Aya Iwamoto

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Aya Iwamoto ( Japanese 岩 元 綾 , Iwamoto Aya ; * 1973 in Kagoshima ) is a Japanese translator who was born with Down's syndrome .

Life

She attended a Catholic Montessori kindergarten and mainstream school, Makizono High School in Kirishima . She finished school in 1993. She studied English literature at the Kagoshima Women's University (today: Shigakukan University ), graduating in 1998. She was one of the first people with Down's syndrome to graduate from university, and so far is next to the Spaniard Pablo Pineda and the Italian Francesco Aglio is one of three people who graduated despite Down syndrome. Aya Iwamoto's achievement was recognized by the president of the university in his speech to the graduating class: "That must give hope and encourage people with the same disabilities." In the same year she gave a fifteen-minute speech in English at the 3rd Asia Pacific Down Syndrome Conference “In Auckland , New Zealand, where she shared her experience. She works as a translator of children's books.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Aya Iwamoto: My dream came true: Everyone is the same human, same life. In: down syndrome education online. Retrieved November 30, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Knabl: Down syndrome: Disabled - and gifted In: Die Presse online from April 10, 2010
  3. ↑ The triple gene 21 in: DerWesten from March 19, 2010
  4. ↑ Elisabeth Winterroither: People with Down syndrome: enrichment vs. Challenge for society, prenatal diagnostics and nursing science (PDF; 3.8 MB). Vienna 2010, p. 25
  5. ^ André Frank Zimpel: What is normal? ( Memento from April 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Frankfurt am Main 2009
  6. ↑ Aya Iwamoto, speaker at the New Zealand Downs Syndrome Conference (English)
personal data
SURNAME Iwamoto, Aya
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 岩 元 綾 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese translator with Down syndrome
DATE OF BIRTH 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Kagoshima