Perhaps you recently came across the term “ableism” in a blog, social media post, or elsewhere on the internet. You vaguely recognized the term, but you didn’t quite understand what it meant. Or maybe ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andrew Pulrang writes about disability practices, policy, and culture. Disability activism is empowering. For some disabled people ...

There is a great deal of stigma surrounding people with intellectual disability. This can result in discriminatory actions and attitudes towards people with intellectual disability on both a personal ...

Language-Based Learning Disability (LBLD) refers to a group of disorders that affect an individual’s ability to communicate effectively through language. This disability often hinders skills like ...

JOE SHAPIRO, INVESTIGATIONS, NPR: My name is Joe Shapiro. I'm a correspondent at NPR. I work on the Investigations unit, but I've had a long interest in disability issues. I've been writing about this ...

Maybe it’s the sign of the times, but I’ve been getting a lot of emails recently from senior citizens asking if they can get Social Security disability benefits. The answer depends on a variety of ...

Ableism often arises from assumptions about what disability “looks like.” Seeing someone pushing a wheelchair instead of ...

Some employers, particularly small businesses, told us that they would have liked to do more to hire and retain employees with disability and older employees, but were time-poor and had limited ...

The term ‘disability’ includes a wide range of conditions. Within Irish Equality Legislation, disability is broadly defined to include people with physical, intellectual, sensory, learning and/or ...

Not only is the Census delayed but last month, it was decided to simply drop disability-related questions from the sixth National Family Health Survey (NFHS). This act of invisibilisation of persons ...