Pushing Limits – November 23, 2003
Getting around in the community for people with severe physical and learning disabilities. Produced by Disability Radio World Wide with Jean Parker.
2:30 PM Pacific Time: Fridays
A half-hour radio show providing critical coverage of disability issues and bringing insight into the grassroots disability movement to the general public.
Getting around in the community for people with severe physical and learning disabilities. Produced by Disability Radio World Wide with Jean Parker.
The U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed the concept that people with disabilities should live in the least restrictive setting possible, but what does that mean for people in institiutions such as Laguna Honda Hospital in San Francisco? Should people with disabilities continue to live in institutions like Laguna Honda, or should they have the option … Continued
The story of 2 women who are changing what it means to be disabled in India. Produced by Disability Radio World Wide with Jean Parker.
Independent Living Centers; what they are, what they do, how they came about, and where they are going. Guests Jan Garrett, Director of the Center for Independent Living in Berkeley, and Herb Levine, Director of the Independent Living Resource Center in San Francisco.
Erik Weihenmeyer: The First blind person to climb Mt. Everest. Produced by Disability Radio World Wide with Jean Parker.
On this weeks edition we’ll talk about White Cane Week, hear poetry by disabled poets, and present a memorial to a local activist with a disability who was recently killed on a Berkeley street.
The Abilities Foundation in Jamaica. Produced by Disability Radio World Wide with Jean Parker.