April 2024

Brian Richard gives a speech while the 2024 DAPi inductees and guests look on

Five panelists share their stories of Disability

Watch out Benji Ball! It's the viral adaptable game that's all the rage!

The Disability Dish is now on your favorite podcast platforms! Find us at: Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts.

NEW!! Episode 16 - We learned a LOT in episode 16 about athletes, sports, and disability. Lauren and Jodi were joined by nursing student Catherine Faherty who participates on the U.S. National Women's Sled Hockey Team, Cailin Currie (Merrimack College MA in Higher Education student) who is a two-time Paralympian swimmer, and Dr. Jeff Gerson, professor of sports and politics.

Some links to topics discussed are as follows:

Want to be a podcast guest or have a topic idea? Email jodi_rachins@uml.edu

Spring 2024 Tutoring, Writing Center and Advising  To find your faculty or professional advisor, login to your Now Dashboard and select “My Academics.” to find your advisor’s contact information or to schedule an appointment. If you need assistance please reach out to advisement@uml.edu.

Make ADHD your superpower!

Peers over at Brandeis are looking for student volunteers to be participants to test out a new AI achiever program (and $25 reward): 

Sign-Up or contact: iamar@brandeis.edu with questions

This minor offers students a unique opportunity to develop a richer understanding of disability in the context of contemporary American society. The minor is anchored by a foundation of courses in English, Legal Studies, Philosophy, Psychology and Sociology, and has a number of electives from departments across the university. Courses for the minor overlap with your core curriculum and elective requirements. The Disability Studies minor requires 18 credits:

April 26 & 27, 2024 - This 2-day music and arts festival takes place in various event spaces, bars, cafes and galleries throughout downtown Lowell. The festival celebrates the spirit of Jack Kerouac in direct and indirect ways.  It is named after Kerouac's earliest novel which was primarily set in this historic mill city.  The Town and The City Festival is inspired by the creativity and exploration for which the author was so famously known and will present a diverse mix of musical genres and artistic disciplines to inspire discovery and to celebrate a love of life

People across the United States looked to the sky on Monday to witness a total solar eclipse. Others listened to it.

And to Harvard University astronomers working to transform the rare sight into sound, the eclipse should create a symphony.

“We mapped the bright light of the sun to a flute sound,” said Allyson Bieryla, an astronomer at Harvard. “Then it goes to a midrange, which is a clarinet, and then during totality, it kind of goes down to a low clicking sound, and that clicking even slows down during totality.”

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Easterseals Massachusetts, a nonprofit that provides a wide range of disability services and programs, is behind a grassroots campaign to get more disability history into classrooms — something a growing group of advocates and educators are also pushing to happen. Currently, there’s no requirement for disability history to be taught in schools.

 

Whether you have lousy TV speakers, are hard of hearing, are distracted by the kids, or are watching a film with actors who mumble, chances are you are using the captions option while watching TV, even if they're not translating a foreign language.  CBS News Sunday Morning correspondent David Pogue talks with Oscar-winning sound mixer Tom Fleischman, who explains – despite technological advances in audio – why films may be getting harder to hear. Pogue also sits down with Jeff Tashige, whose closed-caption work for Netflix has gone viral.

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A first-of-its-kind animated children’s show featuring a cast of characters who all have some type of disability is coming to television.

The half-hour show “Hop” follows an eclectic group of best friends whose comedic adventures are intended to teach preschoolers to embrace differences in themselves and others.

The streaming service Max will air the show, which comes from the creator of the venerable children’s series “Arthur,” starting this month.

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