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  2. Category:Plays and musicals about disability - Wikipedia

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    W. Wait Until Dark. The Who's Tommy. Whose Life Is It Anyway? (play) Categories: Works about disability. Plays by topic. Musicals by topic. Disability in the arts.

  3. List of autistic fictional characters - Wikipedia

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    All My Children: 2000 Mayuko Amemiya ... Tabletop role-playing game: 2023 Shuai Jiamo ... List of fictional characters with disabilities; Notes

  4. George Webster (presenter) - Wikipedia

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    Life and career Early life. Webster was born in Rawdon in West Yorkshire.He was born with Down syndrome, a condition caused by an extra copy of Chromosome 21. Growing up, he struggled to enunciate properly, prompting he and his family to learn Makaton; he used a March 2023 interview with the Telegraph & Argus to note that Mr Tumble was his role model growing up due to his use of the language.

  5. Behavioral script - Wikipedia

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    Some applied behavior analysts even use scripts to train new skills and 20 years of research supports script use as an effective way to build new language, social, and activity routines for adults and children with developmental disabilities. With language scripts fading, efforts are being made in an attempt to help the scripts recombine in ...

  6. Geovanni Gopradi - Wikipedia

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    After his first performance as Jerry in the play The Zoo Story, he decided to take acting professionally. Gopradi landed his first lead role in a 2006 short film The Options, followed by the character Rodriguez in Lost Everything. He also appeared on the television series Viva Hollywood, which aired on VH1.

  7. Teechers - Wikipedia

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    Teechers is a play by John Godber, written in 1984 and published in 1985. It was first performed by the Hull Truck Theatre Company at the 1987 Edinburgh Festival starring Martin Barass as Salty, Gill Tompkins as Gail and Shirley Anne Selby as Hobby. In 2010 a revival of the play was again performed at Hull Truck Theatre, before touring at other ...

  8. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

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    The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities [1] is an international human rights treaty of the United Nations intended to protect the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities. Parties to the convention are required to promote, protect, and ensure the full enjoyment of human rights by persons with disabilities and ensure ...

  9. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma - Wikipedia

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    Dlamini-Zuma was born and educated in the former Natal province, where, as a student, she became involved in the Black Consciousness Movement through the South African Students' Organisation. Between 1976 and 1990, she lived in exile outside South Africa, primarily in the United Kingdom and Swaziland, where she practiced medicine and engaged in ...