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36: For disability advocate, helping students navigate campus is personal

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When Derek Coates was 10, he found out he had a degenerative eye disease and was going to gradually lose his eyesight. Over the next 30 years, his visual world shrunk until he became completely blind at 41. Now, as a disability compliance officer at UC Berkeley, it’s his job to make sure students with disabilities are getting the accommodations they need to be academically successful.Read the transcript, see photos and find more disability resources on Berkeley News. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.