Disability Daily Podcast
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Katie Healey (she/her), PhD, CPACC ✨
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- Today on the #Disability Daily Podcast we celebrate #polio survivor & #actor with #Parkinson’s disease, Alan Alda! Listen & read transcript #accessibility #ParkinsonsDisease #MASH #TVSky #AlanAlda #ScienceCommunication #improv #Hawkeye #MedSky #medicine #science #Hollywood #TheWestWing #TV #legend
- Today on the #Disability Daily Podcast we celebrate Dr. Masud Husain Khan, #Indian #linguist with #Parkinsons disease. Please like & subscribe! Listen & read transcript #accessibility #linguistics #Urdu #language #India #UCBerkeley #jamiaMilliaIslamia #morphology #phonetics #ParkinsonsDisease
- Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate #Irish revolutionary & #polio survivor Seán Mac Diarmada! Listen & read transcript #Ireland #DisabilityDaily #History #IrishHistory #activist #SeanMacDiarmada #EasterRising #accessibility #IrishRepublicanBrotherhood #tiocfaidhárlá #limp #Éire
- Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate legally #blind #Judge Vanessa Lynne Bryant! Listen & read transcript #DisabilityDaily #accessibility #LegallyBlind #a11y #CT #law #GayMarriage #HowardUniversity @howard.edu #BlackLawyers #UConn #UconnLaw #NAACP #MarriageEquality #rights #legal
- Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we recognize Möbius Syndrome Awareness Day. Listen & read transcript: tinyurl.com/DisabilityDaily Please subscribe on Spotify, Apple & Amazon! #MoebiusSyndrome #RareConditions #neurology #accessibility #health #FacialParalysis #FacialDifference #awareness
- Today on the #Disability Daily Podcast we celebrate Neil Diamond, singer-songwriter with #Parkinsons. Listen & read transcript: tinyurl.com/DisabilityDaily Please subscribe on Spotify, Apple & Amazon! #NeilDiamond #BOTD #Music #MusicSky #Jewish #SingerSongwriter #SweetCaroline #ParkinsonsDisease
- Happy Ed Roberts Day! Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we commemorate the extraordinary life & work of #EdRoberts, father of the #DisabilityRights & #IndependentLiving movements. Listen & read transcript: tinyurl.com/DisabilityDaily #polio #Berkeley #history #accessibility #EduSky #DisHist
- Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we remember American #gospel #blues musician #Blind Willie Johnson. Listen & read transcript: tinyurl.com/DisabilityDaily #music #guitar #a11y #VoyagerGoldenRecord #LowVision #accessibility #NASA #Texas #DarkWasTheNight #MusicSky #BlindWillieJohnson #listen
- Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate Gaelynn Lea, #folk musician & disability #advocate with #OsteogenesisImperfecta. Listen & read transcript: tinyurl.com/DisabilityDaily #violin #music #wheelchair #TinyDesk #accessibility #Broadway #Macbeth #speaker @gaelynnlea.bsky.social
- Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we recognize #blind English #mathematician Nicholas Saunderson. Listen & read transcript: tinyurl.com/DisabilityDaily #England #DisabledInSTEM #math #history #DisHist #Cambridge #smallpox #accessibility #EduSky #a11y #statistics #STEM #stats #STEMTeachers
- Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate the founding of #BestBuddies International in 1989 Listen & read transcript: tinyurl.com/DisabilityDaily #BestBuddiesInternational #InclusionMatters #IDDs #inclusion #IntellectualDisabilities #DevelopmentalDisabilities #accessibility #friendship
- Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate #blind country musician Hargus “Pig” Robbins! Listen & read transcript: tinyurl.com/DisabilityDaily #CountryMusic #accessibility #keyboard #piano #LowVision #MusicSky #BlindMusician #music #country #Listen #Nashville #CountryMusicHallOfFame
- Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate the GOAT himself, #MuhammadAli, who was #dyslexic & had #Parkinson’s disease. Listen & read transcript: tinyurl.com/DisabilityDaily #Dyslexia #ParkinsonsDisease #Boxing #a11y #history #sports #BlackHistory #CivilRights #Islam #RacialJustice
- Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate Anders Gustaf Ekeberg, #deaf #Swedish #chemist who discovered #tantalum. Listen & read transcript: tinyurl.com/DisabilityDaily #DeafInSTEM #DisabledInSTEM #chemistry #education #accessibility #HearingLoss #deafness #history #EduSky #STEM #a11y
- Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate #Deafblind actor Robert Tarango! Listen and read transcript: tinyurl.com/DisabilityDaily #accessibility #deaf #blind #LowVision #UsherSyndrome #FeelingThrough #deafblindness #deafness #blindness #Representation #RepresentationMatters
- Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate #Bahraini #polio survivor, mechanical #engineer & human rights activist Dr. Abduljalil Al-Singace! Listen & read transcript: tinyurl.com/DisabilityDaily #Bahrain #accessibility #poliovirus #HumanRights #activism #Amnesty #HungerStrike #EduSky
