Deborah Kaplan (born January 17, 1950) is an American disability rights activist and attorney.
[6] Kaplan received her teaching credentials and was a substitute teacher at a public school for a while.
However, after several months of working these jobs, she decided to go to law school and was back at home with her parents in nearby Los Altos, California.
Kaplan then spent eight to nine months in rehab at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center.
She sent in her law applications and also decided to apply to University of California, Berkeley due to it being the only place that had disabled students program.