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Kōrero: Disability and disability organisations

Workplace achievers: Sandra Schmidt

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Workplace achievers: Sandra Schmidt

New technology has made it easier for many people with disabilities to enter or remain in the labour market. In 2006 Sandra Schmidt, an information officer at the Royal New Zealand Institute of the Blind, used a magnified screen, contact lenses and thick glasses to enable her to do her work. 

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New Zealand Herald

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Martin Sullivan, Disability and disability organisations – Patterns of disability, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/29192/workplace-achievers-sandra-schmidt (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Martin Sullivan, i tāngia i te 30 March 2011.