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From the Ted Talk by Elise Roy: When we design for disability, we all benefit
Unscramble the Blue Letters
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Open Cloze
Now, I also believe that people with ____________ have great potential to be _________ within this design-thinking process. Without knowing it, from a very early age, I've been a ______ thinker, fine-tuning my skills. Design ________ are, by ______, problem solvers. So imagine listening to a conversation and only understanding 50 percent of what is said. You can't ask them to repeat every single word. They would just get frustrated with you. So without even realizing it, my solution was to take the muffled sound I _____, that was the beat, and turn it into a rhythm and place it with the lips I read. Years later, someone commented that my _______ had a rhythm to it. Well, this is because I experience conversations as rhythms. I also became really, really good at failing.
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Original Text
Now, I also believe that people with disabilities have great potential to be designers within this design-thinking process. Without knowing it, from a very early age, I've been a design thinker, fine-tuning my skills. Design thinkers are, by nature, problem solvers. So imagine listening to a conversation and only understanding 50 percent of what is said. You can't ask them to repeat every single word. They would just get frustrated with you. So without even realizing it, my solution was to take the muffled sound I heard, that was the beat, and turn it into a rhythm and place it with the lips I read. Years later, someone commented that my writing had a rhythm to it. Well, this is because I experience conversations as rhythms. I also became really, really good at failing.
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