It’s Blindness Awareness Month and Rob, Ryan and Steve talk about its mandate and why Blindness Awareness is important globally before welcoming on Dr. Dave Grimes to talk about his work done with the Children’s Low Vision Project and the work done overseas with Medical Ministry International.
Medical Ministry International
https://www.mmi.org/
Moose, rabbits, bears, oh my! This week Steve, Ryan and Rob are heading into the Great Outdoors to talk with Laura McEwan, Manager of Program Delivery for Accessible Wilderness Expeditions, an organization based in Kelowna, BC that offers all manner of adapted outings and adventures.
Show Transcript: https://atbanter.files.wordpress.com/2021/10/at-banter-podcast-episode-259-cris.pdf
Community Recreational Initiatives Society
http://crisadaptive.ca/
Adaptive Adventures
http://adaptiveadventures.ca/
Accessible Wilderness Expeditions
https://www.accesswilderness.ca/
Rob, Ryan and Steve get a lesson in foreign foot fetishes (inside joke, you’ll have to listen to the episode to get it) and welcome disability advocate, motivational speaker, social media star Kiesha Mastrodimos to the show to discuss the documentary “Kiesha’s Story: A Path to Wellness”.
Show Transcript: https://atbanter.files.wordpress.com/2021/10/at-banter-podcast-episode-258-keisha-mastrodimos.pdf
Kiesha’s Story: A Path to Wellness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVW1ZcsFCsg
Kiesha on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/wheelsxo
Kiesha on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChbEgWyPACFalmuSIwej3xA
Mental health and the notion of self-care and self-love can be something many of us overlook in our busy, everyday lives. This week the boys are excited to welcome Jillian Gillis to the show to talk about her new(ish) podcast called Self Love is Blind, a show that discusses these concepts through the lens of disability.
Show Transcript: https://atbanter.files.wordpress.com/2021/09/at-banter-episode-268-jillian-gillis.pdf
Self Love Is Blind
https://selfloveisblind.com/
It’s another exciting week for the boys at AT Banter as they welcome back long time friend of the show Kelly Goto, founder and principal at gotomedia and gotoresearch to talk about the state of digital accessibility and how corporations are beginning to embrace inclusivity and accessible policies.
Show Transcript: https://atbanter.files.wordpress.com/2021/09/at-banter-podcast-episode-256-kelly-goto-returns.pdf
Kelly Goto on the web
https://www.kellygoto.com/
gotomedia
https://www.gotomedia.com/
gotoresearch
https://www.gotoresearch.com/
Yes that’s right, it’s that time again! After more COVID worries, protests, wildfires, heat waves and hurricanes, it’s high time for another installment of a Good News Show! This week Steve brings us a collection of news stories from around the world that all have one thing in common – all the news is GOOD! If you’re having a bad week and need to restore your faith in humanity, this is the episode for you!
Show Transcript: https://atbanter.files.wordpress.com/2021/09/at-banter-podcast-episode-255-weve-got-some-good-news.pdf
18 Actually Good Things That Happened in 2020
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/good-things-happened-2020_l_5feb660fc5b6ff7479847494
New Cancer Treatments May Be on The Horizon – Thanks to Success in mRNA Vaccine Trial
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/mrna-vaccines-could-offer-personal-treatments-for-some-of-the-words-cancers/
4 Tuna Species Recovered After Decade of Fishing Quotas–With Albacore in Stores Being Truly Sustainable
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/iucn-reports-4-tuna-species-on-path-to-recovery/
11-year-old Girl Drummer, Nandi Bushell, Finally Joins Foo Fighters on Stage
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/nandi-bushell-plays-with-dave-grohl-foo-fighters/
Cure for Osteoarthritis Could Be ‘No Further Than the End of Your Nose’, Researchers Find
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/cure-for-osteoarthritis-basel-university
Pecan-Rich Diet Shown to Reduce Cholesterol in New Study
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/pecan-enriched-diet-shown-to-reduce-cholesterol-georgia/
Youth is Fighting Microplastic Pollution with Magnetic Liquid After Winning Google Science Fair
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/fionn-ferreira-won-google-science-fair-2019-with-microplastic-cleaning-fluid/
Guess who’s back?? Rejoice, ye Barclheads! Steve triumphantly (well, that might be pushing it) to the podcast just in time for the newly reunited trio to welcome Darcy Burnard and Holly Anderson from the Apple-centric accessibility podcast ‘Maccessibility’ to the show. They talk about what the state of accessibility of Apple is currently, whether the playing field has been leveled between all the different OS and device manufacturers, and what kind of innovations might be coming in the future.
Show Transcript: https://atbanter.files.wordpress.com/2021/09/at-banter-podcast-episode-254-maccessibility.pdf
Maccessibility Podcast Online
https://maccessibility.net/
Rob and Ryan take a break from yelling at the clouds this week in order to welcome David Moses, a Post-Doctoral engineer from the University of California San Francisco who also worked on a recent study that involved developing an implant that allowed a test subject to translate brain signals into text, with a vocabulary of 50 words! They talk to him about the study he worked on as well break down what Brain Computer Interfaces are and how they work, and what the future could hold for the field.
Show Transcript: https://atbanter.files.wordpress.com/2021/09/at-banter-podcast-episode-253-brain-computer-interfaces.pdf
Adults with disabilities face barriers accessing food, leading to food insecurity: U of T study
https://www.utoronto.ca/news/adults-disabilities-face-barriers-accessing-food-leading-food-insecurity-u-t-study
Stroke Prevented His Speech, But Brain Implant Brought It Back
https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=261595
Rob and Ryan welcome Disability Awareness Consultant and podcaster Andrew Gurza to the show this week, in an episode so spicy and forward that we had to put a disclaimer at the beginning of the episode! It’s a three-way conversation about everything from sex and disability to the state of disability advocacy in an episode you won’t want to miss!
Show Transcript: https://atbanter.files.wordpress.com/2021/08/at-banter-podcast-episode-252-andrew-gurza.pdf
Andrew Gurza Online
http://www.andrewgurza.com/
Disability After Dark
http://www.andrewgurza.com/podcast
CBC Documentary on Andrew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fMCsyhvnEc
The conversation around pronouns and their importance has been at the heart of conversations about inclusion lately, but for some people it can be hard to understand. This week Rob and Ryan sit down with Dennis Baron, Professor of Linguistics and English at the University of Illinois and author of the book “What’s Your Pronoun: Beyond He and She” to give some context and understanding of the current discourse, as well as a historical perspective.
Show Transcript: https://atbanter.files.wordpress.com/2021/08/at-banter-podcast-episode-251-whats-my-pronoun.pdf
What’s Your Pronoun: Beyond He and She
https://www.amazon.ca/Whats-Your-Pronoun-Beyond-She/dp/1631496042
