Changing The Way We Talk About Disability
Changing The Way We Talk About Disability
Mental health Neurodivergence Biases Life experience
Amy Oulton
Amy is a disability rights advocate campaigning to change the way society understands disability.
You can take a wheelchair just about anywhere.
With lived experience of physical disabilities, mental health conditions and neurodivergence, Amy brings her personal history and stories to the awareness raising work she does, focusing on how to make the issues around disability relatable. She is a firm believer that by making conversations around the inclusion of disabled people part of the corporate agenda we normalise difference, to the benefit of all.
In this conference, she addresses societal perceptions of disability and her vision for how we all change the way we approach disability.
About Amy Oulton
Amy has been a wheelchair user for the past ten years; she has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a rare genetic condition that causes weak tissues, joint dislocation, chronic pain and fatigue. In spite of this, Amy lives an exciting and hugely positive life, travelling the world, working as a graphic designer for a charity and campaigning to change the way society understands disability. Here is the link to her Ted Talk.
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