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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, my name is
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Michelle Nario Redmond.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am a social psychologist
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I teach at (Hiram?) College.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the psychology \Nand biomedical humanities program,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I just wrote a book on ableism, \Nthe causes and consequences
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of disability prejudice.\NMy first memory,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'll just back up and say 1990,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when the ADA passed \NI was in graduate school,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Kansas, and disability prejudice,\Nthe ADA or anything
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,related to disability issues \Nwas completely off my radar,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I worked at a place \Nwhere one of the pioneers
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of disability studies worked, \NBeatrice Wright,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I had yet to have a class with her.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It really wasn't until 1995,\Nwhich was five years later,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when my daughter was born,\NSierra was (anabifoda??),
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is when I became aware \Nof disability and found the work
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Carol Gill and (Simi Litton?)\Nand began to educate myself
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on disability studies and its scope,\Nand the first memory I have of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,confronting inaccessible spaces\Nwas a few years later, when we enrolled
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my daughter Sierra in a preschool,\Nat a Catholic preschool,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,right down the road; and it just didn't\Neven dawn on me that we would have to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,work so hard for her to be accommodated\Nas a preschooler,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it was really a (function?) of\Nthe fact that the building was older,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there were steps, and they really didn't\Nknow, nor did they need to legally know,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about reasonable accommodations \Nand civil rights of their students,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they were a private facility and\Nweren't subject to the ADA's rules.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it became clear to me that we needed \Nto find a new preschool, and luckily
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we found another private place - \Nit wasn't a public school -
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it was a music school settlement\Nand they had resources
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they were already operating \Nunder a sort of set of presumptions
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the value of diversity\Nand diverse perspectives,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we didn't really have to ask for much,\Nbecause they bent over backwards
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to include my daughter\Nin a typical classroom, with her peers,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,her preschool peers, music classes,\Nthere were so many eclectic--
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,movement classes, and they even\Npurchased equipment
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for their exercise room and movement room\Nthat would be useful to her among others,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she has since grown up to become this teacher \Nand has applied to work there
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a preschool teacher, so I think\Nit would be really amazing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if she came full circle, but I guess\Nto answer the broader question
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about being frustrated and aware of\Ninaccessibility and lack of inclusion,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we were in a district that, when she then\Nwas about to move to preschool,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I knew that she probably wouldn't be \Nable to go to a private school,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not only because of the financial cost\Nbut also because they would not have to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,think about best practices\Nand the law when it came to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,accommodating their \Nstudents with disabilities,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so I knew we would be\Nlooking at the public school,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the public school in our neigbourhood\Nwas not accessible.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We went to visit it,\Nthe playground had a little house
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that she wouldn't have been \Nable to get into,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it was really disheartening\Nand so it came at a time
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when we were already \Nlooking for other opportunities,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and my husband got an opportunity\Nto move us as a family
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the West Coast\Nin Portland of Oregon,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so the way I-- so the way we had to\Nnavigate her early educational experiences
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was to only look at spaces and schools\Nthat were in districts that were new,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that had buildings \Nand had training in terms of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,accommodating their diverse students\Nand their disabled students,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because just having the brief experiences\Nthat I did with the preschool
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and IEP meetings that were going to\Nrequire me to fight at every juncture
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for her basic rights \Nto show what she knows
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and participate and recognise herself\Nas a valuable contributor
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the school community,\Nwe're not going to be forthcoming
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without a fight, \Nand so we narrowed our search
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to a district,\Nand thank God we had an opportunity
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the resources to do this,\Nthat was