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Opening Doors, Opening Minds

Wednesday, December 11, 2013, By Keith Kobland
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College of Law students are also opening some eyes, and hope their efforts will strengthen rights for people of all abilities. This video explains how.

Open Doors Project at SU College of Law from Syracuse University News on Vimeo.

Here is a transcription of our story:

“J.D. candidate Victoria Governali says “today is the international day of persons with
disabilities is recognized by the United Nations and the theme this year is break barriers open doors for an inclusive society for all. We literally wanted open doors for an inclusive society and to raise awareness about disability, disability rights what it’s like to be a person with disabilities so we’ve printed fliers explaining the day and why the door should be opened
we emailed faculty staff and administrators to get them on board and hopefully support us with email the students so that they can be involved also and we went around me posted signs on the doors physically open to them and hopefully they will remain that way throughout the day. Law Professor Arlene Kanter says ‘The disability Law Society was started by a group of students about ten years ago when we started our disability law policy program
and this program is designed to create a specialty in disability rights within
the law school. We’re the first law school in the country to create a joint degree in law
in disability studies with the School of Education and we get students to come
here specifically because they would like to pursue a career
in disability rights law. Law student Angel Baker says “I believe that everybody is an equal and I really enjoyed being able to help
people who, like my brother his autistic
and he doesn’t always gets an opportunity that I do and so I really
appreciate when
other people go out of their way to welcome everyone. Even if it’s a little bit of an inconvenience today it allows for people to see what its like.
Governali: “I think its important for law students to know that they’ll be dealing with clients pf
different abilities and backgrounds and
that they have to be open and welcoming to all people
and and so I think this is one way to get in the mindset
you know budding law law students and lawyers
about people with disabilities and their right and maybe get them
thinking and moving”

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