Disability and Multilingualism

UNESCO is celebrating this International Literacy Day 2024 by highlighting multilingual changemakers on a global scale. Among them is Hari Srinivasan, a trailblazer for disability rights, who is a multilingual American child of immigrants

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Disability and Multilingualism

Growing up, Hari Srinivasan remembers repeatedly learning about St. Patrick’s Day in his special education classroom—a holiday that, while interesting, felt disconnected from his own cultural heritage.

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Disability and Multilingualism

 

The approach, shaped by clinicians who advised speaking only English to autistic children, paradoxically led to a loss of cultural identity rather than the inclusive exposure that neurotypical children might receive.

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UN International Literacy Day

I'm featured in an UN Article for International Literary Day on Sep 2. How cool is that!!

https://www.unesco.org/sdg4education2030/en/articles/meet-hari-autistic-minimally-speaking-multilingual-phd-student-changing-landscape-disability