White Cane Safety Day brings awareness to the contributions and needs of the blind community. Kellee Sanchez, Jason Martin and Grammy award winning recording artist Dave Crenshaw join us in studio to talk about this event that coming up October 10th at the Alys Stephens Center in Birmingham.

Then on the issue of disability, 33% of Alabama’s population has some sort of disability. This is one of the highest rates in the nation and Alabama spends approximately 39% of its healthcare expenditures on its disability services. Beth Moore, Executive Vice President of Corporate Communications at the Patent advocate foundation explains how people need to go about navigating the Social Security system to obtain disability benefits.