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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.

See the Disability Daily Calendar (work on it is always ongoing!)

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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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Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound

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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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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.

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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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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.

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Happy Birthday blind American urologist Dr. John Bongiovanni, Deaf American biologist Dr. Alicia Wooten, Salimat Kekalova and Azerbaijani brand Kekalove Adaptive & Australian polio expert Dame Jean Macnamara.

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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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Today we celebrate Deaf lawyer Claudia Gordon and disability activist with cerebral palsy, Imani Barbarin! 

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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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Today we celebrate Deaf actor Marlee Matlin’s Oscar win, disabled artists Vincent van Gogh & Francisco Goya, and mental health advocate Clifford Beers.

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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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Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound

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Today we celebrate White House Certified Deaf Interpreter Elsie Stecker; Little People of America president Lee Kitchens, & champion of folks with intellectual disabilities, Niels Bank-Mikkelsen!

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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:

Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound