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Ability Anyware #AccessibleBackToSchool 2019 Podcast Transcript
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Hi and Welcome to Ability Anyware Radio, a disability advocacy podcast based in New York! This is guest DJ Dustin. We hope that you had a great, accessible, and fun summer! We're ready for fall!
If you haven't already checked out the disability advocacy magazine, Ability Anyware Digital Quarterly, created by Lexington School for the Deaf, 4201 Schools alumni yet, Recently released under #AADQFall 2019. It features Accessible back to school products, assistive tech, adaptive Halloween costumes, our list of noteworthy books by authors Haben Girma, Melissa Green, and Alice Wong, disability advocacy events at Abilities Expo, Reel Abilities Film Festival, and more!
Contact us at info@abilityanyware.com for a subscription and to get the electronic magazine delivered to your inbox!
If you didn't know, September is Deaf Awareness Month. We created our limited edition #ASLCyberGreetingCard to commemorate it. Stay tuned to updates about it on and our virtual gift shop on our Twitter page @abilityanyware that's the at symbol and spelled A B I L I T Y A N Y W A R E and our website: www.abilityanyware.com
In addition, October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM). For updates on these both of these important months, stay tuned to our twitter feed at abilityanyware that's the at symbol and spelled A B I L I T Y A N Y W A R E. We'll also post captioned videos for our Deaf viewers with transcripts or audio descriptions for blind readers on our vimeo channel at @abilityvideo.
Looking to make it an epic & accessible Halloween for children who use wheelchairs?! Target is selling adaptive costumes by Hyde & Eek, the spelling is H Y D E & E E K. Also, make sure to stay tuned for our AADQ Winter Holiday 2019 issue!
Here it is, our Accessible Back to School Playlist! Deaf viewers can get a link to song lyrics and music videos in our podcast description. Also, if you would like a cool music visualizer, the Microsoft's Spectrum app is free and can be downloaded from the Microsoft store. Blind viewers can get the link to video descriptions in the podcast description as well.
#AccessibleBackToSchool Playlist
Sesame Street Theme Song
Music video with lyrics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXWiBN6LqKk
Blind listeners, this music video features colorful Sesame Street puppets (including Elmo, The Count,, Grover) singing and playing a rainbow colored Xylophone along with Jimmy Fallon and The Roots
"Conjunction Junction"
Music video with lyrics (click CC button in video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPoBE-E8VOc
Music video starts with animation school house rock etched in yellow stone and a superhero in a red suit, blue cape, and white boots saving the rocks from falling and cuts to of an illuminated jukebox and the words "Conjunction Junction" in a multicolored neon light frame and then cuts to the scene of railroad tracks an train cars connecting on the tracks to symbolize conjunctions as word connectors.