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Integrating a New Disability

Brooke was doing well, living with her multiple personality disorder. It had been a long road, but she was comfortable and able to spend more hours at work than ever before.  Then she had a stroke. Theodore “Teddy” Berman was in middle school when his life-long aversion to cookies and cake became excruciating stomach aches … Continued


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Disability and the Bible

Pushing Limits present a discussion on relationship of the bible and Cristianity.  How does the bibleportray disability.  Are we cursed, evil, or perhaps something special about us attributedour disability.  Scholar Amos Yong and Lillibeth Navarro, director of an independent living centerin Los Angeles give us their views on how disability fits in to the Christian … Continued


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Poison or Fire Protection?

Pushing Limits welcomes opponants of the proposed tree cutting in the East Bay Hills in Northern California, Jean Stewart and Marg Hall.  Their principle concern is the effect of the planned use of herbicides on people with disabilities and able-bodied people alike.


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Sub-Standard Wage in So-Called Sheltered Workshops

Four hundred thousand people with disabilities in the USA work for substandard wages, some of them for as little as 3¢ an hour.   We discuss these “sheltered workshops,” segregated workplaces for workers with various disabilities. In the back rooms of Goodwill people with disabilities sort the hangers, hang the clothes and generally change your bags … Continued


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Musicians with Disabilities – Alex Lubet (2)

Pushing Limits welcomes Alex Lubet for a second time to talk about musicians with disabilities and how these artists shape music as they adapt to their impairments.  Lubet is a professor at the University of Minnesota and is the author of “Music, Disability, and Society.” Lubet will talk about his idea about “adaptive music” and … Continued


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Special Broadcast

The Empowered Fefes (Films)

 Three award-winning films made by young disabled women in Chicago.  FeFe is a word for female, and these women live up their names by telling folks how it is when it comes to being a young African-American woman, with disabilities growing up in the,  Windy City. Funny truthful and poignant, these films ooze with disability … Continued