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Here's how a Coshocton woman is making a difference for those with disabilities
Working with the developmentally disabled has proven to Lisa Reed that one person can make a difference.
10 Tips for Including People With Disabilities in Your Party
With the holiday season upon us, it's easy to hold a party where all guests -- with and without disabilities -- feel welcomed, respected and have fun. Al...
How not to be a jerk to people with disabilities
A British disability advocacy group put together a clever series of ads to help the non-disabled not make utter buffoons of themselves.
Why Parents with Disabilities Are Losing Custody of their Kids
Laws designed to protect people with disabilities are failing to maintain the rights of disabled parents to take care of their children
10 facts on disability
WHO fact file on disability provides 10 facts and images on the health issues.
How Actors With Disabilities Are Educating Casting Directors
Opportunity, understanding and visibility are at the core of the conversation that is changing the dynamic between casting directors and actors with disabilities.
What lenders shouldn’t ask people with disabilities
Borrowers must provide written proof that they are receiving the disability income and disclose how much they’re receiving. But the lenders shouldn't be asking for much beyond that.
Employers Learn To Embrace Disability Hiring
Efforts to increase work opportunities for people with developmental disabilities are largely centering on changing attitudes among employers.
How Visual Notes Helped a Student With a Learning Disability Thrive
Visual notetaking can be an important tool for students to synthesize information, create connections, and demonstrate their understanding of difficult concepts, writes arts educator Sherrill Knezel.
Why I Can't Get Legally Married Because of My Disability
"Imagine having to choose between your life and marrying your significant other."
Smart Lifestyle Choices Key to Preventing Disability
There may not be guaranteed methods for preventing disability, but there are smart life choices that dramatically reduce the odds of disability.
How 'Finding Dory' could change the conversation around disabilities
Audiences are seeing her short-term memory loss in a different light.
Why You Should Spread the Word to End the Word
It is not acceptable to use disability as derogatory. Join the Spread the Word to End the Word campaign.
Tips for the Newly Disabled
Offers a number of tips and advice to newly disabled persons who suddenly find themselves with a disability.
Why Is Our Existence as Humans Still Being Denied?
Twenty-seven years after the Americans With Disabilities Act, we remain shunned and marginalized. And the G.O.P. is determined to make it worse.
How The Language Of Special Education Is Evolving
The "r" word is gone, but the ways we refer to people with disabilities shape our perceptions and behavior.
Learning to take transit despite a disability
Program offers prospect of independence by teaching students with cognitive disabilities to take the bus or ride a bike.
How Is The World Treating People With Disabilities?
A new report from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health looks at how far countries have come — and have far they still have to go.
Job Interview Tips for People With Disabilities
Finding work can feel stressful for job seekers with disabilities, who often encounter prejudice during their search. Preparation is the key to convincing employers that a disability doesn't affect ...
When we design for disability, we all benefit
"I believe that losing my hearing was one of the greatest gifts I've ever received," says Elise Roy. As a disability rights lawyer and design thinker, she knows that being Deaf gives her a unique way of experiencing and reframing the world -- a perspective that could solve some of our largest problems. As she says: "When we design for disability first, you often stumble upon solutions that are better than those when we design for the norm."
What They Don't Know Will Hurt Them
What does it mean to be relevant? Robin Pegg discusses why going beyond instructional level is so important for students with disabilities.
