How Doctors View Patients With Disabilities
When patients with disabilities receive substandard care. Also: Kari Lake’s defeat; Mike Pence; Ukraine; South African coal; Apple’s betrayal; when to brush.
How Do You Write Plays for a Divided Country? Listen Carefully.
Will Arbery’s work challenges us to slow down, even when dealing with the pressures of political and social discord.
John McFall Is the World’s First Disabled Astronaut
John McFall, who lost a leg in a motorcycle accident when he was a teenager, was recruited by the European Space Agency and could soon be headed for space.
Rob Burrow to be first non-verbal person to read CBeebies bedtime story
Former rugby league player, who has motor neurone disease, will use eye-controlled computer The former rugby league player Rob Burrow will become the first non-verbal person to read a bedtime…
Labor Department Crackdown On Caregiver Industry Uncovers Widespread Violations
A year ago, federal officials said they were stepping up efforts to ensure that people paid to care for individuals with disabilities were not being taken advantage of. What they…
U.S. Deaths from Firearms Reach Unprecedented Levels
Study analysis shows the sheer magnitude of firearm fatalities in the U.S. over the past 32 years and the growing disparities by race and ethnicity, age, and geographic location
Lois Curtis, Whose Lawsuit Secured Disability Rights, Dies at 55
The Supreme Court decided in Olmstead v. L.C. that warehousing people with disabilities in mental institutions was discriminatory.
Film Can Help Us Look Disability in the Eye
The camera can dissolve barriers of discomfort that often keep us apart.
How Doctors View Patients With Disabilities
When patients with disabilities receive substandard care. Also: Kari Lake’s defeat; Mike Pence; Ukraine; South African coal; Apple’s betrayal; when to brush.
How Do You Write Plays for a Divided Country? Listen Carefully.
Will Arbery’s work challenges us to slow down, even when dealing with the pressures of political and social discord.
John McFall Is the World’s First Disabled Astronaut
John McFall, who lost a leg in a motorcycle accident when he was a teenager, was recruited by the European Space Agency and could soon be headed for space.
47 Years Later, Are We Delivering on the Promise of IDEA?
Forty-seven years ago, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) opened the doors for children with disabilities. At the time IDEA was passed in 1975 (originally named the Educational for
‘Glee’ Actor Says He Wouldn’t Play A Character In A Wheelchair Now
More than a decade after taking on the role of a student in a wheelchair despite not having a disability himself, actor Kevin McHale says he wouldn’t do it again.…
First U.S. Women Compete in Wheelchair Rugby World Championships
Sarah Adam and Liz Dunn made history at the 2022 Wheelchair Rugby World Championships in Denmark in October, becoming the first women to compete for USA Wheelchair Rugby at a
Lois Curtis, Whose Lawsuit Secured Disability Rights, Dies at 55
The Supreme Court decided in Olmstead v. L.C. that warehousing people with disabilities in mental institutions was discriminatory.
Film Can Help Us Look Disability in the Eye
The camera can dissolve barriers of discomfort that often keep us apart.
How Doctors View Patients With Disabilities
When patients with disabilities receive substandard care. Also: Kari Lake’s defeat; Mike Pence; Ukraine; South African coal; Apple’s betrayal; when to brush.
How Do You Write Plays for a Divided Country? Listen Carefully.
Will Arbery’s work challenges us to slow down, even when dealing with the pressures of political and social discord.
John McFall Is the World’s First Disabled Astronaut
John McFall, who lost a leg in a motorcycle accident when he was a teenager, was recruited by the European Space Agency and could soon be headed for space.
‘I haven’t been seen as a sexual option’: SBS series Latecomers to ‘rip apart’ sex and disability on screen
Led by and starring people with cerebral palsy, the new comedy doesn’t shy away from desires – and sex scenes – that other shows gloss over Get our weekend culture…
Labrador Systems deploys its first assistive elder-care robots | TechCrunch
The Retriever Pro is designed to bring a kind of assistive freedom to people living on their own with mobility limitations. It's a clever technology …
Meetup.com Removes Accessibility Overlay In Response to WordPress Community's Concerns
November 28, 2022 Sarah Gooding Meetup.com Removes Accessibility Overlay In Response to WordPress Community’s Concerns Meetup.com has removed its accessibility overlay, a recent addition to the company’s website that raised…
New technology allows people with motor impairments to control devices with their minds
According to researchers at the U of A, over 3.5 million Canadians rely solely on assistive technology. For at least 20,000 of them, …
John McFall Is the World’s First Disabled Astronaut
John McFall, who lost a leg in a motorcycle accident when he was a teenager, was recruited by the European Space Agency and could soon be headed for space.