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Getting People To Talk About Disabilities

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We used to be rather unkind to people with disabilities in our society.  It wasn't so long ago the term "cripple" was still socially acceptable.

Times change, and so have attitudes about disabilities and the people who bear them. 

Oregon Humanities' "Conversation Project" brings the issue to communities around the state, led by Jill Crawford Hurt, who inherited a family neuropathy.  She joins us to explore the subject of attitudes toward people with disabilities; and the changes that have happened and are yet to come.   

 

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Geoffrey Riley is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has hosted the Jefferson Exchange on JPR since 2009. He's been a broadcaster in the Rogue Valley for more than 35 years, working in both television and radio.