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We're not a legal minority, we have no flag (we're typically incapable of marches anyway) and there are no social movements lobbying exclusively for our deferred American Dream.
AP | Posted 10.22.2009 | New York
MINEOLA, N.Y. — A New York judge is considering a request to drop criminal charges against a longtime Long Island Rail Road employee linked to a...
Kathleen Reardon | Posted 09.29.2009 | Living
You don't have to be a lover of history as Kennedy was to learn, as he did, that your own history is worth study. To not know it is to assure repetition of its less admirable parts.
Daniel Denvir | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
In a debate dominated by crazed, gun-toting teabaggers and a series of incoherent Democratic proposals, disability rights activists present an undercovered--angle on health care reform.
Ari Ne'eman | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
Amy, a 22-year-old with a spinal cord injury, is caught in a vicious catch-22. If she goes to work, she will lose the assistance that makes it possible for her to work and live independently in the first place.
Todd Kashdan | Posted 09.18.2009 | Living
If we rely on categories, labels, rules, and what other people say and do, we will miss out on the rich complexity of life. We will make less optimal decisions. We will be less creative and less productive, and feel less autonomous.
Lennard Davis | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics
This rhetorical concern for the disabled is fascinating coming from the right, which has routinely worked against extending accommodations for them under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Lee Woodruff | Posted 09.04.2009 | Living
Near my home there is "Children at Play" sign with the word "Autistic" written in black marker. The added word seemed to say, "These are my children. I'm comfortable with it and you should be too."
Olivia Sterns | Posted 08.28.2009 | Living
As his journey begins so does the world's first-ever clinical trial using stem cells in humans to repair spinal cord damage.
wsj.com | ELLEN E. SCHULTZ | Posted 07.02.2009 | Business
A bipartisan group of legislators is pressing the Treasury Department to close a loophole that has allowed banks to seize Social Security and disabili...
Ari Ne'eman | Posted 06.21.2009 | Living
The disability message is a civil rights message. It is incumbent upon us to make sure that health care reform doesn't leave disabled adults and youth behind.
Bonnie St. John | Posted 03.22.2009 | Living
There were hardly any kids at the Shriners Hospital today... The administrative assistant I contacted had tried to discourage me from coming because t...
Stanton Peele | Posted 03.12.2009 | Living
While doctors, hospital resources, and social services are and will be devoted to the Suleman clan, others will be forced to do without. This is our modern American reality.
Tim Giago | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics
Andy Torress was denied disability pension by the VA, but when he took his medical records to the Social Security Administration, they approved him for 100 percent disability.
Luis Montalvan and Aaron Glantz | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics
Internal audits at the VA regional headquarters has revealed over half of all disability claims processed through the New York office had been illegally tampered with.
Anne Dunev | Posted 02.16.2009 | Living
I suspect that the current popular "scientific" theory that we are merely a genetic roll of our parents' dice, or an amalgam of our brain chemistry, keeps us from truly exploring our human potential.
Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 01.07.2009 | Politics
Shinseki has always put patriotism ahead of politics, and is held in high regard by veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Philip N. Cohen | Posted 10.25.2008 | Living
The evidence on well-being among children with disabilities is distressing. In this country, they are more likely to be poor, and more likely to live in single-parent families.
Harold Pollack | Posted 10.21.2008 | Home
Today's news describes yet another study noting how often illness and medical expenses drive people into financial hardship. Researchers surveyed 128 ...
Harold Pollack | Posted 09.29.2008 | Politics
Governor Palin's party opposes women's access to family planning services that prevent unwanted pregnancies and that give poor women the same reproductive choices she herself enjoys.
Harold Pollack | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics
Conventional wisdom holds that Barack Obama is a charismatic newcomer who holds less appeal to regular people. Tell that to anyone with a serious health problem.
Lauren Cahn | Posted 07.08.2008 | Living
Yesterday, my mom called to tell me about this book she was reading: The Ten-Year Nap, by Meg Wolitzer. Since these days, most of my reading is done ...
Jean Kennedy Smith | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics
Out of sight, out of mind -- there is no better way to characterize the plight of refugees worldwide whose suffering is compounded by physical, sensory, or mental disabilities.
Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 06.25.2008 | Business
The arrival of a newborn is usually joyous. But the mood is often tempered by the reality of time off from work. Paid family leave is the logical solution, but logic does not always prevail in legislative chambers.
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Anthony Collins | Posted 10.28.2009 | Impact