Featured Blogs

Abledbody.com

NCDJ board member Suzanne Robitaille, former assistive technology columnist for BusinessWeek.com, is the founder and editor-in-chief of this consumer website that covers disability news and assistive technology. Guest bloggers focus on assistive and emerging technologies for people with disabilities.

Kathiecomments

Katherine Schneider is a retired clinical psychologist at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire who supports two annual national contests that promote quality writing about the disabled: the Schneider Family Book Award, administered by the American Library Association that honors a children’s book that captures the disability experience for children and adolescents, and the Katherine Schneider Journalism Award for Excellence in Reporting on Disability, administered by the National Center on Disability and Journalism. She writes about aging, disability and assisted services, including seeing eye dogs.

McGuire on Media

NCDJ board member Tim McGuire is the Frank Russell Chair for the business of journalism at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He blogs about the profound changes taking place in news media and journalism education and occasionally writes about disability from a personal perspective.

Media dis&dat

NCDJ board member Beth Haller is a journalism professor at Towson University in Maryland who has done extensive research into disability and mass media. Her site aggregates news and information about people with disabilities and disability issues.

Raising Sophie

Amy Silverman is the managing editor at Phoenix New Times, an alternative newspaper that is part of Village Voice Media. She blogs about her daughter Sophie, who has Down syndrome. Her personal commentaries are frequently featured on Phoenix’s KJZZ Radio, 91.5 FM, and other National Public Radio stations.