Content warning: This guide contains ableist and offensive language. Disability has continued to be a longstanding taboo in our culture. While one in six Australians — that’s around 4.4 million of us ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andrew Pulrang writes about disability practices, policy, and culture. Oct 14, 2019, 12:17pm EDT Oct 14, 2019, 07:23pm EDT This ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most people often don’t have reason to learn about special education unless their children are directly affected. Yet even then, there are often too many terms to know and a lot of confusing overlap.

I often begin one of my class lectures by introducing the definition of “disability.” The dictionary defines disability “as a physical, mental, cognitive, or developmental condition that impairs, ...

BISMARCK - North Dakota's workers will soon face sweeping new definitions of disability, aimed at getting the seriously injured back on the job. A new law will require that a worker be ...