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Exhibits » access/ABILITY

Access/ABILITY is a disability awareness exhibit showing that with or without disabilities, we
are all participants in the world!
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.

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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