She is a former senior fellow with the Ford Foundation and advisor to the world bank. She joins us tonight to discuss her life, work and new book, being human. She will be in conversation with our very good friend Pamela Edwards and abc news anchor of the morning addition. Duty and pam, the screen is yours. Andy, this new age of social distancing is great to see we can get it done. Duty, it was an honor to read your book. It is a running theme in the book, how often people tell you they should know they had no idea and im hopeful that people reading your book and joining in on the conversation tonight will be brought up to speed on what your fight has been about and all the changes you have made. In fact, thats where i want to start, to give people a perspective and i wanted you to compare and contrast what it was like when you are a young person pick you up in the book talk about your childhood in brooklyn. What it was like to be a person coming into the world then with a disability a
Wit, heumann served in bill Clintons Administration shaping disability policy in the department of education and was appointed by barack obama as the special adviser on disability rights for the state department. She is also a former senior fellow at the Ford Foundation and advisor to world bank. She joins us tonight to discuss her life, work, and new book, being human, an unprepen tent enemy interior of a disability rights activist. She will in conversation with tam la edwards. The science yours. Thank you very much. Thats wonderful. Andy, in the news age of social distancinged a great to see we can get it done and judy it was an honor truly to read your book, running theme in the book how often people tell you, people who should know, say i had no idea and im hopeful that people reading your book and joining in on the conversation tonight will be brought up to speed on what your fight has been about and all the changes you have made, and in fact thats where i wanted to start to give
Pamela edwardss, anchor of 6 abc action news morning edition. The screen is yours. Thats wonderful. Andy, in this new age of social distancing its great we can get it done and judy an honor to read your back. A running theme in the book how often people tell you, people who should know, say i had no idea. And im hopeful that people reading your book and joining in on the conversation tonight will be brought up to speed on what your fight has been about and all the changes you have made and in fact thats where i wanted to start to give people a little bit of a perspective. I wanted you to do a compare and contrast what it was like when you were a young person. You opened the back talk about your childhood in brooklyn. What isth it wag like to be a person come thing into world with a disability and what its like now, the differences you see. Guest well, on the one hadnt the differences are very, very significant because when i had polio in 1949 in brooklyn, there was just the beginning o
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Pandemic special coverage on how to save. 24 people and reveal the shameful treatment of disabled people and remain new state from. Our investigation that raises questions about why the was funding some of those institutions now there are a fresh allegations about mistreatment this time not just in romania but in neighboring countries in the 2nd of 2 special reports sarah spill has been to poke area to find. In the 1st part of our investigation into the treatment of disabled people in European Union countries we revealed shocking evidence of abuse. Neglect. And incarceration in state institutions. For our 2nd film we start in bulk area another country with an appalling past when it comes to the treatment of people with disabilities now praised as a model for using millions in even money to move children from institutions and a way forward to other Member States. One controversial part of the reform is the creation of watercooled small group homes. The claim is that these places for up