Is Stephanie on Jeopardy the first disabled contestant on that show?

[imdjh]

And does anyone know what her disability is?

[rurallib]

1. There was once a blind guy named Eddie who was a five time champ

back when 5 games was all you were allowed to win.
Since he was blind, he couldn't read the answers like everyone else, so he had to react to Alex's reading. That would be really tough.
ETA this was probably @ maybe 10 years ago.

[Aristus]

2. At least they gave him a Braille card beforehand with the titles of the subjects on it.

That may have helped a little. He was a good competitor! B-)

[rurallib]

3. didn't know that. How long ago was he on?

[Aristus]

6. Oh, years ago. 2000 maybe.

n/t

[KamaAina]

4. I would seriously doubt it

in all these years, there would have had to have been someone on the autism/Asperger's spectrum! (Maybe now that I'm back on the Continent, one of these fine days...)

[CatholicEdHead]

5. She looked borderline autistic to me

She did really well today.

[Pool Hall Ace]

7. My oldest brother appeared on Jeopardy some time in the mid-90s

and he's a Republican.

[imdjh]

8. Did they let him play in a chair?

[Pool Hall Ace]

9. No chair.

Maybe he would have won if he had, but who knows?