Disability Garrison
This is a safe place where we talk about issues that people with disabilities face every single day. Our hosts, Holly and Michael, bring in experts, policymakers, or people directly impacted to learn more about the issue from their perspective. Every episode leaves you with ideas and opportunities to flex your advocacy muscles. Because it’s up to all of us to make a difference in our own communities. It’s time for us to come together, step up, and share our voices. http://disabilitygarrison.org
Episodes
Many families enter guardianship arrangements because they don't know of other options. Guardianship can be unnecessarily restrictive. It can also be difficult, expensive, and time consuming to reverse. Join Michael and Holly as they hear from Ashley Mathy, a self-advocate from Wisconsin. Ashley gives her account of her experience being under guardianship. They then talk with Dr. Allison Hall, Senior Research Associate/Project Mana...
Society has taught us, intentionally or not, that we should be “normal.” That our value is dependent on our contributions to the world around us. This perspective often makes the term “disability” alienating and disempowering. Join Holly and Michael as they talk with Andy Imparato, CEO of Disability Rights California. They discuss the importance of having a positive disability identity. Also, Holly speaks about her disability ident...
When Maggie Carmichael started going to preschool, she was excited to play with her new friends. But the school’s playground was not accessible to her. So every day at recess, Maggie would be taken out of her wheelchair and placed in the wood chips to play on her own. She would come home from school covered in splinters. Her mom, Holly, decided to work for change in their small town.
Across the country, Julie Kenerson heard that he...
The creation of this first Center for Independent Living in the early 1970s started a national movement. It was the birth of a new way of seeing disability called the community model. Community model focuses on the individual with a disability as the solution and not the problem. As opposed to medical model, which focuses on the physical or mental problem that needs to be “fixed.” But many people don’t know this philosophy. All too...
Join Michael and Holly as they talk with Andy Imparato, Executive Director of Disability Rights California. Andy discusses healthcare resource rationing in the COVID-19 pandemic. Together, they go over ideas on how to address disparities in their communities.
For the resources and links mentioned in this episode, please visit us at disabilitygarrison.org.
Self-Determination is a model of care that empowers a person to be involved in their own life decisions. But self-determination isn’t accessible to all who need it. Join Michael and Holly as they talk with Judy Mark, President of Disability Voices United (DVU). They cover the basics of self-determination. Judy also discusses what led her to co-found DVU. Finally, they discuss the progress that has been made in California.
The ADA changed the lives of millions of Americans. But, even more than 30 years after being passed, many people do not fully understand or comply with the law. There is work still to be done.
For the resources and links mentioned in this episode, please visit us at disabilitygarrison.org.
When faced with hardships, Tony Coelho found purpose through helping others. Join Michael and Holly in this discussion with Tony about the darkest time of his life. They also talk about how it all led to him authoring the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
For the resources and links mentioned in this episode, please visit us at disabilitygarrison.org.
Being diagnosed with epilepsy changed everything for Tony Coelho. He learned to find his voice, and became a voice for others in the process. Tune in to hear him tell Holly and Michael about the time he went off-script when meeting the Pope.
For the resources and links mentioned in this episode, please visit us at disabilitygarrison.org.
Tony Coelho, father of the ADA, talks about his upbringing and experience with epilepsy. From cattle farms to witch doctors, hear how his childhood adventures helped shape civil rights in the United States.
For the resources and links mentioned in this episode, please visit us at disabilitygarrison.org.
Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act was intended to encourage companies to hire disabled veterans returning from war. But 14(c) has become a way for companies to pay employees with disabilities less than minimum wage. In this episode, Michael and Holly discuss subminimum wage with Serena Lowe and Sunny Cefaratti. Sunny gives her personal account of the eight years she spent in a sheltered workshop making less than minimum...
People should be able to receive care from the ones who know them best - and those caregivers should be paid for the work they do. Join Michael and Holly as they talk with Melissa Schlemmer, blogger for thespecialmom.com and caregiver to her son, Christopher. Together they’ll discuss what being the caregiver for someone with a disability entails. And they will also talk about the many people who provide care for a loved one but are...
Language is important, and how you talk to and about a person with a disability matters. Join Holly and Michael as they talk with Liz Weintraub, Senior Advocacy Specialist with AUCD. Together they’ll discuss hurtful, outdated, and improper language they’ve heard in their everyday lives. And they’ll give words or phrases they’d rather hear instead.
For the resources and links mentioned in this episode, please visit us at disabilit...
What do you do when your child will die without an organ transplant, but the hospital decides they are ineligible due to their disability? Michael and Holly talk with Crystal Gallagher, mother of a child with a disability, about being denied a transplant. They discuss how discrimination in transplants is still legal in many states, and offer solutions to change this practice.
“If I need help going to the bathroom, and I can’t get it, it’s just like there is no bathroom.”
Judy Heumann joins Michael and Holly to discuss personal assistance services. In this episode, you'll get the history of the independent living movement from someone who helped shape it. You'll also learn how in-home care is different from nursing homes and adult foster care. Listen in as Judy offers insight and advice for future genera...
Welcome to the Disability Garrison podcast! Meet our hosts, Holly Carmichael and Michael Murray, and hear a quick overview of how the show works. You’ll also learn why the idea of a garrison is a powerful analogy to the disability rights movement. Finally, Michael and Holly will share their goals for the Disability Garrison and talk about how they’re excited to connect with you–and other powerful advocates–through this podcast.
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