Joe Reddington pulled together the most viewed 43 TED talks with disability as a theme....
As before, there are a lot of talks that mention disability only in passing, or in the sense of “disabling the security”. So I ended up removing quite a few (I removed Dave Eggers with a heavy heart – I liked his so much that I went to visit the project in San Francisco). The problem, of course is that, this being TED, *everything* is inspirational and wonderful. Stephen Hawking even had his removed because it’s about the universe (it’s excellent, it’s just not disability-facing). Alice Dreger, as it happens is where I’m putting the boundary for now.
The plan was to then take the top 40 for this list.
The problem was that after you have removed all the ones that aren’t really about disability you end up with few left. 43 in fact. So this list contains all 43 mainstream disability TED talks. Please let me know in the comments all the ones that I’ve missed and then I can iterate the list in the same way as my list of disability blogs.