National AccessAbility Week: Words Matter

Description

Join an ambassador from the Rick Hansen Foundation to explore disability, accessibility, and inclusion. Hear personal stories and learn how your words and actions can create positive change.

Additional Information

These programs are conducted through Zoom. Register to receive a reminder, the evaluation, and any other resources. Click the Zoom links to join online: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84282993447

Ages: This program is designed for ages 13 and over.

Words Matter!  Join Gina Martin, an ambassador from the Rick Hansen Foundation, to learn more about disability, accessibility, and inclusion.  Gina will share about her daily life, talk about her disability, and how the words and actions we use can have a positive effect on those around us.

About the Presenter: Gina Martin is a wife, mother and adventurer. She loves to travel and enjoys having new experiences.  In 1992 she was diagnosed as legally blind in both eyes from Progressive Cone Dystrophy. She attended the intensive 9 month rehabilitation training at the Louisiana Centre for the Blind, and today she is living my best life only she does it differently than when she had sight.

This program is created in partnership with the Rick Hansen Foundation.

About the Rick Hansen Foundation:  Rick Hansen is the Founder of the Rick Hansen Foundation and a passionate supporter of people with disabilities in Canada. Rick is best known as the “Man In Motion” for his epic 26-month, 34-country, 40,000 km wheelchair trip around the world to make the world inclusive for people with disabilities and to find a cure for paralysis. Since the end of the Man In Motion World Tour in 1987, Rick has dedicated his life to creating a world that is accessible and inclusive for all by removing barriers for people with disabilities through the Rick Hansen Foundation. Rick and his team at the Foundation are dedicated to raising awareness, changing attitudes, helping create accessible spaces, and liberating the amazing potential of people with disabilities. For more information please visit their website at https://www.rickhansen.com/

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