Disability: more than meets the eye | Pam Relph | TEDxUniversityofBirmingham (12:25)
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Paralympic Champion Pamela Relph discusses the changing perceptions of people with disabilities and how that has been affectedly the media.
Pam Relph MBE is a member of the Great Britain Paralympic Rowing Team. Pam was diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis at a young age and has severe degeneration in her right hand and wrist. Pam was on an army scholarship to attend Birmingham to study Physics and Astronomy, with a view to joining the Royal Engineers as an engineering officer. In 2010, this career was cut short due to her disability. Pam’s sister Monica, an international GB Rower herself, encouraged Pam to enquire into classification for Paralympic rowing. Within 10 months of her first rowing stroke, Pam was crowned World Champion in the Legs, Trunk and Arms Mixed Coxed 4 (LTA4+) classification. The following year Pam and her crew, against tough opposition, won Gold at the London 2012 Paralympic Games. Pam won consecutive world championship titles in 2013 and 2014. She is now training hard on the Road to Rio and for selection for the 2015 World Championship Team which will be heading out to France in August.
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