call. >> JULIA: Great, thank you. On slide 10 at this point I'm going to go through a few different aspects of accessibility and for each of those areas of access and accessibility I'm going to talk about some common barriers that people with disabilities might encounter, some ways that those barriers miilt overlap with barriers experienced by people with other disability. I want to preface this by saying that there is a lot of variety and diversity within people with cognitive disabilities so nothing I say should be assumed to be true for every single person with a cognitive disability. There is's going to be a lot of variation and experience. I'm going to slide 11 now. Let's start by talking about sensory barriers. A lot of cognitive disabilities, particularly autism but people with learning disabilities and intellectual disabilities, for example, encounter a lot of barriers around sensory processing. For many people with cognitive disabilities sensory processing might be al tered in some way. So flash photography can be a huge barrier and people with epilepsy. So flash photography can be life threatening, it could cause migraines or panic attacks. Noise level can be a huge issue. This is something that's often not taken into account in organizing especially when you're trying to corral a large group of people. It can be a huge barrier to participation, again, the autistic community but for other meem with disabilities as well. Side conversations can present a problem. If you're having a meeting or a conversation and there's a main conversation going on but two or three people are breaking off to about something else or exchange some information or figure out whether or not people want coffee or whatever, that could make it impossible to understand what's going on and participate for someone with a cognitive disability. Microphone feedback is a huge problem again for people with sensory processing impairment. It can be very painful, it can disrupt's a person's ability to participate, it could
call. >> JULIA: Great, thank you. On slide 10 at this point I'm going to go through a few different aspects of accessibility and for each of those areas of access and accessibility I'm going to talk about some common barriers that people with disabilities might encounter, some ways that those barriers miilt overlap with barriers experienced by people with other disability. I want to preface this by saying that there is a lot of variety and diversity within people with cognitive disabilities so nothing I say should be assumed to be true for every single person with a cognitive disability. There is's going to be a lot of variation and experience. I'm going to slide 11 now. Let's start by talking about sensory barriers. A lot of cognitive disabilities, particularly autism but people with learning disabilities and intellectual disabilities, for example, encounter a lot of barriers around sensory processing. For many people with cognitive disabilities sensory processing might be al tered in some way. So flash photography can be a huge barrier and people with epilepsy. So flash photography can be life threatening, it could cause migraines or panic attacks. Noise level can be a huge issue. This is something that's often not taken into account in organizing especially when you're trying to corral a large group of people. It can be a huge barrier to participation, again, the autistic community but for other meem with disabilities as well. Side conversations can present a problem. If you're having a meeting or a conversation and there's a main conversation going on but two or three people are breaking off to about something else or exchange some information or figure out whether or not people want coffee or whatever, that could make it impossible to understand what's going on and participate for someone with a cognitive disability. Microphone feedback is a huge problem again for people with sensory processing impairment. It can be very painful, it can disrupt's a person's ability to participate, it could
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