Once a Student With Disabilities, This Memphis Educator Returned to a Special Education Classroom to Empower Children Like Her
December 9, 2019
By: Caroline Bauman
Source: Chalkbeat
Jamilyn Cole’s own experiences as a young student with disabilities put her on a long, winding path to becoming a special education teacher herself.
“I was surrounded by stories of Helen Keller, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, and Louis Braille,” said Cole, adding that the books on artists and leaders who had disabilities were a large inspiration to her. “By second grade I told my family that I wanted to be a preschool teacher of deaf or blind children.”