Our most negative societal prejudices can fade, but what sparks that change, and what does it mean when those views haven't budged in years? Tessa Charlesworth, a postdoc in the Department of ...
April is Autism Acceptance Month. It’s a good time to rethink not only how non-autistic or “neurotypical” people can best support autistic people –– but also how non-disabled people in general can do ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Denise Brodey reports on inclusion, disability and healthcare. Oct 13, 2021, 02:33pm EDT Oct 14, 2021, 12:31am EDT This article is ...
People with disabilities are not a monolith. While activists have worked for years to draw attention to diversity within the disability community, particularly in the workplace, a new report from ...
We cannot escape disability. If you live long enough, you will experience some kind of disability. It might be a “hidden” disability such as depression, alcohol addiction, or an eating disorder. It ...
Demonstrators holding a banner during the Non-March For Disabled Women inside Grand Central Station, New York, N.Y., on January 19, 2019. (Barbara Alper / Getty Images) By signing up, you confirm that ...
Disability access remains a problem in public spaces, and regardless of the strides we made during the pandemic, many of those accommodations were too quick to be eliminated. Having been a critic for ...
On a simple math task — indicating which of two amounts is greater — kids with math learning disability get the right answer as often as their good-at-math peers, but behind the scenes, their brains ...
Working in media has always been an uphill battle for disabled writers, but an ever-shrinking industry gives “hard” a whole new meaning. Over the past decade, I thought I had finally figured out how ...