Pushing Limits
2:30 PM Pacific Time: Fridays
A half-hour radio show providing critical coverage of disability issues and bringing insight into the grassroots disability movement to the general public.
Pushing Limits – Interview with Robert DeVee
…taking a trip with Shelley Berman and Eddie Ytuarte out to the Coast, to Bodega Bay, to visitRobert DeVee a painter who lives with Parkinson’s disease. www.renbrown.com Shelley also produced an audio essay for you about her grandfather and Parkinson’s. There is a Parkinson Disease support group near you.Call The National Parkinson Foundation at www.parkinson.org For … Continued
Pushing Limits – “Disability According to DREDF.”
“Disability According to DREDF.” Founded in 1979, as large numbers of people with disabilitiesdemanded mainstream access and independence rather than institutions and family ghettos. The Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund has become a major player in the modern disability rights movement. Through carefully chosen legal actions, strategic work on policy issues and ongoing education, … Continued
Pushing Limits – None Of Us Is The Same As Before
“None of us is the same as before,” they say, yet… And therein lies the story. Charles A.Spears, Roger Uratani, Frank Ting, Jean Mizuiri, Paolo Crescini, Linda Golfos, and Phyllis Deetsrecount brain bleeds, surgeries and on-going recuperation. All are members of a support group for survivors of aneurysm and arteriovenous malformations (AVM), facilitated by Nancy … Continued
Pushing Limits – What happens when a blind person has a stroke – December 19, 2008 at 2:30pm
What happens when a person suffers a stroke, What happens when a blind person suffers a stroke and what happens when she needs immediate treatment and follow up rehabilitation. Pushing Limits members Leah Gardner and Eddie Ytuarte talk with fellow programmer Jan Santos about having a stroke on November 11 of this year. They will … Continued
Pushing Limits: Old Age Belongs to the Strong. – November 21, 2008
People in their ninth and tenth decade of life talk frankly about disability, their life experiences, riding the bus and more. A slightly younger woman describes the complex interdependency of the low income senior complex where she lives. Gene Sharee (age 94) interviews Erling Horn (age 103), Geri Efros (age 90), and Erling’s daughter, Maggie … Continued