office of Accessible Education
Video: Welcome
to Stanford University
- Guide to the Office
of Accessible Education
- Office
of Accessible Education helps students with disabilities realize their full
potential
- Zina Jawadi's Links:
- The
Invisible Disability by Zina Jawadi
- Zina Jawadi - Hearing Loss
Association of America, California State Association
- Other Links:
- 2012 Stanford Daily article -
Panel
reflects on life at Stanford with a Disability
- 2014 Stanford Daily article -
An
Overlooked Minority by Aubrie Lee
- Power2ACT
seeks community center for students with disabilities by Edan
Armas
- Brickelle
Bro finds her niche at Stanford by Kit Ramgopal
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