- Please take action for Dr. Al-Singace: www.scholarsatrisk.org/actions/abduljalil-al-singace-bahrain/
- Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate the anniversary of the launch of the Be My Eyes #app in 2015. Listen & read transcript: tinyurl.com/DisabilityDaily #BeMyEyes #BeMyEyesApp #Blind #LowVision #Volunteer #volunteering #tech #Acccessibility #AccessibilityForAll #a11y #technology
- Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate #blind American #musician & #singer-songwriter Clarence Carter. Listen & read transcript: tinyurl.com/DisabilityDaily #accessibility #a11y #braille #music #LowVision #history #Alabama #blues #soul #RnB #blindness #MusicBirthdays #guitar #listen
- Photo of Carter by John Mathew Smith & www.celebrity-photos.com
- On this day in 1919, German #prosthetics company #Ottobock was founded to help wounded soldiers. Listen & read transcript: tinyurl.com/DisabilityDaily #history #accessibility #a11y #prosthesis #WW1 #Germany #deutschland #OnThisDay #TodayInHistory #LimbLoss #DisabilityDaily #January13 #Military
- Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate #Deaf & craniofacial difference advocate Andy Pleasants! Listen & read transcript: tinyurl.com/DisabilityDaily #CraniofacialDifference #tracheostomy #accessibility #a11y #AndyPleasants #craniofacial #AndySigns #ASL #PleasantAndy #trach
- Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate Charles Dail, a #polio survivor & #mayor of San Diego. Listen & read transcript: tinyurl.com/DisabilityDaily #SanDiego #Salk #CA #accessibility #a11y #history #UCSD @salkinstitute.bsky.social #vaccines #vaccine #LaJolla #California #medicine
- Dail photo: City of San Diego; Salk Institute photo: Salk Institute website
- Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we discuss #German #anatomist & #hemophiliac Dr. Gunther von Hagens, #plastination, & his Body Worlds exhibits. Listen & read transcript: tinyurl.com/DisabilityDaily #anatomy #body #BodyWorlds #accessibility #a11y #hemophilia #ParkinsonsDisease #Parkinsons
- Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate Tony Meléndez, renowned #musician born without arms due to #thalidomide. Listen & read transcript: tinyurl.com/DisabilityDaily #guitar #music #singer #songwriter #MedicalHistory #DisabilityHistory #LimbDifference #accessibility #a11y #guitarist
- Photo by Lindsay Steele/The Catholic Messenger
- Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate theoretical #physicist Dr. Stephen #Hawking, who had #AmyotrophicLateralSclerosis (ALS). Listen & read transcript: tinyurl.com/DisabilityDaily #STEM #DisabledInSTEM #physics #NASA #EduSky #LouGerhigsDisease #MIT #accessibility #a11y #space #ALS
- Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we honor Judge Myron Thompson, #polio survivor & Senior #Judge of the US District Court for the Middle District of #Alabama. Listen & read transcript: tinyurl.com/DisabilityDaily #accessibility #a11y #DisHist #law #history #PolioAwareness #PlannedParenthood
- #Yale #ReproductiveHealth Photo from United States Courts
- Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate #quadriplegic American #architect & #sculptor Tom Luckey! Listen & read transcript #quadriplegia #paralysis #accessibility #a11y #architecture #ADA #Inclusion #kids #children #play #wheelchair #art #DisabilityAwareness #Disabled #DisabledArtist
- Photo from Coneflower Studios
- Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate Lucy Gwin, founder of the radical disability rights magazine Mouth. Listen & read transcript #TBI #RochesterNY #NotDeadYet #a11y #accessibility #ADA #BrainInjury #DisLabeled #DisabilityRights #history #DisHist #DisabilityHistory #medicine
- Mouth Magazine cover from University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Today is World #Braille Day, which commemorates the birthday of Louis Braille, a French #blind instructor, musician & inventor of a tactile system for reading & writing. Learn more on the #Disability Daily Podcast! Listen & read transcript #history #LowVision #accessibility #a11y #reading #DisHist
- Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we honor Dr. Jacob Bolotin, considered the world's first practicing #blind physician. Listen & read transcript #DisabilityHistory #history #DisHist #DisabledInSTEM #EduSky #teachers #braille #MedSky #HistMed #MedicalHistory #SkyStorians #NFB #Jewish #a11y
- Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate #blind Canadian children's #author Jean Little, whose work celebrated disability! Listen & read transcript #DisabilityHistory #accessibility #a11y #Canada #history #KidLit #books #BookSky #EduSky #fiction #teachers #glaucoma #BookSky #LowVision
- Welcome back & thanks for your patience while I get back into podcasting! Let's learn together in 2026! Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we honor disability activist Alan Reich. Listen & read transcript #quadriplegic #wheelchair #paralysis #FDR #ADA #history #a11y #voting #UN #Harvard
