Q&A: Marsh Naidoo on Disability Rights for Rural Families

In a Q&A with the Daily Yonder, physical therapist and advocate Marsh Naidoo discusses raising her 14-year-old son Kellen, who was diagnosed with cerebral palsy at 14 months, in Dyersburg, Tennessee. She describes rural barriers including limited broadband for telehealth and a healthcare system that requires hands-on pediatric care she says can't be fully replaced by a screen.

Naidoo points to last year's One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which she says sets in motion over a trillion dollars in Medicaid cuts over ten years, with effects on services still undetermined since funding changes take hold at year's end. She frames healthcare access as inseparable from food security, housing and clean water for families like hers.

The full dispatch is available from the source below.