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Annie Glenn, who in a high-profile life as the wife of John Glenn, the astronaut and senator, became an inspiration to many who, like her, stuttered severely, advocating on behalf of people with communication disorders of all kinds, died on Tuesday at a nursing home near St. Paul, Minn. She was 100.

Nearly a decade later, after struggling for years to find fulfilling work, Dunn became the driving force behind a state bill to provide alternative graduation paths for students with disabilities. Working with a group of advocates, Dunn testified in committees and spent long hours meeting with legislators, explaining how being denied a diploma made her feel undervalued and shut her out of jobs for which she was qualified. Her story brought some lawmakers to tears.

He went to public schools in the Seattle suburbs, and his parents insisted that he not be treated differently than other children were. Habib has often told the story of how his mother, Susan Amini, responded when she learned that he was being kept on the sidelines of the school playground because he was blind and administrators worried that he’d hurt himself: She marched to the principal’s office, declared that she would teach him the layout of the playground and demanded that he be given full access to it from then on. A broken arm, she said, could be fixed more easily than a broken spirit.

Separately, a study by a large consortium of private service providers found that residents of group homes and similar facilities in New York City and surrounding areas were 5.34 times more likely than the general population to develop Covid-19 and 4.86 times more likely to die from it. What’s more, nearly 10 percent of the homes’ residents were displaying Covid-like symptoms but had not yet been tested, according to the consortium, New York Disability Advocates.

But then came the big problem: the reading portion of the exam.

The agent said they received his request for Braille, but, unfortunately, USCIS did not have Braille available.

They just had large print.

“I’m like, I don’t read large print,” he said. “I’m totally blind.”