Many people think the word “disability” means people who require a wheelchair or walker. In reality, however, there is much more to disability than meets the eye. Millions of Americans have a chronic ...
WASHINGTON — Rachna Heizer will never forget the time she was in the kitchen and heard the sound of nursery rhymes coming from the hallway. She assumed her 3-year-old was playing with a push-button ...
Findlay, Resistance Books, £8 FOR many decades, Bob Williams-Findlay has been a leading activist within disabled people’s movements.Last year, Pluto published his book Disability Praxis, a work of ...
While there are countless conditions that can result in disability, understanding just a few key characteristics can tell us a lot about how people might experience disability and how others will ...
Overactive bladder (OAB) can be a disability if it is a long-term condition that substantially affects a person’s ability to carry out daily tasks or participate in activities, such as working or ...
Disability can be difficult to talk about sensitively because of how embedded ableism is in our language, biases and perceptions of disability. Conversations about disability are slowly increasing, ...
Six disabled people of color on a rooftop deck. Source: Disabled and Here / Creative Commons License Co-authored by Kathleen R. Bogart, Ph.D. and Sydney Robertson Imagine that you are interviewing for ...