Never Fade Away: Untold Stories of Developmental Disability
An oral history podcast where we explore the untold stories of people with developmental disabilities. Produced by LADD, a leading nonprofit advocacy and services organization for people with disabilities in the Midwest, Never Fade Away preserves personal narratives from Ohioans with developmental disabilities—before and after the ADA.
Each episode features stories from individuals who lived through institutional systems, such as the Columbus State Institute and Orient, alongside younger voices who have only known integrated classrooms and evolving opportunities for independent living. These oral histories reveal resilience, challenge, change, and hope.
Neurospicy host Kate Siahaan-Rigg guides these conversations with empathy and creative insight, bringing these memories into the present. Never Fade Away is a tribute to lives lived, rights hard-won, and futures still unfolding
Never Fade Away: Untold Stories of Developmental Disability
Sis And Her Brothers
In this episode, we meet the remarkable Sis Geier on he eve of her 70th birthday, along with her three brothers, Peter, Rodney, and Jeff. These four siblings are the children of the dynamic community organizer Peggy Geier, who, along with friends and other community leaders, started LADD in 1975 to help people with developmental disabilities live, work, and connect. Fifty years later, LADD continues to break ground for people with disabilities as a powerful force for inclusion and equity in Cincinnati and beyond. They are the force behind new Smart Living smart homes that will change the lives of countless people in the coming years, allowing them, for the first time, to live without round-the-clock in-person care. They are opening the first seniors home for people with developmental disabilities on the LADD campus, and have worked with government, cultural institutions, and academia to improve the lives of people with disabilities. And it all started with Sis and her brothers.
