What Happens When Disability Collides With The System

About this episode

Danny Williams shares his journey of living with a traumatic brain injury and the challenges and triumphs of recovery.

Send us Fan Mail A single moment split Danny Williams’ life in two: before the traumatic brain injury and after. What followed wasn’t a neat arc of recovery but years of stubborn iteration—wheelchair to walker to rollator to cane—paired with speech therapy, diet changes, and the hard work of teaching his other hand to write. We sit with Danny as he maps the terrain few see from the outside: how a prognosis can shrink your world, and how agency, second opinions, and daily reps can widen it aga...

People in this episode

Hosts: Kevin Henry, Palmi Henry

Guest: Danny Williams

Topics covered

• disability
• traumatic brain injury
• recovery
• agency
• speech therapy

Keywords

• disability
• traumatic brain injury
• recovery
• speech therapy
• agency

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