We hear excerpts from a panel at Writers Guild of America, West on the portrayals of people with disabilities in television and film. This panel titled, People First: Real Disabilities, Reel Stories, was presented by Hollywood, Health & Society, a program of the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center.

Podcast Contributors

Ann Neville-Jan, Former associate chair of curriculum and faculty and associate professor

David Radcliff, writer and member of WGA Committee for Writers with Disabilities

People First: Real Disabilities, Reel Stories (full panel video at YouTube)

Music Credits

Borealis, by pjmny1

A new beginning, by bensound

Tenderness, by bensound