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Jobs for autistic adults span industries but they all follow this neurodivergent career advice: don’t give up on finding your professional niche.

Mitch Jeserich from a video by Sandy Sanders Once more around the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol Building – this time through the eyes of disability. The uprising threatened particular individuals in a building with a lot of history. Some of those individuals live with disability and some of that history is intertwined with accessibility struggles and successes. Mitch Jeserich worked in and around the Capitol Building for several years as a wheelchair-using reporter. He joins us for a des...

Today we integrate some of the events of our nation into our disability routines.  We’re nine days from an attempted coup at the Capital Building in D.C. as the pandemic rages and vaccine hope arises.  Three callers living with disability contribute to the program. Graphic by Gerd Altmann/Pixabay One of our elder listeners with a severe disability, Mylene, speaks of her problem getting vaccinated.   Ed, another listener, brings his experience in living with depression and working for cand...

  We are honored and thankful to spend part of New Years Day with YOU! Go ahead and make merry, but be ready to take note of upcoming issues and actions. Adrienne, Mark, Eddie and Sheela (maybe Josh and Shelley, too?) will talk, roundtable fashion about the hard times and delicious nuggets from this year…yes, there HAVE been delicious nuggets. Also, excerpts from “ The Advantages of Having a Speech Disability” by Jacob Lesner-Buxton. (Full text below) Listen in for some hope for the comi...

Lydia Nunez Less than 1% of U.S. residents live in nursing homes*, yet between 30-40% percent of all COVID-19 deaths have occurred in these institutions.  One hundred thousand people have died due to the coronavirus in various types of nursing homes. These shocking numbers are raising big questions.  And the biggest question is, will these deaths galvanize big changes in the care of disabled and older people? For decades, our guest, disability activist Lydia Nunez, has sounded the alarm about...