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About a year ago, Stephen Kuusisto said “hello” to a professor in an elevator in a Syracuse University building. The professor didn’t acknowledge Kuusisto’s greeting.
Kuusisto, who is blind, said “hello” a second time, and the professor still didn’t respond. But when some students stepped onto the elevator, the professor went on to talk to them. Kuusisto confronted the professor outside the elevator, where the professor said they didn’t have to talk to people they didn’t want to.
“From my perspective, that was outright ableism,” said Kuusisto, director of interdisciplinary programs and outreach at the Burton Blatt Institute.
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The Burton Blatt Institute at Syracuse University will be holding a virtual discussion tonight with a distinguished panel of guests well-versed in disability culture, education, advocacy and innovation.
The event reflects back on the 30th Anniversary year of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Associate Director of Interdisciplinary Programs and Outreach Professor Diane Wiener says the US has made progress on accommodations for people with disabilities, but is nowhere near the what she would have liked to achieve by 2021. She says pepople should be taught about able-ism to counter existing misperceptions about people with disabilities.
“To think about non-disabled people as superior to disabled people, and how ethically fraught and challenging that is, and what it means to either intentionally or unintentionally be oppressive and discriminatory against disabled people, as if we are less capable, less innovative, less interesting, less intelligent.
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