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  • Call for Workplace Challenges

    Your Voice, Your Workplace, Your Solutions! Starkloff Disability Institute and MO Better Foundation are cohosting a competition to tackle real workplace barriers faced by people with disabilities: The Universal Design Workplace Challenge. Professionals with disabilities submit their own workplace challenge—the barrier impacting them at work. If selected, [...]

  • BeepBall: The Sound of Summer

    Competitive, Intense, and Coming to St. Louis in 2025 If you think baseball is exciting, just wait until you see a beep baseball game. This high-speed, high-stakes sport is played by athletes who are blind or visually impaired—and it’s one of the most intense and competitive games [...]

  • Dive into the History of Disability Pride!

    Join SDI at the Missouri History Museum to celebrate Disability Pride Month on Tuesday, July 22, 2025! 10:00 am — Community resource tables 11:00 am — Presentation begins 12:10 pm — Lunch provided by the Missouri History Museum To celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Americans with [...]

  • Olmstead Decision

    On June 22, 1999, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Olmstead v. L.C. that segregation of people with disabilities in institutions and nursing homes is discrimination and violates the law. This short explainer video from Disability Rights Washington maps how disabled activists [...]

  • Disability Pride Night with the St. Louis Cardinals

    Join SDI and the Cardinals to celebrate Disability Pride Month at Disability Pride Night on Thursday, July 10th! With the purchase of a special Theme Ticket, fans will take home an exclusive Cardinals cap featuring the disability pride flag and the braille lettering of Cardinals. Game Info [...]

  • Titans Take the Cane

    by: Lori Becker Last week, I was honored to be named a Titan 100 St. Louis—an award recognizing business executives who demonstrate exceptional leadership, vision, passion, and influence. It’s a tremendous honor, and I’m especially grateful to Jeff Zornes, of The Bank of [...]

  • Dream Big Career Camp Now Free for Families

    Press Release: St. Louis Camp Removes Cost Barrier, Empowering Youth with Disabilities to Dream Big St. Louis, MO – May 7, 2025 – What does it look like when young people with disabilities are invited to think big about their futures? At Dream Big Career Exploration Camp, [...]

  • Past, Present, and Future of SDI

    by: Steven Foelsch, M. Ed. Reintroducing Myself and the Mission of Starkloff Disability Institute It’s been a long, cold, lonely winter—but now the weather is warmer, the trees are green, and flowers are blooming. Rejuvenation and renewal are in the air! In [...]

  • Wait-for-Me Power Isn’t What I Needed

    by Rachel Goldmeier "It's Wait-for-Me Power!" The first time I shouted those words, I was sprinting past my family on a sidewalk. We were on vacation, walking to our next activity, and I’d fallen far behind. That happened a lot when I was [...]

  • Open House

    Thank you to everyone who came to say hello during our Spring Open House! Innovation and inclusion are in full bloom here at Starkloff Disability Institute and it was so wonderful to catch up with friends old and new. Being together with our community recharges all [...]