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In addition to visiting a college campus, talking with students — especially students with similar disabilities — can give you a fuller picture of campus life.
Jonathan Lengel, who lives with congenital
muscular dystrophy, (CMD) and uses a power wheelchair, is pursuing a
double major in digital technologies/emerging media and music at Fordham
University’s Lincoln Center campus in New York City, asked Fordham to connect
him to another wheelchair user on campus.
He asked them if campus facilities
have accessible entrances, if elevators are well-maintained, and whether the
university does a good job of clearing ice and snow from the accessible paths
of travel.
It was invaluable to get this
information from a source with lived experience.
“They are the keys to the kingdom —
find out how their experience has been,” he says.
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