At Banter Podcast

Rob is stoked this week as the gang (Rob, Ryan, Steve, and guest host Lis) welcome Anthony Ferraro, motivational speaker, documentary star, content creator, skateboarder, musician and Paralympian in training – yes he does it all! Show Transcript: https://atbanter.files.wordpress.com/2021/12/at-banter-podcast-episode-266-anthony-ferraro.pdf Show Notes Anthony Ferraro Online https://asfvision.com/ AT Banter is brought to you by Canadian Assistive Technology, providing sales and training in Assistive Technology and Accessibility with over 30 years of knowledge and experience. Visit them online at www.canasstech.com or call toll-free 1-844-795-8324. Need repairs on your device? Chaos Technical Services offers service and support on almost any piece of Assistive Technology, while also providing parts and batteries. Visit them online at www.chaostechnicalservices.com or call 778-847-6840.

This week Rob, Ryan, Steve and Lis welcome Amy Amantea, artist, actor and advocate for a rousing round table discussion about ableism. They talk about its definitions, the concept of micro aggressions and the importance of avoiding ableist language – and much much more. It’s an episode so full of thought provoking conversation and learning that there was no chance of packing into one episode, so stay tuned for additional parts in the weeks ahead! Show Transcript: https://atbanter.files.wordpress.com/2021/12/at-banter-podcast-episode-265-ableism-part-1.pdf Show Notes Meet Amy Amantea https://www.ami.ca/Amy-Amantea-bio ------------------------------------------------ AT Banter is brought to you by Canadian Assistive Technology, providing sales and training in Assistive Technology and Accessibility with over 30 years of knowledge and experience. Visit them online at www.canasstech.com or call toll-free 1-844-795-8324. Need repairs on your device? Chaos Technical Services offers service and support on almost

Rob, Ryan and Steve sit down this week and talk with renowned Disability Rights Lawyer and Author of the book, “Structured Negotiation: A Winning Alternative to Lawsuits” Lainey Feingold. They discuss accessibility lawsuits and the ADA, negotiation techniques, and how sitting down and discussing accessibility with companies can bear more fruit than actual lawsuits. Show Transcript: https://atbanter.files.wordpress.com/2021/11/at-banter-podcast-episode-264-lainey-feingold.pdf Show Notes Lainey Feingold Online https://www.lflegal.com/ Structured Negotiation: A Winning Alternative to Lawsuits https://www.amazon.com/Structured-Negotiation-Winning-Alternative-Lawsuits/dp/0578310457 AT Banter is brought to you by Canadian Assistive Technology, providing sales and training in Assistive Technology and Accessibility with over 30 years of knowledge and experience. Visit them online at www.canasstech.com or call toll-free 1-844-795-8324. Need repairs on your device? Chaos Technical Services offers service and suppo

Rob, Ryan and Steve once again welcome Lis Malone to help co-host as they sit down and talk to Ken Brandt, author of the book “Positive Vision: Enjoying the Adventures and Advantages of Poor Eyesight”. They discuss the origins of the book and the importance of having a positive attitude and sense of adventure. Also, why you always want to cross your legs when parachuting into a forest. Show Transcript: https://atbanter.files.wordpress.com/2021/11/at-banter-podcast-episode-263-ken-brandt.pdf Show Notes Ken Brandt Online https://www.kenbrandt.com/ Positive Vision: Enjoying the Adventures and Advantages of Poor Eyesight https://www.amazon.ca/Positive-Vision-Enjoying-Adventures-Advantages/dp/0648762521/

We are back after a break of a couple weeks (blame Rob) and Ryan, Steve, and Rob welcome back guest co-host Lis Malone for a very special episode of the show. This week the gang talks to Dr. Anna Lembke, professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and author of the book “Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence” about addiction, how many seemingly innocuous things are being “drug-ified”, and why it’s important to find a balance in our everyday lives. Show Transcript: https://atbanter.files.wordpress.com/2021/11/at-banter-podcast-episode-262-dr.-anna-lembke.pdf Show Notes Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence https://www.amazon.ca/Dopamine-Nation-Finding-Balance-Indulgence/dp/152474672X Dr. Anna Lembke Online https://www.annalembke.com/

