Name: Judith Heumann - Defying Obstacles in "Being Heumann" and "Crip Camp" | The Daily Show
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Modal verbs - A2

Can I just say, reading-reading this book,

Past simple

-for how much of a badass you would be. -(chuckles)

Um, no, because you-you don't just advocate for human rights

and-and rights for people with disabilities,

I-I guess what really blew my mind about your story

is that I, specifically, have taken for granted

so many things in life that I feel like were always there--

ramps, you know, for getting into stores,

You lived in a world where that wasn't true,

What was that world like, before the world we live in today?

There were no federal laws that made it illegal

-Mm-hmm. -Obviously, the Civil Rights Act in the U.S.

and the disability community was not included in that.

So, my world was A) there were no motorized wheelchairs

-at that time, 'cause the technology wasn't there. -Right.

and I couldn't get across the street by myself,

-because there w-- there was a step on either side. -Wow.

so, you'll see in the book where I talk about going

from my parent's house to my neighbor's house,

But, um, as I got older, it became a bigger problem,

because the school in our neighborhood was not accessible.

My mother took me to that school, um-- P.S. 198.

After the laws came into being, in 1981, it was renovated.

But the principal denied me entrance into the school

But said not to worry because the Board of Education

-would send a teacher to my house. -Mm-hmm.

Which they did for a total of two and a half hours a week

for the first, second, third and half of the fourth grade.

that the landscape has changed in many ways.

But I can't just kind of say 'We're not leaving.'"

And I said, "We're not leaving. Call the police."

And of course, he didn't call the police.

But, um, I think what's really important...

It-it feels like that-that's been the story

you know, reminding people, or-or even exposing to people

how many obstacles so many people in our society face.

You call me "non-disabled"? Oh. I never know which term it is,

I call you "non-disabled" because we also, um...

Because the likelihood of you acquiring a disability,

if we don't have disabilities, versus how much of an impact

it makes positively in other people's lives.

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Judith Heumann - Defying Obstacles in "Being Heumann" and "Crip Camp" | The Daily Show

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