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We wish a happy birthday to Deafblind American psychotherapist Rebecca Alexander and South African HIV/AIDS advocate Nkosi Johnson!

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Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a quick daily podcast, and I’m excited to share this with you!

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Learn more about Rebecca Alexander & Nkosi Johnson:

• Rebecca Alexander (official site)
• Faces Behind the Screen: Rebecca Alexander
• Inside Rebecca Alexander’s campaign for disability rights (video, 8:39)
• Celebrating Nkosi Johnson (Google Doodle)
• Nkosi Johnson, South Africa - KidsRights Foundation

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Today we celebrate blind American inventor Tim Cranmer.

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Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a quick daily podcast, and I’m excited to share this with you!

If you’re committed to learning more about disability and accessibility, please subscribe to the podcast on Podbean, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and share with friends.

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Learn more about Tim Cranmer:

• Reporters Look At Technology for Blind
• Tim Cranmer Dies
• Cranmer Abacus (with videos)
• Cranmer Abacus | National Museum of American History

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Today we celebrate armless American pilot Jessica Cox and British poet with osteogenesis imperfecta Christopher Hewitt.

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Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a quick daily podcast, and I’m excited to share this with you!

If you’re committed to learning more about disability and accessibility, please subscribe to the podcast on Podbean, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and share with friends.

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Learn more about Jessica Cox & Christopher Hewitt:

• Pilot Jessica Cox on Inside Edition
• Jessica Cox (official site)
• Christopher Hewitt -- disabled gay poet
• Christopher Hewitt Papers

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Today we remember Deaf scientific illustrator Regina Olson Hughes and Ken Kesey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

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Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a quick daily podcast, and I’m excited to share this with you!

If you’re committed to learning more about disability and accessibility, please subscribe to the podcast on Podbean, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and share with friends.

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Learn more about Regina Olson Hughes & One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest:

• “Angels Can Do No More”: Regina Hughes’ Contributions as a Botanical Illustrator
• Ken Kesey and the Rush to Deinstitutionalization

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Today we celebrate Russian politician and disability advocate Ilya Zaslavskiy and U.S. Paralympian and amputee Melissa Stockwell.

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Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a quick daily podcast, and I’m excited to share this with you!

If you’re committed to learning more about disability and accessibility, please subscribe to the podcast on Podbean, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and share with friends.

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Learn more about Ilya Zaslavskiy and Melissa Stockwell:

• "There Are No Invalids in the USSR!" A Missing Soviet Chapter in the New Disability History
• United Nations Decade of Disabled Persons, 1986-1989
• Melissa Stockwell describes the Paralympian mindset
• Paralympian Triathlete Melissa Stockwell Is Giving Back to the Next Generation

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Today we remember polio survivor Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) Awareness Day.

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Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a quick daily podcast, and I’m excited to share this with you!

If you’re committed to learning more about disability and accessibility, please subscribe to the podcast on Podbean, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and share with friends.

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Learn more about FDR & CTE:

• FDR and Polio - FDR Presidential Library & Museum
• Polio Paradise? Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Warm Springs, Physical Therapy, and Disability Culture
• History | March of Dimes
• January Cognitive Kit: CTE Awareness Day is Jan. 30

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Today we celebrate the founding of the Seeing Eye in 1929 and the birthday of English composer, Frederick Delius.

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Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a quick daily podcast, and I’m excited to share this with you!

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Learn more about The Seeing Eye and Frederick Delius:

• Our History - The Seeing Eye
• 90 Years Ago, Nashville makes history with "The Seeing Eye"
• Leah Broad · Static Opulence: Delius’s Worldliness
• The Delius Channel - YouTube

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Today we celebrate Indian linguist Dr. Masud Husain Khan and American actor Alan Alda!

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Hello and welcome to the Disability Daily Podcast! I’m your host, Katie, and over the past couple years, I’ve worked on a 365-day calendar that recognizes different folks and key moments in disability history each day of the year. I’m turning this into a quick daily podcast, and I’m excited to share this with you!

If you’re committed to learning more about disability and accessibility, please subscribe to the podcast on Podbean, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and share with friends.

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Learn more about Dr. Masud Husain Khan & Alan Alda:

• Masud Husain Khan
• Prof Masood Hussain Khan turns 90
• Alan Alda Opens Up About Beating Polio As A Child And His Current Battle With Parkinson's
• Alan Alda reveals Parkinson's disease diagnosis

Song: "It's Kinda Beautiful" by Water Mirrors from Epidemic Sound