ADALive!

ADALive!

ADA Live! is a free monthly show broadcast nationally on the Internet. Ask questions and learn about your rights and responsibilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Leaders in the field will share their knowledge, experience and successful strategies that increase the participation of persons with disabilities in communities and businesses. ADA Live! is produced by the Southeast ADA Center, a member of the ADA National Network and a project of the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University.

Episodes

Let's Get To Work: The Business Case for Employing People with Disabilities

March 13, 2026 • 28 mins
More information, bios, and transcript available at: https://bbi-dep-rrtc.org/resources/podcast-series/lgtw-beth-23/ Beth Sirull, President and CEO of the National Organization on Disability (NOD), joins the DEP RRTC’s Let’s Get to Work podcast to discuss the future of disability employment policy and why employing people with disabilities “is good for business.” Beth explains that NOD has long focused on employment as a pathway t...
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ADALive! Episode 151: When Eating Is a Disability Rights Issue

March 4, 2026 • 45 mins
In this episode, we welcome Naureen Hunani, a registered dietitian, educator, and the founder of Registered Dieticians or RDs for Neurodiversity, a group dedicated to changing how healthcare and mental health providers can support neurodivergent people with feeding and eating challenges. Her work focuses on the lived experiences of autistic and neurodivergent people and the intersection of feeding differences, feeding challenges, e...
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Episode 150: A Self-Advocate Asks Questions About Using Supported Decision-Making

February 3, 2026 • 37 mins
Get answers to questions about Supported Decision-Making (SDM) in this conversation between Leo True Frost, a wheelchair user with cerebral palsy who uses a communication device to speak, and Jonathan Martinis, Senior Director for Law and Policy at the Burton Blatt Institute. Martinis explains that SDM involves individuals seeking advice and support to make decisions, similar to how non-disabled individuals do. He highlights the Je...
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Let's Get To Work: Disability and Employment Policy: A Conversation with Lex Frieden

February 2, 2026 • 54 mins
LLex Frieden, a pioneering disability rights activist, shares his journey from the car accident that left him paralyzed to his pivotal role in shaping disability employment policy. He recounts his struggles with accessibility and education, leading to his advocacy for the 1973 Rehabilitation Act and the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). In his interview with Peter Blanck, Chairman of the Burton Blatt Institute at Syracuse...
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Episode 149: Holiday Hospitality for Guests with Disabilities

January 6, 2026 • 52 mins
Nancy Horton, Associate Director of the Mid-Atlantic ADA Center, discusses the top five hospitality holidays for guests with disabilities. She emphasizes the importance of year-round accessibility, employee training, and clear communication about facilities and events. For New Year's Eve, she highlights the need to keep accessible routes clear and provide information about loud activities and long lines. For Valentine's Day, she ad...
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ADALive! Episode 148 : Housing, Disability Rights, and Planning Accessible Communities

December 3, 2025 • 36 mins
Archive, Bios, Description, and Transcripts for Episode 148: Housing, Disability Rights, and Planning Accessible Communities available at https://adalive.org/episodes/episode-148/ Professor Robin Malloy and Dr. Peter Blanck discussed the complexities of housing rights for people with disabilities, emphasizing the intersection of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and zoning laws. Robin highlighted the challenges of obtainin...
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Episode 147: Top Technical Assistance Questions with the Southeast ADA Center

November 4, 2025 • 25 mins
In this episode, we talk about some of the most common questions that the Southeast ADA Center received this year related to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the legal rights of people with disabilities. We have received over 1,600 questions this year. As a team, we focus on each request for information and send specific resources to help with those questions. Our guest is Jenny Sykes, Lead Technical Information Specia...
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Episode 21: Long COVID: An Emerging, Essential Research Area

October 31, 2025 • 38 mins
Vidya Sundar and Debra Brucker, co-principal investigators of the University of New Hampshire’s new Disability and Rehabilitation Research Project (DRRP) on Living and Working with Long COVID and Disabilities, funded by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDLRR), discuss their proposed research activities to be implemented over the next five years. A critical piece of their resea...
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Episode 20: Long COVID and Disability Employment Policy

October 31, 2025 • 54 mins
Sharon Rennert, senior attorney with the ADA Division of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, has played a leading role in the development of their policy interpretations of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act. In this podcast, Sharon explains the protections for people with disabilities in employment and how they apply to people with Long COVID. Rennert describes the importance for employers to u...
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Episode 19: Accommodations in the Era of Long COVID

