suzanne robitaille

Suzanne Robitaille is the founder of abledbody.com, a website that covers disability news and technology innovations for people with disabilities in the workplace and life space. She founded the website in March 2009, when, as a freelance writer, she realized the lack of topical disability news in the mainstream media, specifically around enabling technologies.

Suzanne has personal experience with a disability, as she grew up profoundly deaf. In 2003 Ms. Robitaille received a cochlear implant, which she credits as "the ultimate assistive technology."

Today Suzanne writes extensively on disability issues. She is the author of The Illustrated Guide to Assistive Technology (Demos Publishing, January 2010). She is the former assistive technology columnist for BusinessWeek.com, and has also written for The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Media Post, Disaboom.com, Ability magazine, DiversityInc, PBS MediaShift, and others.

Through her company, abledbody & co., Suzanne provides communications, marketing and public relations to organizations seeking to engage the disability community. Her clients include Think Beyond the Label, ai Squared, Hire disAbility Solutions and The New York Times Company, among others. abledbody is certified as a disability-owned business enterprise by the U.S. Business Leadership Network.

Suzanne currently serves on the advisory board of the National Center on Disability and Journalism as well as The AbleGamers Foundation, and is a member of the Lions Club. She is a trusted voice on disability issues for the media and at events across the U.S. including the U.S. Business Leadership Network, National Council on Disability, Games for Health, Disability Matters, SUNY Assistive Tech Expo, and the New York Public Library.

Suzanne graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and received a master's degree in Journalism from The Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She resides in Riverside, Conn., with her husband, Gregory and their son James.