As the international symbol for accessibility, a stick figure using a wheelchair has become nearly synonymous with the way our society conceptualizes disability. However, the disabled identity ...

A woman walking past a man in a wheelchair, who is at the base of a staircase. Source: Viacheslav Yakobchuk / Adobe Stock In 1904, H. G. Wells published a short story titled, “The Country of the Blind ...

My name is Andrew Grossman, and I am Senior Legal Policy Analyst at The Heritage Foundation. The views I express in this testimony are my own, and should not be construed as representing any official ...

April S. Keyes, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a Chemical and Physical Biology concentrator in Winthrop House. Defining disability is tricky. U.S. Census Bureau data from 2021 indicates that around 13 ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control, one in four adults in the United States, 61 million people, live with a disability. Those include people with mobility, cognition, independent living, ...

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a piece of civil rights legislation designed to protect the rights of people with disabilities. It was passed into law in 1991 and guarantees equal rights ...

Joey Pagano, of Manlius, is a freelance journalist. He is a graduate of Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications. July is a symbolic month for the disability community. On July ...

Malcolm Gladwell's popularizing of the idea of "Desirable Difficulty" helps to frame the concept of the modern Disability Economy within the daily business conversation (Photo by J. Kempin/Getty ...

When the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed in 1990, people with disabilities hailed it as a vital weapon in their battle for inclusion and against being shunned by employers. More than three ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Can we be certain that most of these new non-physical disabilities aren’t legitimate? No, ...