Disability Daily Podcast

Promotional graphic for a January 28 episode of the Disability Daily Podcast featuring Alan Alda. The poster includes the podcast logo and a camouflage background, with a photo of a young Alda in character as Hawkeye from MASH, wearing military attire and looking toward the camera. Text identifies him as a polio survivor and actor with Parkinson’s.

Today on the #Disability Daily Podcast we celebrate #polio survivor & #actor with #Parkinson’s disease, Alan Alda!

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#accessibility #ParkinsonsDisease #MASH #TVSky #AlanAlda #ScienceCommunication #improv #Hawkeye #MedSky #medicine #science #Hollywood #TheWestWing #TV #legend

Promotional graphic for a January 28 episode of the Disability Daily Podcast featuring Dr. Masud Husain Khan. The poster includes the podcast logo and a background filled with script from an Arabic-language learning chart, along with a black-and-white portrait of Khan wearing a dark jacket and tie over a white shirt and large glasses. Text identifies him as an Indian linguist with Parkinson’s disease.

Today on the #Disability Daily Podcast we celebrate Dr. Masud Husain Khan, #Indian #linguist with #Parkinsons disease.

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#accessibility #linguistics #Urdu #language #India #UCBerkeley #jamiaMilliaIslamia #morphology #phonetics #ParkinsonsDisease

Promotional graphic for a January 27 episode of the Disability Daily Podcast featuring Seán Mac Diarmada. The poster includes the podcast logo and a background of the Irish flag, with a black-and-white portrait of Mac Diarmada wearing a dark tie, vest, and jacket over a white shirt. His hair is slicked back as he looks off to his left with a serious expression. Text identifies him as an Irish republican political activist and polio survivor.

Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate #Irish revolutionary & #polio survivor Seán Mac Diarmada!

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#Ireland #DisabilityDaily #History #IrishHistory #activist #SeanMacDiarmada #EasterRising #accessibility #IrishRepublicanBrotherhood #tiocfaidhárlá #limp #Éire

Promotional graphic for a January 27 episode of the Disability Daily Podcast featuring Judge Vanessa Lynne Bryant. The poster includes the podcast logo and a background with scales of justice, along with a black-and-white portrait of Bryant smiling. She has short hair with bangs and wears a dark jacket, light necklace, and earrings. Text identifies her as a legally blind senior U.S. District Judge.

Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate legally #blind #Judge Vanessa Lynne Bryant!

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#DisabilityDaily #accessibility #LegallyBlind #a11y #CT #law #GayMarriage #HowardUniversity @howard.edu #BlackLawyers #UConn #UconnLaw #NAACP #MarriageEquality #rights #legal

Promotional graphic for a January 24 episode of the Disability Daily Podcast highlighting Moebius Syndrome Awareness Day. The poster includes the podcast logo, a white background with purple heart shapes, and a purple circle containing white text that reads “Look Beyond Face Value” and “Moebius Syndrome Awareness Day.”

Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we recognize Möbius Syndrome Awareness Day.

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#MoebiusSyndrome #RareConditions #neurology #accessibility #health #FacialParalysis #FacialDifference #awareness

Promotional graphic for a January 24 episode of the Disability Daily Podcast featuring Neil Diamond. The poster includes the podcast logo, colorful stage lighting in the background, and a photo of Diamond onstage wearing a long-sleeved black shirt and black pants while playing a black guitar and singing into a microphone. He has graying hair, facial hair, and a focused expression. Text identifies him as a singer-songwriter with Parkinson’s.

Today on the #Disability Daily Podcast we celebrate Neil Diamond, singer-songwriter with #Parkinsons.

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#NeilDiamond #BOTD #Music #MusicSky #Jewish #SingerSongwriter #SweetCaroline #ParkinsonsDisease

#UCBerkeley #IronLung #CenterForIndependentLiving

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Promotional graphic for a January 23 episode of the Disability Daily Podcast featuring Ed Roberts. The poster includes the podcast logo and a sunrise landscape background, with a black-and-white close-up photo of Roberts smiling, showing his bushy mustache and graying beard. Only his head is visible as he lies inside an iron lung machine from the neck down. Text identifies him as a father of the disability rights and independent living movements.

Happy Ed Roberts Day! Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we commemorate the extraordinary life & work of #EdRoberts, father of the #DisabilityRights & #IndependentLiving movements.

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#polio #Berkeley #history #accessibility #EduSky #DisHist

Promotional graphic for a January 22 episode of the Disability Daily Podcast featuring Blind Willie Johnson. The poster includes the podcast logo, a space-themed background with a planet and audio waveform graphics, and a grainy black-and-white photograph of Johnson seated with a guitar, positioned in front of a grand piano. He wears a dark suit with a light shirt and tie, his eyes closed. Text notes that he was a blind gospel blues musician whose song was included on NASA’s Voyager Golden Record.

Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we remember American #gospel #blues musician #Blind Willie Johnson.

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#music #guitar #a11y #VoyagerGoldenRecord #LowVision #accessibility #NASA #Texas #DarkWasTheNight #MusicSky #BlindWillieJohnson #listen

Promotional graphic for a January 21 episode of the Disability Daily Podcast featuring Gaelynn Lea. The poster includes the podcast logo, a softly lit background with warm bokeh lights and a violin graphic, and a photo of Lea seated in a wheelchair playing the violin, the instrument resting across her left shoulder. Her eyes are closed, conveying focus and concentration. Text identifies her as a folk musician with osteogenesis imperfecta.

Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate Gaelynn Lea, #folk musician & disability #advocate with #OsteogenesisImperfecta.

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#violin #music #wheelchair #TinyDesk #accessibility #Broadway #Macbeth #speaker @gaelynnlea.bsky.social

Promotional graphic for a January 20 episode of the Disability Daily Podcast featuring Nicholas Saunderson. The poster includes a chalkboard-style background with mathematical equations, the podcast logo, and an inset historical engraving showing a half-length portrait of Saunderson holding an armillary sphere and wearing a long curled wig, dark robe, and white necktie. Text identifies him as a blind English mathematician.

Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we recognize #blind English #mathematician Nicholas Saunderson.

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#England #DisabledInSTEM #math #history #DisHist #Cambridge #smallpox #accessibility #EduSky #a11y #statistics #STEM #stats #STEMTeachers

Promotional graphic for a January 19 episode of the Disability Daily Podcast highlighting the founding of Best Buddies in 1989. The poster features a bright, multicolored radial background, the podcast logo, and the Best Buddies logo showing two simplified human figures standing side by side with arms around each other, surrounded by radiating lines.

Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate the founding of #BestBuddies International in 1989

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#BestBuddiesInternational #InclusionMatters #IDDs #inclusion #IntellectualDisabilities #DevelopmentalDisabilities #accessibility #friendship

Promotional graphic for a January 18 episode of the Disability Daily Podcast featuring Hargus “Pig” Robbins. The poster has a wood-grain background with western-themed graphics and the podcast logo, and includes a black-and-white photo of Robbins wearing a short-sleeved white collared shirt and dark sunglasses while playing a piano, his hair slicked back and a watch visible on his left wrist. Text identifies him as a blind country musician.

Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate #blind country musician Hargus “Pig” Robbins!

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#CountryMusic #accessibility #keyboard #piano #LowVision #MusicSky #BlindMusician #music #country #Listen #Nashville #CountryMusicHallOfFame

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Promotional graphic for a January 17 episode of the Disability Daily Podcast featuring Muhammad Ali. The poster includes hanging red boxing gloves, the podcast logo, and a colorful painting of a shirtless Ali wearing red boxing gloves, fists raised, with an intense, focused expression. The background of the painting incorporates an abstract American flag motif. Text identifies Ali as a dyslexic boxer with Parkinson’s disease.

Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate the GOAT himself, #MuhammadAli, who was #dyslexic & had #Parkinson’s disease.

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#Dyslexia #ParkinsonsDisease #Boxing #a11y #history #sports #BlackHistory #CivilRights #Islam #RacialJustice

Promotional graphic for a January 16 episode of the Disability Daily Podcast featuring Anders Gustaf Ekeberg. The poster includes the podcast logo, a background image of the periodic table entry for tantalum, and an inset illustration showing a historical sketch of Ekeberg in profile. Text identifies him as a Deaf Swedish chemist who discovered tantalum.

Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate Anders Gustaf Ekeberg, #deaf #Swedish #chemist who discovered #tantalum.

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#DeafInSTEM #DisabledInSTEM #chemistry #education #accessibility #HearingLoss #deafness #history #EduSky #STEM #a11y

Promotional graphic for a January 15 episode of the Disability Daily Podcast featuring Robert Tarango. The poster includes the podcast logo and a dark gradient background, alongside a movie poster for Feeling Through showing two men sitting on a bench at night. Text identifies Tarango as a DeafBlind actor.

Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate #Deafblind actor Robert Tarango!

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#accessibility #deaf #blind #LowVision #UsherSyndrome #FeelingThrough #deafblindness #deafness #blindness #Representation #RepresentationMatters

Abduljalil Al-Singace, Bahrain | Scholars at Risk Dr. Abdul Jalil Al-Singace is a Bahraini scholar of mechanical engineering sentenced to life in prison and has been denied access to appropriate medical care.

