Amplifying Silent Voices: A Higher Education Revolution | DeAnna Pursai | TEDxViikki

Amplifying Silent Voices: A Higher Education Revolution | DeAnna Pursai | TEDxViikki

This talk paints the picture of DeAnna's experience growing up with her sister, who happens to have Down syndrome. After a jolting doctor’s message at her sister’s birth, her mother decides to take her child home in 1973 and raise her with the same standards and expectations of her other children. It was a joyful and e