Disabled People

Obama Avoiding Controversy Over Pool Access For Disabled

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.25.2012

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is sidestepping an election-year confrontation with the hotel industry and other pool owners to give them more ...

Geri-ism #2: Unmasking the Real Disabilities

Geri Jewell | Posted 01.08.2012

Geri Jewell

Let's unmask the real disabilities that threaten all of us. They are not cerebral palsy, or being wheelchair-bound, or having AIDS; they are hatred, prejudice, abuse, deception, false pride, hypocrisy, greed and despair.

Cathy Conheim: A Woman Who Knows How to Make Things Happen!

BJ Gallagher | Posted 10.11.2011

BJ Gallagher

"Wishing, waiting, and hoping -- that's the language of victims," Cathy asserts. "Those are all passive words. They're not active. If you want things to happen in your life, you have to get moving."

Would Your Relationship Survive A Disability?

Richard C. Senelick, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Richard C. Senelick, M.D.

What makes for a good relationship and can we predict who will weather the storm of a disability and stay together?

Employing The Disabled: Focus On What They Can Do, Not What They Can't

Jim Gibbons | Posted 11.17.2011

Jim Gibbons

As an employer of people with disabilities, I encourage and urge business owners, government leaders and people in the community to focus on job candidates' abilities, not their disabilities.