Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “Some physicians reported that because of these concerns, they attempted to discharge people with disabilities ...

This is an awful story, but I think it is relevant to the underlying cultural struggle about people with disabilities reflected in the brouhaha set off by the Palins’ embrace of their son, Trig. In ...

Negative attitudes toward people with disabilities are a key barrier to meeting hiring goals, according to federal officials. The government faces challenges in hiring and retaining disabled workers ...

Disability scholars have recently highlighted social work professional organizations' lagging pace in adopting disability advocacy within diversity agendas and have questioned the adequacy of ...

Coauthored by Scott Frankowski, PhD, Nazanin Heydarian, PhD, and Kathleen Bogart, PhD A person in a wheelchair and a standing person hug. Source: Chona Kasinger / Disabled and Here / Creative Commons ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Gus Alexiou is a London-based reporter covering disability inclusion. A report published earlier this month by U.K.-based global ...

As a social psychologist at a liberal-arts college, I try to help students recognize, and perhaps overcome, stereotyped expectations about diverse social groups. About 20 years ago, after working on a ...

Trinidad and Tobago supported the inclusion of families in Article 4 and also wanted the committee to consider expanding the definition to include “caregivers,” particularly for “persons suffering ...

Wheelchair ramps and assistive listening devices notwithstanding, Christian churches can be inhospitable to those whose minds or bodies fall outside the narrow spectrum we learn to call normal. We ...

Greg Thorson’s first production as Shasta College’s new theater instructor was “The Miracle Worker” with its feel-good ending. His latest, “A Day in the Death of Joe Egg,” is a lot different. Both ...