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A co-operative movement by students with disabilities in Trinity College Dublin toward radical inclusion.

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As April is Autism Awareness Month, in this special episode of the Trinity Ability Co_op podcast students with autism discuss their experiences in Trinity. They also look at some tools and techniques that have been useful for them.

We are very excited that our members have been shortlisted for two USI Student Achievement Awards!

Join Suas, 2 speakers from the Trinity Ability Co_op and Dr Clodagh Brook, the Associate Vice Provost for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion this Tuesday at 4pm!

To conclude the Women With Invisible Disabilities project, Jane Madden talks to 4 students about their experience as women with invisible disabilities. Check it out at the link in our bio!

"My name is Jane, I’m a final BESS student specialising in business and I have Developmental Coordination Disorder also known as Dyspraxia. The idea of this project stemmed from Erwing Goffman’s social masks, as we all employ many different masks every day depending on who were interacting with. This got me thinking as women with disabilities often have to employ more than just a few social masks to keep up with societal norms and expectations. Due to this, females often go misdiagnosed in the system as they have this great ability to conform and this can lead to then being perceived as odd, scatter brained, and inattentive (these were some of the labels I use to be known by). When I got my diagnosis at 14, I lived in denial for five years, I basically kept my “secret“ hidden and refused all the supports offered to me in the fear I would be perceived as bizarre by my peers. It’s only when I fortunately got into Trinity on the DARE scheme and met some other people in college with invisible disabilities that I decided to become more comfortable with my DCD. Over the last three or so years, I’ve actively campaigned for the rights of disabled students both in Ireland and France and this year, I’m very glad to be the first ever Ability Co-op committee where we have strived to better the student life of students with disabilities on campus. I would like to thank Rachel and Courtney, my fellow committee members and close friends for helping me facilitate this project, I couldn’t have done it out without ye! I would also like to thank Sarah, Carla, Jani and Claudia for agreeing to be apart of the podcast, it was both empowering and inspiring to hear your stories, ye should be very proud of yourselves! I would also like to thank Harry and Moria, for editing the podcast and everyone else who helped with the testimonials and social media. My heart is so full and I appreciate every single one of you!"

"Being hard of hearing means I spent a lot of my growing up in an unintentional bubble. I was obsessed with reading and could easily disappear into other worlds and experience a great many things but one that eluded me was the concept of sound. While I was able to hear conversation next to me or notice music in the department store, I missed other things like the fact when someone turned away, they would still be speaking or that a car is as loud as it vibrates. I found out I was hard of hearing in my ASL class funny enough; they brought in machine for us to examine our eardrums, for laughs, and found mine completely scarred over. The ear drum, like a drumhead, is supposed to flex when noise hits it - when there is a percussion of sound - but mine does not move and so I hear very little. Even now I still love ASL for all it's given me. While I am not Deaf my hearing is not so good that I can get by quite on my own. I have hearing aids to help me out. They give me, as the saying goes, access to the roar of thunder.

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