Disability Daily Podcast
Discover a new figure or event in disability history each day!
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Friday Apr 11, 2025
Friday Apr 11, 2025
Transcript
Today we celebrate deaf physicist, engineer, & co-inventor of the teletypewriter, Robert Weitbrecht!
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Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a quick daily podcast, and I’m excited to share this with you!
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Learn more:
Deaf TTY inventor - Robert Weitbrecht - Atomic Hands
TTY Abbreviations | RI DHS Office of Rehabilitation Services
Stacey Shapiro TTY Story
Relay Communication Services (TTY version)
Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound
Friday Apr 11, 2025
Friday Apr 11, 2025
Transcript
Today we celebrate actor David Harbour with bipolar disorder & blind newspaper magnate Joseph Pulitzer.
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Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a quick daily podcast, and I’m excited to share this with you!
If you’re committed to learning more about disability and accessibility, please subscribe to the podcast on Podbean, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and share with friends.
See the Disability Daily Calendar (work on it is always ongoing!)
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Learn more:
David Harbour: 'Stranger Things was different from anything I’ve ever experienced in my career' - Big Issue
Biography of Joseph Pulitzer
Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound
Wednesday Apr 09, 2025
Wednesday Apr 09, 2025
Transcript
Today we celebrate Polish-American mathematician, inventor & electrical engineer with dwarfism, Charles Proteus Steinmetz!
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Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a quick daily podcast, and I’m excited to share this with you!
If you’re committed to learning more about disability and accessibility, please subscribe to the podcast on Podbean, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and share with friends.
See the Disability Daily Calendar (work on it is always ongoing!)
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Learn more:
Divine Discontent: Charles Proteus Steinmetz | PBS
Charles Proteus Steinmetz Papers | Special Collections And Archives | Union College
Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound
Monday Apr 07, 2025
Monday Apr 07, 2025
Transcript
Today we celebrate Pulitzer-prize winning journalist with arthrogryposis, Serge Kovaleski, blind teacher José Álvares de Azevedo, and the founding of Gallaudet University for the Deaf and hard of hearing in 1864.
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Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a quick daily podcast, and I’m excited to share this with you!
If you’re committed to learning more about disability and accessibility, please subscribe to the podcast on Podbean, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and share with friends.
See the Disability Daily Calendar (work on it is always ongoing!)
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Learn more:
Serge F. Kovaleski - The New York Times
José Álvares de Azevedo's Google Doodle
A Charter and a Champion: The Meaning of Lincoln's Legacy at Gallaudet
Abe Lincoln Memorial Statue Letters "A" and "L" initials?
Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound
Monday Apr 07, 2025
Monday Apr 07, 2025
Transcript
Today we honor disability rights activist with muscular dystrophy Kitty Cone & polio survivor and filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola.
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Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a quick daily podcast, and I’m excited to share this with you!
If you’re committed to learning more about disability and accessibility, please subscribe to the podcast on Podbean, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and share with friends.
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Learn more:
Kitty Cone: Advocate for Disability Rights | Smithsonian American Women's History Museum
Overlooked No More: Kitty Cone, Trailblazer of the Disability Rights Movement - The New York Times
How Did Kitty Cone Change Disability Rights?
Francis Ford Coppola shares harrowing story of being a polio survivor
A Tribute to Francis Ford Coppola: One of Cinema’s Unforgettable Directors
Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound
Sunday Apr 06, 2025
Sunday Apr 06, 2025
Transcript
Today we celebrate Ghanaian software engineer with cerebral palsy, Farida Bedwei, and Deaf actor, Lauren Ridloff!
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Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a quick daily podcast, and I’m excited to share this with you!
If you’re committed to learning more about disability and accessibility, please subscribe to the podcast on Podbean, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and share with friends.
See the Disability Daily Calendar (work on it is always ongoing!)
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Learn more:
Farida Bedwei | Ghana's Tech Trailblazer | Software Engineer | Comic Author
Solving African problems our own way | Farida Nana Efua Bedwei | TEDxAccra
KARMZAH! Interview with Creator Farida Bedwei
Karmzah – Leti Arts
Interview with Lauren Ridloff from “The Eternals”
Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound
Friday Apr 04, 2025
Friday Apr 04, 2025
Transcript
Today we celebrate the anniversary of the start to the 504 Sit-In (1977), Deaf orthodontist and TTY inventor Dr. James Carlyle Marsters & Israeli disability rights activist with muscular dystrophy, Alex Fridman.
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Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a quick daily podcast, and I’m excited to share this with you!
If you’re committed to learning more about disability and accessibility, please subscribe to the podcast on Podbean, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and share with friends.
See the Disability Daily Calendar (work on it is always ongoing!)
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Learn more:
Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution
His Ingenuity Helped the Deaf Tap the Power of Telephones - WSJ
Alex Fridman
Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound
Friday Apr 04, 2025
Friday Apr 04, 2025
Transcript
Today we honor poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou & Deaf NASA engineer Johanna Lucht!
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Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a quick daily podcast, and I’m excited to share this with you!
If you’re committed to learning more about disability and accessibility, please subscribe to the podcast on Podbean, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and share with friends.
See the Disability Daily Calendar (work on it is always ongoing!)
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Learn more:
Maya Angelou
Biography: Maya Angelou
Johanna Lucht: Engineer Extraordinaire - NASA
Johanna Lucht - Deaf Scientist
Innovate Pasadena Presents: Johanna Lucht (interview)
Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound
Thursday Apr 03, 2025
Thursday Apr 03, 2025
Transcript
Today we celebrate Dr. Jane Goodall, who has prosopagnosia (face blindness) & the anniversary of the first Little People of America Convention in 1957.
*Note: This episode briefly mentions a historical organization in whose title contains the M-word. Today, this is a highly offensive slur against people with dwarfism to be avoided entirely. It was, however, a term used to distinguish particular medical traits from others with short stature. Words have power, and their uses and connotations change over time. Please listen–and speak–with care.
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Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a quick daily podcast, and I’m excited to share this with you!
If you’re committed to learning more about disability and accessibility, please subscribe to the podcast on Podbean, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and share with friends.
See the Disability Daily Calendar (work on it is always ongoing!)
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Learn more:
Do You Have Face Blindness!? (Prosopagnosia Explained)
1957 - A Midgets of America convention is held in Reno, Nevada. - DVarchive
Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound
Tuesday Apr 01, 2025
Tuesday Apr 01, 2025
Transcript
Today we celebrate World Autism Acceptance Day & blind British physician, Dr. Thomas Rhodes Armitage.
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Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a quick daily podcast, and I’m excited to share this with you!
If you’re committed to learning more about disability and accessibility, please subscribe to the podcast on Podbean, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and share with friends.
See the Disability Daily Calendar (work on it is always ongoing!)
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Learn more:
Autistic Self Advocacy Network
Autism Acceptance Month: Celebrate Differences - The Arc
Dr Thomas Armitage
April 2: Thomas Rhodes Armitage (Penny L. Richards)
Thomas Armitage, founder of RNIB
Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound