Category Archives: Background
Reclaiming my Deaf Lineage
It is important to recognize and understand our ancestors and the struggles that they may have had as being part of a minority population that has been stigmatized and hidden in the shadows of family trees. By reclaiming and retelling our family stories and including, and being proud, of what they had to go through, whether they were queer, disabled or otherwise marginalized, like putting a stone on their headstone, it honors their lives and blesses their memory.
What was the DIAL Clinic?
Jacobus Tenbroek As to man, in any event, nothing could be more essential to personality, social existence, economic opportunity—in short, to individual well-being and integration into the life of the community—than the physical capacity, the public approval, and the legal right to be abroad in the land. Tenbroek, Jacobus, The Right to Live in… Read More »
From Park Avenue Penthouse to Puppy Pit: Miami Lawyer Matthew Dietz Won’t Stop Advocating
Rachel Lean – Sept. 13 2019 Miami civil rights attorney Matthew W. Dietz has spent 20 years stepping on toes by pushing the envelope on Florida’s Americans with Disabilities policies. But it wasn’t the path his parents had expected him to follow. Dietz grew up in a penthouse apartment on Park Avenue in New… Read More »
Professor Takes the Offense in Defense of Those with Disabilities
If you’re looking for a crusader for justice when it comes to disability and accessibility, NSU Professor Matthew Dietz has the credentials. Since 2022, Dietz has been the clinical director of the Disability Inclusion and Advocacy Law Clinic in NSU’s Shepard Broad College of Law. His commitment to defending those with disabilities runs deep. Throughout his life,… Read More »
Miami Herald 5/19/23 Op-Ed–Take Steps
An adequate transportation system that provides equal access is an essential component to ensuring persons with disabilities can live independently.