October 31, 2025 • 38 mins
Professor Yana Rodgers, Rutgers University and Professor Jennifer Cohen, Miami University discuss their collaborative research about Long COVID, disability and accommodation. Their research examines the prevalence of Long COVID across different demographic groups, and the extent with which workers with impairments associated with Long COVID have benefitted from remote work. People with pre-existing disabilities, women, sexual and g...
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Episode 18: Advocating for Long Haulers

October 31, 2025 • 39 mins
Pandemic Patients founder Andrew Wylam discusses the reasons he created the organization, and his vision for future national efforts to address issues facing individuals with disabilities with Long COVID. The organization also manages a COVID 19 Advocacy Center to connect individuals with Long COVID with policy makers in support of legislative proposals that will improve access to health services and expansion of family and medical...
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Episode 17: Disability and Telework: An Encouraging and Concerning Trend

October 31, 2025 • 37 mins
Mason Ameri, associate professor at the Rutgers University Business School, describes how the pandemic has transformed the outlook of disability employment. Tight labor markets have demonstrated an increased willingness by employers to have remote workers, and people with disabilities are helping meet this demand. However, the growth of telework is more likely in white collar jobs, and workers with disabilities are more concentrate...
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Episode 16: Advancing Disability Inclusion in Apprenticeship Programs

October 31, 2025 • 34 mins
Nicholas Wyman, executive director of the Institute for Workforce Skills and Innovation, describes the value that apprenticeships offer in addressing disability employment disparities. In doing so, he describes the obstacles that people with disabilities face in seeking employment, whether outright discriminatory assumptions or longstanding practices that may have good intentions but have adverse consequences for people with disabi...
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Episode 15: Unraveling Disability Employment Statistics: Impact of COVID

October 31, 2025 • 41 mins
Ari Ne’eman, doctoral candidate in health policy at Harvard University, says that the numbers demonstrate the extraordinary impact the COVID-19-induced shift to expanded telework had on the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, but even those don’t tell the complete story regarding what remote work means for disability employment. It is a situation reflective of the gains prospective employees with disabilities exp...
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Episode 14: Envisioning a Future of Disability Inclusion

October 31, 2025 • 50 mins
Lydia Brown, director of public policy at the National Disability Institute, discusses two issues preventing people with disabilities from excelling in the workforce and in general: policies that trap them in poverty and artificial intelligence that discriminates. Antiquated Social Security rules with asset and income limits create a poverty trap that limits a disabled individual from seeking more pay or career advancement. In term...
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Episode 13: Re-Evaluating Support Systems for People with Disabilities

October 31, 2025 • 32 mins
Zach Morris, Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University School of Social Work, calls for a re-evaluation of the systems in place to support people with disabilities. We must recognize that people with disabilities not only earn less than people without disabilities. They also face extra expenditures to cover disability-related out-of-pocket costs.
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Episode 12: Increasing Employment Outcomes

October 31, 2025 • 34 mins
Lisa Mills, Owner, Moving to a Different Drum, Disability Policy and Services Consulting, discusses opportunities to increase employment outcomes by braiding and blending resources across funding sources such as vocational rehabilitation, Medicaid, and Ticket to Work.
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Episode 11: Modernizing the AbilityOne Program

October 31, 2025 • 45 mins
Chai Feldblum, Vice Chair of the AbilityOne Commission and former EEOC Commissioner, discuss the importance of the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 and describe the strategic plan to modernize the AbilityOne program. She also talks about the recent rule that prohibits payment 14(c) subminimum wage on contracts within the AbilityOne Program.
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Episode 10: Disability-Owned Business Enterprises

October 31, 2025 • 37 mins
Jay Burks, Director of Supplier Diversity at the Comcast Corporation, shares about the importance of ensuring that large companies like Comcast buy goods and services from diverse suppliers, including Disability-owned Business Enterprises (DOBEs).
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Episode 9: Four Principles of Disability Inclusion

October 31, 2025 • 44 mins
Jim Sinocchi, Former Head, Disability Inclusion JPMorgan Chase, lays out four principles of disability inclusion in the workplace: attitude, assimilation, accommodations, and accessibility. He notes that these are principles that extend to life itself, where people with disabilities have lives that cost more and are deemed socially inferior.
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