People with disabilities share humor, analysis, news, and information about their lives and the disability community.
Produced by Unabridged Press in partnership with Point Park University Center for Media Innovation.
A Valid Podcast
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People with disabilities share humor, analysis, news, and information about their lives and the disability community. Produced by Unabridged Press in partnership with Point Park University Center for Media Innovation.
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5/1/2020
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Recent Episodes
October 29, 2024
"It's Not About Cerebral Palsy, It's About Family."
<p>"It's not about cerebral palsy, it's about family and relationships," actress Ann Talman says about her documentary and one-woman show called Woody's Order! Her late brother Woody had cerebral palsy and the stories center around him. </p> <p>In this podcast, Pittsburgher Mark Steidl interviews Talman. Mark has cerebral palsy, and conducted this interview through his augmentative communication device. This piece was first published in 2017 on SoundCloud as part of All-Abilities Media's <em>Look Who's Here!</em> podcast series founded by Erin Gannon. Mark Steidl received a Press Club of Western Pennsylvania Golden Quill award for excellence for this interview. We now present this episode as a bonus episode of A Valid Podcast.</p>
October 29, 2024
A Wonderful Life: Raising a Child With Down Syndrome
<p>"We've got something special here," Dr. Bob Gannon said when he first saw his newborn daughter, Erin, more than 50 years ago. Erin had Down Syndrome. In this episode Erin asks her parents what it was like to raise her, send her to school, take part in her athletics and move into her own home. </p> <p><br /></p> <p>This is a bonus episode for A Valid Podcast. It was originally published in 2018 on SoundCloud under the show name <em>Look Who's Here!</em> This interview won Erin a Press Club of Western Pennsylvania Golden Quill Award for excellence. </p>
October 29, 2024
She Set Them Free--Closing PA's Institutions
<p>This is a bonus episode to A Valid Podcast--an interview from All-Abilities Media's original show, <em>Look Who's Here!</em> It was first published on SoundCloud in 2017. </p> <p>During her 40-year career, Marsha Blanco played a key role in closing troubled institutions that housed people with disabilities. Her effort resulted in threats against her and her children. But she stayed the course, and helped hundreds of people move into community homes. In December 2017, she retired from ACHIEVA disabilities services agency. <em>Look Who's Here!'s</em> founding host Erin Gannon interviewed Blanco. Gannon is a woman with Down syndrome, whose parents decided to raise her like her siblings, and not in an institution. This Press Club of Western Pennsylvania awarded Gannon a Golden Quill for excellence for this piece. </p>
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