Suzanne Robitaille

Journalist and author Suzanne Robitaille writes extensively on disability issues. She is the former assistive technology columnist for BusinessWeek.com, and has also written for The Wall Street Journal, Media Post, Disaboom.com, Ability Magazine, and more.

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

She holds a MS in Journalism from the Medill School of Northwestern University and a BA in Communications from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She serves on the advisory board of the National Center on Disability and Journalism.