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Sheri Brynard

Sheri Brynard PhD

Healthcare Management
Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa

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Sheri Brynard of South Africa is the only person with Down syndrome who is a qualified teacher with a tertiary teacher’s diploma, in the world. She is also an international ambassador for all people with Down syndrome. She truly believes that all people have the ability to choose to make the best of their circumstances and she is the living example of that. She is currently an assistant teacher in a Pre-primary school for learners with special needs and she gives motivational speeches all over the world. Sheri tries to change negative perceptions about people with Down syndrome and she is an activist to give all people with Down syndrome the same opportunities they would have had, if they were fully abled. Although she is intellectually disabled and she was brought up in the Afrikaans language, she was determined to learn to speak English to be able to reach more people with her story of hope.