Disability

An Inconvenient Truth on Memorial Day

Bonnie St. John | Posted 05.26.2012

Bonnie St. John

The inconvenient truth that won't be discussed enough this weekend is that fewer and fewer members of our armed forces are actually dying in today's wars. This Memorial Day, let's consider the courageous, wounded warriors.

Reigniting The Disabilities Rights Movement

Odunola Ojewumi | Posted 05.27.2012

Odunola Ojewumi

The term disability does not mean inability. People living with disabilities are fighting an insurmountable battle to etch a place for themselves, within a society that perceives them as inferior.

Education Department issues guidelines for restraining, isolating disruptive students

The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 05.18.2012

The Center for Public Integrity

By Susan FerrissiWatch NewsIn response to simmering concerns over reported abuses, the U.S. Department of Education issued multiple guidelines Tuesd...

Disability-Related Housing Complaints Soar

AOL Real Estate | Teke Wiggin | Posted 05.10.2012

AOL Real Estate: Eleanor Smith vividly recalls the first time she experienced housing discrimination. Then in her 30s, Smith and a friend had be...

Looking For Suffering In All The Wrong Places

Rachel Adams | Posted 05.10.2012

Rachel Adams

Equating Down syndrome with suffering, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach praises the "doctors who work tirelessly so that this disease can be purged and children came into the world healthy." Down syndrome is not a disease.

Women Behaving Badly

Colin Pattinson | Posted 05.08.2012

Colin Pattinson

There is an abundance of criticism to be found expelled on the Internet but little compassion. These stories should highlight the failings of care for the disabled.

The "R" Word

Jamie Davis Smith | Posted 04.24.2012

Jamie Davis Smith

Until we change this thinking, and our parlance, too many will continue to think of individuals with disabilities not as people who are valuable members of society, but as something less.

Turning Wheelchairs Into Hot-Rods

Lori Sokol | Posted 04.05.2012

Lori Sokol

Loreen Arbus has made it her mission to honor the work of the caregiver, 'the unsung heroines," whose kindness comes in all manners of form to help transform lives, yet who are still so severely unappreciated.

Take a Stand against Bullying Children with Disabilities

John Robinson | Posted 05.27.2012

John Robinson

If you see someone being picked on, tell someone. Stand up for those who need it.

I Thought Vanity Was Superficial -- Until It Helped Me Get Through My Grief

Emily Rapp | Posted 05.22.2012

Emily Rapp

What is authentic beauty? I feel like every woman struggles to define, but the question is even more pressing when you're a woman with a disability. When I was four, my left leg was amputated.

Why Do Some See My Daughter's Life As 'Wrongful'?

Amy Julia Becker | Posted 05.16.2012

Amy Julia Becker

We live in a culture where disability is celebrated as a mark of human diversity (think of Becky on Glee) and even, in some cases, genius (think of Stephen Hawking). We also live in a culture where disability is viewed as an obstacle to be overcome through prenatal testing.

10 Countries With The Most Workplace Diversity

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 03.16.2012

High school history books might call the United States the world's melting pot, but that characterization doesn't quite hold true in today's workplace...

A Clarion Call to Non-Disabled Actors to Refuse to Play Disabled Characters

Lennard Davis | Posted 05.08.2012

Lennard Davis

It is time for actors to take an active role in one of the most reprehensible forms of prejudice in our time -- the discrimination against disabled pe...

What Disabled People Need Is Respect

Christina Patterson | Posted 05.05.2012

Christina Patterson

For David Rathband, it took a few seconds for an unemployed bouncer to puncture his eyeballs, with 200 pellets from two separate gunshots, and it took a few months for his marriage to unravel, and it took a few more months for him to decide that he'd rather be dead.

STUDY: Adults With Disabilities More Likely To Be Abused Than Non-Disabled Adults

Posted 02.29.2012

Adults with disabilities are at a higher risk of getting physically and sexually abused than than non-disabled adults, a new study published by the La...

When Fox News, David Brock, Identity and Adoption Intersect: Where's the Outrage?

Adam Pertman | Posted 04.28.2012

Adam Pertman

The part of David Brock's identity that was denigrated by psychiatrist Keith Ablow on Fox News was the fact that he entered his family through adoption and, alas, there was barely a peep of reaction.

New Child Support System Could Cost Poor Men Their Only Income

AP | DANIEL WAGNER | Posted 04.28.2012

WASHINGTON -- Old child support debts could cost thousands of poor men their only income next year because of a policy aimed at reducing the cost to t...

Medicaid: Help in Hard Times

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 04.25.2012

Marian Wright Edelman

Medicaid is vital -- it provides hundreds of millions of children who are poor or have disabilities with comprehensive health coverage enabling them to become productive, taxpaying members of society.

Isolating a Child With Disabilities Can Do Life-Long Damage

Carla Lohr | Posted 04.23.2012

Carla Lohr

We as a society need to step back and rethink the view we have of disabled children. And the parents who are raising these children have to get serious about bringing these children up with the understanding that they can live their lives to the fullest.

What A Little Girl Named Penny Can Teach Us About Faith And Disability

Danielle Tumminio | Posted 05.10.2012

Danielle Tumminio

As Becker's relationship with her daughter blossoms, she begins to discern that what our society labels dis-abled or broken, God labels as good, whole, and beautiful.

The Dumbing Down of America Continues With Rosie O'Donnell and Chelsea Handler

John Robinson | Posted 04.17.2012

John Robinson

By now, you may know that Rosie O'Donnell just alienated all of the the little people in America. It's moments like this that continue to impress upon me the stupidity of television.

Her Ability to Connect: Lacey Tompkins Inspires

John Robinson | Posted 04.03.2012

John Robinson

Lacey Tompkins came to us from an impromptu meeting with Dave Kerpen at Likeable Media in New York. I read Dave's book this past summer as I was buil...

The Need to Believe in the Ability of Disability

Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D. | Posted 04.02.2012

Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D.

So what tips the scale of achievement one direction or the other for different students? We believe that expectations play a much larger role than most people realize.

'My Friend Has No Boundaries'

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 04.02.2012

Dr. Irene S. Levine

Explicitly let her know when she has overstepped your boundaries.

The Writer Who Can't Be Stopped

Peter Winkler | Posted 03.28.2012

Peter Winkler

One night in 1965, I went to bed, apparently fine. The next morning, when I awoke, I was unable to walk. I was eventually diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. I couldn't write. I finally found a solution -- a red plastic chopstick.