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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Definitions of disability have evolved over time. Consistent with the biopsychosocial model used by the World Health Organization, we conceptualize disability as an interaction between a person’s ...

Last week, with the backing of big business groups, organized labor, and disability rights groups, the House of Representatives passed an amended version of the ADA [Americans with Disabilities Act] ...

Radical technologies around the world may soon overhaul the field of disability and immobility, which affects in some way more than a billion people around the world. MIT bionics designer Hugh Herr, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andrew Pulrang writes about disability practices, policy, and culture. What is the shape of disability activism? There is a lot of ...

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 Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers, gathered in 2022, the number of Australians living with a disability increased to 5.5 million or 21.4% of the population. This is a striking ...