The pumpkins are all out on the porches and the trees are adorned with toilet paper, which can only mean one thing – it’s time for the AT Banter annual Halloween episode! This year we’ve got a full house, as Rob, Ryan, and Steve welcome special guest Rick Chant from Chaos Technical Services and Lis Malone, from the Breaking Dishes Podcast to help celebrate the season as only these Halloweenies can! Show Notes https://www.halloweencostumes.com/blog/p-1494-adaptive-costumes.aspx AT Banter is brought to you by Canadian Assistive Technology, providing sales and training in Assistive Technology and Accessibility with over 30 years of knowledge and experience. Visit them online at www.canasstech.com or call toll-free 1-844-795-8324. Need repairs on your device? Chaos Technical Services offers service and support on almost any piece of Assistive Technology, while also providing parts and batteries. Visit them online at www.chaostechnicalservices.com or call 778-847-6840.

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. Show Notes Medical Ministry International https://www.mmi.org/ AT Banter is brought to you by Canadian Assistive Technology, providing sales and training in Assistive Technology and Accessibility with over 30 years of knowledge and experience. Visit them online at www.canasstech.com or call toll-free 1-844-795-8324. Need repairs on your device? Chaos Technical Services offers service and support on almost any piece of Assistive Technology, while also providing parts and batteries. Visit them online at www.chaostechnicalservices.com or call 778-847-6840.

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 Notes Community Recreational Initiatives Society http://crisadaptive.ca/ Adaptive Adventures http://adaptiveadventures.ca/ Accessible Wilderness Expeditions https://www.accesswilderness.ca/ AT Banter is brought to you by Canadian Assistive Technology, providing sales and training in Assistive Technology and Accessibility with over 30 years of knowledge and experience. Visit them online at www.canasstech.com or call toll-free 1-844-795-8324. Need repairs on your device? Chaos Technical Services offers service and support on almost any piece of Assistive Technology, while also providing parts and batteries. Visit them online at www.chaostechnicalservices.com or call 778-847-6840.

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 Show Notes Kiesha’s Story: A Path to Wellness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVW1ZcsFCsg Keisha on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/wheelsxo Keisha on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChbEgWyPACFalmuSIwej3xA AT Banter is brought to you by Canadian Assistive Technology, providing sales and training in Assistive Technology and Accessibility with over 30 years of knowledge and experience. Visit them online at www.canasstech.com or call toll-free 1-844-795-8324. Need repairs on your device? Chaos Technical Services offers service and support on almost any piece of Assistive Technology, while also pro

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 Show Notes Self Love Is Blind https://selfloveisblind.com/ AT Banter is brought to you by Canadian Assistive Technology, providing sales and training in Assistive Technology and Accessibility with over 30 years of knowledge and experience. Visit them online at www.canasstech.com or call toll-free 1-844-795-8324. Need repairs on your device? Chaos Technical Services offers service and support on almost any piece of Assistive Technology, while also providing parts and batteries. Visit them online at www.chaostechnicalservices.com or call 778-847-6840.

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 Show Notes Kelly Goto on the web https://www.kellygoto.com/ gotomedia https://www.gotomedia.com/ gotoresearch https://www.gotoresearch.com/ AT Banter is brought to you by Canadian Assistive Technology, providing sales and training in Assistive Technology and Accessibility with over 30 years of knowledge and experience. Visit them online at www.canasstech.com or call toll-free 1-844-795-8324. Need repairs on your device? Chaos Technical Services offers service and support on almost any piece of Assistive Technology, while also providing parts and batteries. Visit them online at www.chaostechnical

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 Notes 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.

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 Show Notes Maccessibility Podcast Online https://maccessibility.net/ AT Banter is brought to you by Canadian Assistive Technology, providing sales and training in Assistive Technology and Accessibility with over 30 years of knowledge and experience. Visit them online at www.canasstech.com or call toll-free 1-844-795-8324. Need repairs on your device? Chaos Technical Services offers service and support on

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 Show Notes 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 AT Banter is brought to you by Canadian Assistive

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 Show Notes 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 AT Banter is brought to you by Canadian Assistive Technology, providing sales and training in Assistive Technology and Accessibility with over 30 years of knowledge and experience. Visit them online at www.canasstech.com or call toll-free 1-844-795-8324. Need repairs on your device? Chaos Technical Services offers service and support on almost any piece of Assistive Tec

