It is time to move beyond the binary and embrace a more nuanced framework: the disability observability spectrum.

Unnecessary mentions of a person’s disease, disability, or other health condition may introduce bias. In addition, because there is a broad range of disabilities, diseases, and mental illnesses, if it ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

More than sixty-one million Americans have disabilities, and increasing evidence documents that they experience health care disparities. Although many factors likely contribute to these disparities, ...

Language (and the questions it forces people to ask and consider) plays an essential role in inclusion and can increase visibility and empathy for groups that have historically been marginalized or ...

Disability is highly correlated with poverty in developing countries, but NGOs and aid organizations themselves may need to look close to home to help: by hiring more people with disabilities across ...

Annie Baghdayan is Executive Director of the National Center for Disability Education and Training (NCDET), University of Oklahoma, where she leads federally- and state-funded projects. Armenian by ...

When I was a teenager, a professor my parents knew heard that I wanted to major in physics. Because I am blind, he told my parents that wouldn’t be possible: “Physicists,” he informed us, “have to be ...

UNESCO Regional Office for Southern Africa Director, Nisha, implored the United Nations and partners to lead by example in advancing disability inclusive through supporting the joint implementation of ...