Disability INC.

Dorothy Siegel — an early pioneer for inclusive educational programming for students with disabilities in NYC — tells us the story about how the idea of inclusion for people with disabilities was fought for and won.

Beginning in 1990, Dorothy has innovated and advocated for new special education reform models that led to the launching of NYC’s first Inclusion Program at the Children’s School in Brooklyn, NY. In 2002, Dorothy’s collaboration with Shirley Cohen Of Hunter College and The NYC DOE led to the development of NYC’s well regarded ASD NEST program which now serves 1,100 children with autism spectrum disorder all over NYC.

INCLUDEnyc's Director of Communications and Outreach Gennarose Pope interviews writer, public speaker, and rockstar Emily Ladau about activism, dating, and Sesame Street. Check out Emily's website at http://wordsiwheelby.com.

INCLUDEnyc's Senior Manager of Disability and Education Policy Lori Podvesker chats with Kathleen Downes, graduate student in social work at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, fierce advocate, and writer for her hilarious and fierce blog, The Squeaky Wheelchair, about disability and identity, inclusion, and much more.

INCLUDEnyc's Senior Education Specialist Jean Mizutani talks with disability rights pioneer and Director of Travel Training at the New York City Department of Education Peggy Groce about the history of the disability rights movement, and the role and importance of travel training within that movement.

In INCLUDEnyc's premier podcast — Disability INC. — INCLUDEnyc intern Kathleen Downes interviews Jessica De La Rosa, Ms. Wheelchair New York 2016, about growing up with a physical disability, what it's like to have a parent with a disability, what it's like to attend a mainstream school, and her dog Mayim."