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These High Schoolers Are Calling For A National Disability History Museum By Making Their Own

A group of Massachusetts 11th-graders spent the school year collecting documents and artifacts, including an early 20th century precursor of a hearing aid.
Gann Academy students Gabe Rosen and Elianna Gerut are two of the curators of the "Disability History of the United States" exhibit at the Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation in Waltham, Mass. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

A group of students from Gann Academy in Waltham, Massachusetts, spent the school year collecting documents and artifacts to create a museum exhibit on the history of disability in America.

They also investigated the checkered history of a local institution that experimented on disabled boys in

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