It has been a couple decades since an automobile accident on a cold winter's night left me with a quadriplegia diagnosis and a lifetime supply of power wheelchairs. I sustained a spinal cord injury ...

New toolkit helps those with disabilities turn paychecks into financial independence ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

She wanted to stay at her first school because she loved being on the speech and debate team – but the campus wasn’t wheelchair accessible. Her second school forced her to learn in a separate room, ...

George H.W. Bush showed how Republicans can be disabled Americans’ greatest allies. Why isn’t Donald Trump honoring his ...

Kim Brooks and her daughter, Zoe, spent months searching for college options but didn’t receive college counseling from the program that’s supposed to support students with disabilities. Credit: ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A local boxing gym is making a big difference in the lives of kids and adults with disabilities — by boosting confidence and creating a safe space while training. In August 2024, ...

The social model of disability frames disability as something that is created by society, rather than only by medical conditions or physical differences. The model acknowledges that people have ...

Finding a great agent is a challenge for any actor, but it can get even trickier when you have a disability. And while the basic rules of securing representation apply to everyone, there are extra ...

Mari Miranda, a West Kendall parent of two sons with special needs, said she couldn’t have gotten her sons the help they needed without Parent to Parent of Miami. Her 11-year-old son, Alexander Blanco ...