Is disability always about a person's body, or can the world around them create the biggest barriers? Sarah Tuberty challenges conventional ideas about disability and explains how inaccessible environments and social attitudes can limit participation. 🌎
Explore the power of community, representation, and inclusive design in creating a world where people with limb differences can show up as themselves without feeling they need to hide. 🤝
✅ Sarah introduces her experience as a person with congenital upper-limb difference and her involvement in the limb-difference community.
✅ Learn how her academic work and personal experiences helped her recognize the impact of ableism and internalized ableism.
✅ Explore why disability identity can feel complicated for people whose disabilities do not match common public perceptions.
✅ Sarah shares research findings about tweens who conceal their hands, avoid activities, or withdraw when they notice other people's stares.
✅ Discover how the social model of disability shifts attention from an individual's body to the barriers created by environments and social expectations.
✅ Understand how something as ordinary as a door handle can prevent access, while a lever-style handle may make the same doorway usable.
✅ Hear how Sarah's participation in Camp Winning Hands helped her connect with other people with limb differences and recognize the importance of community.
✅ Sarah explains why visibility matters and how sharing her experiences online helped others recognize that they were not alone.
✅ Learn how her “Ready, Willing, and Able” video became part of American Airlines' disability training for new flight attendants.
✅ Find ways to support the limb-difference community, including exploring the #LimbDifference, learning from lived experiences, and participating in Amputee Coalition initiatives.
An inclusive world starts when we stop asking people to fit into environments that exclude them and start designing environments where more people can belong. 🌍
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Thomas Jefferson University - Sarah Tuberty
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Sarah Tuberty, OTD, OTR/L, is an occupational therapist, educator, researcher, and disability advocate whose work is deeply rooted in supporting the limb difference and limb loss community.
Drawing from both professional expertise and lived experience with a congenital upper limb difference, she has spent more than 15 years engaged in community-based programming, mentorship, education, and advocacy, including longstanding leadership with Camp Winning Hands and community engagement for children and families with limb differences.
She is completing her PhD in Occupational Therapy and her research focuses on the lived experiences, social participation, and identity development of young people with congenital upper limb differences, with an emphasis on elevating their voices and experiences.
She is a new Assistant Professor at Thomas Jefferson University in their Dapartment of Occupational therapy. Across her clinical, academic, and advocacy work, Sarah is committed to advancing disability awareness, challenging stigma, promoting inclusive practices, and strengthening resources and communities that empower the people connected to disability.
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