Please take action for Dr. Al-Singace: www.scholarsatrisk.org/actions/abduljalil-al-singace-bahrain/

Promotional graphic for a January 15 episode of the Disability Daily Podcast featuring Dr. Al-Singace. The poster includes the podcast logo and a background of the Bahraini flag, with a photo showing Dr. Al-Singace seated in a wheelchair during a public demonstration, accompanied by several people walking alongside him. Text identifies him as a Bahraini mechanical engineer, polio survivor, and human rights activist.

Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate #Bahraini #polio survivor, mechanical #engineer & human rights activist Dr. Abduljalil Al-Singace!

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#Bahrain #accessibility #poliovirus #HumanRights #activism #Amnesty #HungerStrike #EduSky

Promotional graphic for a January 15 episode of the Disability Daily Podcast highlighting the launch of the Be My Eyes app in 2015. The poster has a bright yellow background with googly eyes, the podcast logo, and a smartphone screen showing the Be My Eyes interface helping identify whether a milk carton has expired.

Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate the anniversary of the launch of the Be My Eyes #app in 2015.

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#BeMyEyes #BeMyEyesApp #Blind #LowVision #Volunteer #volunteering #tech #Acccessibility #AccessibilityForAll #a11y #technology

Photo of Carter by John Mathew Smith & www.celebrity-photos.com

Promotional graphic for a January 14 episode of the Disability Daily Podcast featuring Clarence Carter. The poster includes the podcast logo, a close-up guitar background, and an inset photo of Carter wearing sunglasses and a bright red vest over a gold-sequined jacket, standing at a microphone while holding a tan-colored guitar. Text identifies him as a blind American musician and singer-songwriter.

Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate #blind American #musician & #singer-songwriter Clarence Carter.

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#accessibility #a11y #braille #music #LowVision #history #Alabama #blues #soul #RnB #blindness #MusicBirthdays #guitar #listen

Promotional graphic for a January 13 episode of the Disability Daily Podcast focusing on the German prosthetics company Ottobock. The poster includes the podcast logo, bold date text, and an inset image of a vintage newspaper advertisement for the Ottobock controlled knee joint device, showing a prosthetic leg with a visible slit running from the hip down the thigh to below the knee. Text notes that Ottobock was founded in 1919 to help wounded soldiers.

On this day in 1919, German #prosthetics company #Ottobock was founded to help wounded soldiers.

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#history #accessibility #a11y #prosthesis #WW1 #Germany #deutschland #OnThisDay #TodayInHistory #LimbLoss #DisabilityDaily #January13 #Military

Promotional graphic for a January 12 episode of the Disability Daily Podcast featuring Andy Pleasants. The poster includes the podcast logo, a colorful geometric background, and a portrait photo of Pleasants standing outdoors, wearing glasses and a patterned shirt, with a visible tracheostomy tube at his throat. Text identifies him as a Deaf and craniofacial difference advocate.

Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate #Deaf & craniofacial difference advocate Andy Pleasants!

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#CraniofacialDifference #tracheostomy #accessibility #a11y #AndyPleasants #craniofacial #AndySigns #ASL #PleasantAndy #trach

Dail photo: City of San Diego;
Salk Institute photo: Salk Institute website

Promotional graphic for a January 11 episode of the Disability Daily Podcast featuring Charles Dail. The poster includes the podcast logo, a modern concrete civic plaza background of the Salk Institute, and a black-and-white portrait of Dail in a suit and tie. Text identifies him as a polio survivor and former mayor of San Diego.

Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate Charles Dail, a #polio survivor & #mayor of San Diego.

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#SanDiego #Salk #CA #accessibility #a11y #history #UCSD @salkinstitute.bsky.social #vaccines #vaccine #LaJolla #California #medicine

Promotional graphic for a January 10 episode of the Disability Daily Podcast featuring Gunther von Hagens. The poster includes the podcast logo and a background image of a plastinated human body posed in an anatomical display within a museum setting. Text identifies von Hagens as a hemophiliac, anatomist, and inventor of the plastination process.

Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we discuss #German #anatomist & #hemophiliac Dr. Gunther von Hagens, #plastination, & his Body Worlds exhibits.

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#anatomy #body #BodyWorlds #accessibility #a11y #hemophilia #ParkinsonsDisease #Parkinsons

Photo by Lindsay Steele/The Catholic Messenger

Promotional graphic for a January 9 episode of the Disability Daily Podcast featuring Tony Meléndez. The poster shows a colorful background with illustrated string instruments, the podcast logo, and an inset photo of Meléndez seated on stage singing into a microphone and playing a guitar with his feet. Text identifies him as a guitarist, singer, and songwriter born without arms due to thalidomide.

Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate Tony Meléndez, renowned #musician born without arms due to #thalidomide.

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#guitar #music #singer #songwriter #MedicalHistory #DisabilityHistory #LimbDifference #accessibility #a11y #guitarist

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