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Access/ABILITY is a disability awareness exhibit showing that with or without disabilities, we are all participants in the world!Girl on hand-pedaled bike

Access/ABILITY is organized into six main exhibit areas:

  • Going Places: Try out a wheelchair obstacle course and a Multisensory City Walk.
  • Talk With Me: Learn phrases in American Sign Language, type your name in Braille, and communicate using pictures.
  • Just For Fun!: Ride a hand-pedaled bike, and create art that you can experience through sight, touch, and sounds.
  • Think About It: Test your attention and memory skills, and
    find out what kind of smart you are.
  • Invent It, where you can experience a design challenge, see how there is
    more than one way to do something, and learn how things can be designed
    to work for the most number of people.
  • Resource Area: Learn more through books and on-line resources.

Girl with walking stick

Access/ABILITY provides an arena in which for children to safely ask questions disbilities and receive open and honest answers.

 

The Goals of Access/ABILITY are:

• Dispel myths and allay fears about people with disabilities


• Increase visitors’ awareness of a broad range of disabilities, including
“hidden” disabilities, such as learning disabilities


• Foster communication and social skills around
disability issues


• Change disabling attitudes, foster an attitude of inclusion and encourage curiosity about strategies, tools, and technologies that enable all people to participate fully in society

Access/ABILITY was created by Boston Children’s Museum and sponsored nationally by MetLife Foundation. All underlying materials are used with the permission of Boston Children’s Museum.

 

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