In episode four of The Human Experience of Disability, Sarah explores and opens the dialogue of what is considered beautiful in this country and how disability does not coincide with such ideas or standards. Sarah offers her perspective as a way to open up the dialogue in order to challenge listeners to think deeper about the idea of beauty and disability.

In the third episode of The Human experience of Disability Sarah explains how self-advocacy is one of the most important ways that the community of people that experience disabilities is able to get their voices heard and be recognized as respectable and contributing citizens of society. She shares a personal event while being in college; where her ability to self advocate shaped the way she navigate it through college and the rest of her adult life. Sarah believes that self- advocacy is a tool that is vital for people who experience disabilities and their support system to have and master.

Disability history is rarely talked about. In this Episode Vazquez talks about disability history from the perspective of how people who experience disabilities were institutionalized and considered as subhumans in society. She also talks about some of the civil rights laws that helped people who experience disabilities to gain access education and some opportunities for community inclusion. Lastly, shares how advocacy was and is a vital part of ensuring that the community that experience disabilities continue to have access to full and inclusive lives.

In this first episode Sarah Vazquez explains the importance of language as it relates to the community of people that experiences disability. She discusses how words matter because they shape how people are presented to the world. She speaks to the historic way people who experience disabilities have been verbally described, and how language has influence society’s views, addresses and treats people who experience disabilities. In addition, Vazquez explores how the community that experience has disability has advocated to be addressed with respect and dignity regards to the language used to describe their disability experience while gaining self empowerment.

Find out who Sarah Helena Vazquez is and her perspective on the disability experience from an personal and professional points of view. Vazquez is a author, advocate and national speaker. She shares her personal upbringing and how she was raised to believe in herself and view her diagnosis of cerebral palsy as just and label. She invites listeners to consider the disability experience more than a diagnosis. She encourages people to think about disability as a human experience that takes many different forms. She wants The audience to think of the disability community as a vital part of society who contributes to it any positive way.