Join us as we speak with Avery Vitemb, a Clinical Research Coordinator for the UAB School of Health Professions and Instructor for the Movement-2-Music study. Movement-2-Music is a 12-week rhythmic-based exercise program on health and fitness outcomes in people with neurological disabilities. To help express the health benefits of movement and dance, Avery shared her insight from her personal and professional experience with dance to encourage others to move your own way. 

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In this episode, we talk with Rosemarie Garland-Thomson about the upcoming LOOKING. DIFFERENT. event for NCHPAD and the UAB Center for Engagement in Disability Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (CEDHARS). Rosemarie is the subject of Riva Lehrer's Portrait of Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, the featured painting at the LOOKING. DIFFERENT. event on May 8. 

We talked with Rosemarie about her personal and professional background, her collaboration with Riva and what it meant to her, and her thoughts on the upcoming event.

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In this episode, we're talking about the upcoming LOOKING. DIFFERENT. event for NCHPAD and the UAB Center for Engagement in Disability Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (CEDHARS) with Riva Lehrer. Riva is an artist, writer, and curator who focuses on the socially challenged body. 

The event will feature the artwork Portrait of Rosemarie Garland-Thomson from Lehrer’s exploration of cultural depictions of disability, a discussion between Lehrer and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, and a short reading from Lehrer’s critically acclaimed memoir, Golem Girl.

We talked with Riva about her collaboration with Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, her creative process and what the piece means to her.

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In this episode, we're talking about service dogs with Dr. Meghan Mills, NCHPAD Operations Director. She earned her doctorate at the University of New Hampshire in medical sociology, with expertise in the social model of disability and the unequal social distribution of health outcomes. Dr. Mills is also a person with a disability who relies on her service dog, Arrow, to live independently. Given her professional and lived experience, she is very passionate about education and advocacy aimed at protecting the civil rights of people with disabilities to use a service dog. 

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In this episode, we talk with Bob Lujano, NCHPAD Expert Inclusion Specialist (EIS) and 2004 Paralympian for Team USA's wheelchair rugby team. To celebrate 20 years since his athletic achievement, Bob reflects on training and competing for Team USA, his time in Athens, Greece, the life lessons he's learned and more. 

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