translated from Spanish: Matías Alaniz, first teacher with disability at the UNAM

“a small step for me, but a great step for inclusion”, so it was like Matías Álvarez Alaniz, a young girl with encephalopathy Athetoid (paralysis that makes it difficult speech, vision, and motion) announced that it will become Professor of the Open University system and education at distance (SUAyED) of the Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales (FCPyS) of the UNAM.
The young will begin to teach this March 3 in mode remote. According to the University, learning and development has made it with the help of programs that are installed on your computer and in the wheelchair that uses: the Jaws, which converts the image to text, and the Open book, which reads the text, and with a chosen voice allows that he heard the content.

#BoletínUNAM moves the UNAM as an inclusive institution: integrates the first professor in disability status > https://t.co/c6mkYepqTt pic.twitter.com/asXVF2olUf – press room, UNAM (@SalaPrensaUNAM) February 28, 2019 in 2016, Matias was titled with Honorable mention with his work “the Mexican political system, its main mechanisms of preservation (1968-1994)”; It will now produce the society and State matter in Mexico II, of the same race that attended, political science and public administration.
“My appointment as teacher shows that persons with disabilities have the ability to perform work if you give us the opportunity to equal, what compels me even more to put all my effort and dedication in this responsibility to the” Mexican society see that disability is not an impediment to our development”, he said to sign his contract as teacher in Matias was chosen by a Committee and by the technical Council of the faculty, after a critical matter that program now it will produce.
The young scholar credited in record time, from your computer in Guadalajara, matters of degree and graduated with honors.

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