ADALive!

About 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.

Publisher

Southeast ADA Center

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

29 Aug 2018

Latest episode

6 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 225 episodes have a transcript.

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   6 Oct 2026

   ADALive! Episode 158: ADA Transition Planning, Accessible Transportation, and Public Right-of-Way

   Atlanta, GA has nearly 1,400 miles of sidewalks, many with barriers to equitable pedestrian access. In this episode of ADA Live, Shauncey Battle, ADA Coordinator for the City of Atlanta Department of Transportation, discusses the city’s recently updated ADA transition plan for the pedestrian public right-of-way. Shauncey explains what a regularly updated transition plan is and why they are important for cities like Atlanta. She describes the different types of barriers that the City of Atlanta found including missing curb ramps and policies and procedures that were barriers to compliance. She also describes how Atlanta is tracking its progress on compliance and how other cities can complete this work in-house on a very small budget. The goal of transportation and the ADA is to ensure that people with disabilities have equitable access to work, school, health care and to participate in the life of their community.

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   2 Sept 2026

   Let's Get To Work: The Power of Work: Danny Gibbs on Mental Health Recovery, Employment, and Peer Support

   The Power of Work: Danny Gibbs on Mental Health Recovery, Employment, and Peer Support “Let’s Get to Work:” A Podcast from the Disability Employment Policy Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (DEP RRTC) – Burton Blatt Institute at Syracuse University. In this episode of Let’s Get to Work!, Dr. Peter Blanck and Jonathan Martinis speak with Danny Gibbs, a Mental Health Specialist with Orange County Behavioral Health in California. Danny is a person with bipolar disorder, who is a insightful employee as a peer support specialist serving as a consultant for the Innovations project. Danny also discusses the role of work for people with psychiatric disabilities. He discusses the barriers that people face when seeking work. This conversation culminated in a discussion why meaningful work is so important to the dignity of every individual, to hope for the future and to overall well-being.

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   2 Sept 2026

   Episode 157: The Adventures of Superfreak: My Childhood on the Hippie Trail with My Disabled Parents

   Episode description, speaker bios, transcripts, and resources for Episode 157: The Adventures of Superfreak: My Childhood on the Hippie Trail with My Disabled Parents www.adalive.org/episodes/episode-157 In this episode of ADALive! we talk with Caleb Dardick, who was raised by parents with disabilities who later became disability-rights advocates in the years before passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. At age five, he crossed continents with his family from Amsterdam to India, along the Hippie Trail, as part of a generation’s sweeping search for freedom. In his book, “The Adventures of Superfreak: My Childhood on the Hippie Trail,” Dardick tells the story of his family “dropping out”, capturing the wild promise of the era and the intimate realities of family life on the road.

Inside a recent episode

Episode 95: Get Out & About! Accessible & Inclusive Outdoor Recreation

Published 7 Jul 2021 · Transcript excerpt

[…] That's kind of how we started, and actually when I got out of my rehab, I was fortunate enough to have vocational rehabilitation help pay my way back to school. So I went back to Florida State University and finished my degree in the College of Business and Marketing. And during those early days, I tried to figure out what I wanted to do and what my future would be. I decided because of my experience that I would try to create an organization that would help people like myself get back to living through outdoor recreation. So I started and formed the Florida Disabled Outdoors Association, our past name, in 1990, a 501C3 non -profit that has evolved and changed over the years to now being called Sportsability Alliance, like you mentioned earlier. […]

Who has been a guest on ADALive!

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Kiran Sahota
• Jeff Moyer
• Southeast ADA Center
• Cory Lee
• Lisa Lewis

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

191,938

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

4 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 64 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

63

Social presence

0

YouTube

82

Engagement

81

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Guest appearances

Does not typically book guests

Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.

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