The intersection of identities is both a source of pride and challenges experienced by many Americans today, and for 61 million people, that includes living with a disability. For those living with a ...

Illinois House Bill 4284 would replace terms like 'handicapped' with person-first disability language in state laws.

Frank Buffalo Hyde, an Indigenous artist who’s been featured at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian and ...

From an amateur sleuth with a limb difference, to a nonverbal boy with a superhero alter ego, the characters in these books ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Changes that Disney made to a popular program that lets qualifying disabled people skip long lines at its California and Florida theme parks are too restrictive, disabled fans ...

For half a century, the U.S. has been achieving one of the most important civil rights victories most Americans have never heard of: closing the large institutions that once warehoused people with ...

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First Lady Oluremi Tinubu, on Wednesday marked the 2025 World Disability Day with a massive economic empowerment programme, disbursing ₦200,000 each to 9,500 Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) ...

Autism and mental health are complex subjects. Here are some guidelines we use when choosing how to write about them. Person first? Identity first? It depends. When we’re writing about a person’s ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Autism and mental health are complex subjects. Here are some guidelines we use when choosing how to write about ...

When Nick Watkins was a child, he pasted articles about space exploration into scrapbooks and drew annotated diagrams of rockets. He knew this because, years later, he still had the scrapbooks, and ...