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When we design for disability, we all benefit

Elise Roy · TED

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About

"I believe that losing my hearing was one of the greatest gifts I've ever received," says Elise Roy. As a disability rights lawyer and design thinker, she knows that being Deaf gives her a unique way of experiencing and reframing the world -- a perspective that could solve some of our largest problems. As she says: "When we design for disability first, you often stumble upon solutions that are better than those when we design for the norm."

The talk

  1. When we design for disability, we all benefit 14 min · TED's player

Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TEDxMidAtlantic
Speaker
Elise Roy
Year
2015
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Society and politics, Art, architecture and design
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
TED Talks are licensed by TED under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International and are shown here in TED's own player, as TED's usage policy asks.
Who can watch
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