OneLegUpAlex Features Equal First Aid's Fight For ADA Compliance For All Fifty States, Starting With Texas 7-20-2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here on One Leg Up with Alex Garrett. As we
approach the thirty fifth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
I want to.

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Also preview that I'll be perusing the ABLE newsletter for July.
It is the thirty fifth anniversary of the ADA coming
up this July twenty sixth, twenty twenty five, and I
just got worried that Texas has become the first state
to become ADA compliant with airway clearance devices. Thank you

(00:30):
Tony about an Equal First Aid for telling me about this.
As now in Texas there will be device's placed like
Life BacT placed in every public and private school to
prevent school choking trategedies. Congrats on Texas for being this
first state to have one leg up on this and
being ADA compliant. And she like those who know about

(00:57):
this now to join forces with Equal First Aid. Tell
me make your schools safe and compliant as well. We'll
create a graphic for her and Equal First Aid to
be debuted tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
But I want to break that news to you as well.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
The Texas first ay to become ADA compliant when it
comes to that Airway Clearance devices allowance across schools in Texas,
So another big win there. But I want to say,
Speking of ADA, I'm going to be perusing able News
and finding out some of the best and top leaders

(01:33):
in the disabled community. They're all top leaders, but who
really I've seen Judy Newman, of course, doctor m Viscardi,
I got a high like Chris Rose. I mean, his
rise to become president of the Viscarti Center is really
special as well.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Joe Salonica. I mean, here's a guy who has been
continuing his.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
Work not only as a coach but as a advocate
up in Albany for kids of Viscardis School. We'll talk
maybe with him or about him this week and others
that Able News is highlighting as we go along. Look,
they told me to start tomorrow, as I keep saying,
today's tomorrow in covering those disabilities, especially as we hit

(02:16):
the thirty fifth anniversary of the ADA, which doctor Viscardi
was a big, big part.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Of back in nineteen ninety.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
He's been photodographed with a lot of presidents over his
life and Carter hw Bush are just a.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Couple like coming to mine. Of course.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
Eldor Roosevelt gave him eight thousand dollars eight thousand dollars
to start the Human Resources Center back in nineteen fifty two,
now the Viscardi Center.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
And look how much doctor V went.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
And grew that whole brick building in Alberson.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
I like to say so. EIGHTYA preview coming up, the EIGHTYA.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
Coverage coming up this week on one leg up with
Alex Scaret and a win for Port Washington. As smear
Begeling Cafe has Fernanda, he is deportation order temporarily reprieved.
I mean he can stay and hopefully he comes back

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and helps out smear Begeling Cafe.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
And we can all congratulate him on this win.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
And I know, as I said watching the fireworks on
July second, July fourth, there's so much more work to
do to make it so this country is for the people,
by the people, as the Fountain Fathers wanted now two
hundred and forty nine years ago