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First Posted: 11/18/2012
Misericordia University’s The Voices Project: Disability, a staged reading of memoirs that promotes understanding and examines the stereotypes and prejudice faced by those living with disabilities, will debut at 7 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 19 on WVIA-TV.
The program will be rebroadcast at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 22, at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 25 and at 7 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 10.
A radio version of the production will air at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 18 on WVIA-FM 89.9.
The hour-long program is based on interviews done by students in the Introduction to Psychology class of Associate Professor Alicia Nordstrom, Ph.D. The freshmen interviewed a cross section of community members and their families about living with disabilities such as deafness, blindness, dwarfism, spinal cord injury, stroke, stuttering, spina bifida, cerebral palsy, arthrogryposis, and others.
The students then wrote memoirs in the first person based that captured how having a disability or having a family member with a disability has affected their lives.