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 Show Notes What’s Your Pronoun: Beyond He and She https://www.amazon.ca/Whats-Your-Pronoun-Beyond-She/dp/1631496042   AT Banter is brought to you by Canadian Assistive Technology, providing sales and training in Assistive Technology and Accessibility with over 30 years of knowledge and experience. Visit them online at www.canasstech.com or call toll-free 1-844-795-8324. Need repairs on your device? Chaos Technical Services offers service and suppor

Rob and Ryan are beyond excited and honored to welcome comedian Darryl Lenox to the show to have a very open and frank conversation about his recent vision loss and how he is adapting to it across all aspects of his life, from travel and smartphones to his writing process. Show Transcript: https://atbanter.files.wordpress.com/2021/08/at-banter-podcast-episode-250-darryl-lennox.pdf Show Notes New border rules will prevent air travel for people who are blind or unable to use internet https://vancouversun.com/news/new-border-rules-will-prevent-air-travel-for-people-who-are-blind-or-unable-to-use-internet Darryl Lenox Online http://www.darryllenox.com AT Banter is brought to you by Canadian Assistive Technology, providing sales and training in Assistive Technology and Accessibility with over 30 years of knowledge and experience. Visit them online at www.canasstech.com or call toll-free 1-844-795-8324. Need repairs on your device? Chaos Technical Services offers service and support on almost any piece of Assi

Steve is on vacation, but Rob and Ryan soldier on without him as they welcome Steve Hoffman, CEO of Founders Space and author of the book “The Five Forces That Change Everything” to discuss future technology and what it means to both the mainstream but also assistive technology. If geeking out about Brain Computer Interfaces and Artificial Intelligence is your thing, boy do we have the show for you! Show Transcript: https://atbanter.files.wordpress.com/2021/08/at-banter-podcast-episode-249-steve-hoffman_otter.ai_.pdf Show Notes Founders Space https://www.foundersspace.com The Five Forces That Change Everything https://www.foundersspace.com/five-forces Courtney Cole on Tik Tok @enleyetening AT Banter is brought to you by Canadian Assistive Technology, providing sales and training in Assistive Technology and Accessibility with over 30 years of knowledge and experience. Visit them online at www.canasstech.com or call toll-free 1-844-795-8324. Need repairs on your device? Chaos Technical Services offers ser

This week Steve, Rob, and Ryan welcome Tova Sherman, co-founder and CEO of reachAbility, an organization in Nova Scotia that provides a variety of employments services and programs to people with disabilities. We discuss everything from reachAbility’s origins and mandate to the uniquely holistic organizational philosophy of “no one goes nowhere”, and so much more. It’s a jam-packed episode that you won’t want to miss! Show Transcript: https://atbanter.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/at-banter-podcast-episode-248-tova-sherman.pdf Show Notes reachAbility https://www.reachability.org/ Win, Win, Win!: The 18 Inclusion-isms You Need to Become a Disability Confident Employer https://www.amazon.ca/Win-Inclusion-isms-Disability-Confident-Employer/dp/0981323146 Bluenose Ability Arts & Film Festival https://www.baaff.ca/ AT Banter is brought to you by Canadian Assistive Technology, providing sales and training in Assistive Technology and Accessibility with over 30 years of knowledge and experience. Visit them onl

This week Steve, Rob, and Ryan welcome Robin Christopherson, head of Digital Inclusion at AbilityNet to the podcast where they discuss everything from web overlays (yes, we know … again) and the impact of digital accessibility to his daily podcast, Dot to Dot where he features new skills of the Amazon Echo devices.   Show Transcript: https://atbanter.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/at-banter-podcast-episode-247-robin-christopherson.pdf Show Notes AbilityNet https://abilitynet.org.uk/ Dot to Dot Podcast https://usa2day.podbean.com/ The Echo Show Podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/1m9bYZg9p1WunHV5e6QgcX AT Banter is brought to you by Canadian Assistive Technology, providing sales and training in Assistive Technology and Accessibility with over 30 years of knowledge and experience. Visit them online at www.canasstech.com or call toll-free 1-844-795-8324. Need repairs on your device? Chaos Technical Services offers service and support on almost any piece of Assistive Technology, while also providing parts