Author Archives: suzannerobitaille

Sizing Up Disability In The Media

After disabled model Tanja Kiewitz got the courage to pose with her missing limb to recreate Eva Herzigova’s infamous Wonderbra ad, she thanked her friends and “a couple of glasses of wine,” according to Huffington Post. You might remember Herzigova: A voluptuous brunette wearing nothing but a black brassiere dares readers with the caption: “Look [...]

Wall Street Journal Says Disabled Entrepreneurship Is on Rise

Thanks to the recession and higher unemployment rates, more people with disabilities are trying to go out on their own, and a few good programs are providing them with much-needed support. Today, the Wall Street Journal published the article, For Disabled, a Job Hunt Alternative, leading with the story of New Mexico’s David Shunkey, an [...]

The Dust-up over Braille

by Suzanne Robitaille The Poynter Institute is talking about braille and literacy, a topic jump-started by a recent New York Times Magazine article, “Listening to Braille,” by Rachel Aviv. The author writes that new technology may be undermining braille literacy as people who are blind are now “reading” via e-books, iPods, telephone news services and other text-to-speech [...]