The most concrete goal of National Disability Employment Awareness Month each October is to increase employment rates and job opportunities for Americans with disabilities. This of course assumes that ...

Deb Hipp is a freelance health and medical writer and editor who lives in Kansas City, Missouri. She is a former investigative reporter with more than 25 years of experience as a journalist and writer ...

Nine months after its groundbreaking ceremony, a new crisis services and diagnostic center serving adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities has its framework in place and is less than a ...

“If anyone were to borrow a wheelchair for a day, I think they’d be pretty surprised about how little they could do in actual physical lab space,” says Paul Bracher, a chemistry professor at Saint ...

A conversation with LBS’ Luisa Alemany on an overlooked source of competitive advantage. It is now accepted wisdom that increasing the diversity of your workforce in any dimension can improve both ...

The month of July is recognized as Disability Pride Month in the United States. On July 13, the first Disability Pride Parade held in New Mexico was organized in Santa Fe by Disability Pride New ...

This month marks 34 years since the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law, and Disability Pride Month was officially established nearly a decade ago. As one blind author and illustrator ...

Human Rights Watch’s Disability Rights Associate Director Carlos Ríos Espinosa speaks with one of the coalition’s leaders, whom he considers a top authority on Mexico’s legal capacity reform movement, ...

Despite the rise of people diagnosed with autism, explicit training for law enforcement to respond to people with developmental or intellectual disabilities is still rare. Misunderstandings between ...

For years, White House press conferences included sign language interpreters for the deaf. No longer. Interpreters have been noticeably absent from Trump administration press briefings, advocacy ...