This is about Elevatus Training, which is a Sexual Education program for people with Intellectual and Developmental disabilities. This was originally published in 2021The full interview is in video below. If you prefer the podcast version, just click

This is from my ongoing question-and-answer series, "You Ask, I Answer" in which I take questions that you send me and attempt to answer them. Do you have a question? A Reader asks,What is "disability justice"? Isn't it the same thing as "di

Corbett O'Toole was a keynote speaker at the 2025 PacRim International Conference on Disability. It was awesome; you should have been there. I love her so much, and I loved her keynote so much that I wanted to share it here, and got lucky because everyone

This is a personal post about where Moxie is in her educational journey and all the feeings that come along with thisMoxie starts high school in August.Shes had a solid run at her intermediate school. Her sixth-grade elementary teachers really sa

Toolbox Tuesday: a tip on using the iPhone built-in transcription app (speech-to-text)Im profoundly deaf. I also have ADHDthe kind that makes my brain feel like its got tabs open in every room of a house I cant find my way through.This combina

Ableism is not just a word; it's an everyday reality. It's the pervasive discrimination, prejudice, and bias against us disabled individuals. It's the belief - often unspoken - that being non-disabled is better, more normal, or more valuable. Ableism

This is an interview with Lance Kamaka, a Hawaiian deafblind musician. It is a part of the Cool Cats: Voices from the Disability Community series, in which Meriah interviews cool people from the disability community so you can get to know them.Lance

This is a personal post about the current political situation, with the House passing of the One Big Beautiful Bill as well as the events of the past 5 months. If you click the player above, you can listen to me read this. Alternatively, the video of me

This is an article with resources to explain grief and loss to anyone with an intellectual or developmental disability, but focuses on explaining grief to people with Down syndrome. It has been updated from the original, published in June 2020.

the disability pride flag: what it represents, who it's for