Elisheva Schwartz
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307 appearances
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first heard Aug 2018
last heard Aug 2018
Elisheva Schwartz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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is a disability.
And in some environments, it's a strength.
And family members, specifically parents, wanting to use language that had reverence for different and that showed full respect for their children.
And it makes sense because it's when you're living with
a person that's not doing well in the traditional school system, or you are that person, you have a completely different perspective than somebody that's looking at it as a statistic or looking at it clearly just from, you know, where are the differences in phonological awareness?
Where are the differences in acquiring, you know, numeracy skills?
So it's just been absolutely amazing to see what happens when you give voice to
to the family members?
What happens when you give voice to the individuals?
What happens when people begin to share their stories?
And the internet completely changed the conversation.
And so when I was growing up, it was just a different world.
Learning disabilities, it was something that was like completely hush-hush.
There was nothing glamorous about it.
There was nothing celebrated about it.
It was just this shadow of some kids that ended up in the research room or in the special ed class or whatever it was.
that's
Yeah, so it's that that's definitely like a multi layered question.
To start, I firmly believe that every
way of processing information on one side as a strength and on one side is going to be a deficit or disability because the way the brain works is it's like a cohesive system.
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