Episode 48: Speaking Her Truth

Jessica Frew is a 23-year-old actress, model, and now author of the children’s book “The Nonverbal Princess.” Using her communication device, she is telling the world about the importance of equality for people with disabilities.

Thanks to Chris Ankin for use of his song, “Change.”

The book "A Celebration of Family: Stories of Parents with Disabilities." is available from Amazon here.

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Transcript

Robotic Voice You're listening to Demand and Disrupt, the podcast for information about accessibility, advocacy, and all things disability.

Kimberly Parsley Welcome to Demand and Disrupt, a disability podcast. I'm your host, Kimberly Parsley.

Sam Moore And I'm your co-host, Sam Moore, here in Henderson, while Kimberly is in Bowling Green. How are you, dear? 

Kimberly Parsley I am doing very well, Sam. How are things going in Henderson? 

Sam Moore Oh, we're thawing out slowly, but surely we like pretty much everybody else in the Commonwealth of Kentucky is dealing with some, the aftermath of another snowfall.

Kimberly Parsley It has been a very interesting couple of weeks weather-wise here in Kentucky, hasn't it?

Sam Moore It sure has, because before this snow, which for me was about four inches, and I know for you was about four inches, prior to that, we were dealing with flooding.

Kimberly Parsley We were dealing with flooding, and I think we want to send our thoughts and prayers and heartfelt wishes out to, I think it's 15 people so far in Kentucky have lost their lives from the floods that were just horrific in so many places. So our thoughts are with those family members.

Sam Moore Most of those fatalities, if not all of them, were in the eastern part of the state.

Kimberly Parsley It was, the poor Eastern Kentucky. I mean, they just keep getting battered, don't they? 

Sam Moore They just can't dodge a bullet because I know just a few years ago, 2022, I believe it was, they had the big flooding.

Kimberly Parsley The big flooding, and then I think they got even some with Hurricane Helene, right?

Sam Moore Oh, yeah, because, you know, a lot of the mountainous areas like in western North Carolina and East Tennessee got that. And I think the far eastern part of Kentucky was a part of it as well.

Kimberly Parsley Yeah. And then now hit again. So our thoughts are certainly with those people. 

Sam Moore We hope that Demand and Disrupt brings you good therapy while you're... while you're trying to recover. 

Kimberly Parsley I hope people can listen and I hope things are improving for people in those affected areas. And here I live in, of course, Bowling Green, not, you know, flash flooding can happen anywhere.

Sam Moore Sure.

Kimberly Parsley So that's an i