In unprecedented fashion, disability-related issues were prominent in this last electoral cycle. During the primaries, Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush and John Kasich promised to address persistent economic ...

Whatever else we may feel about the benefits and drawbacks of social media, it has produced at least one clear positive. Disability Culture is thriving online. Whether you are disabled yourself, have ...

Roughly 26 percent of American adults have a disability, making people with disabilities the largest minority group in the country. Although disability is a common experience that will affect you or ...

Key Point: Social Security offers such programs as Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) or Supplemental Security Income, for which potential beneficiaries must file applications. What happens ...

It's a "journey through life, faith, work, home, disability, and lots of love."That's how Dana Brown-Ritter and her husband, Mike, describe Love Like This Life, a blog that's helped them connect with ...

This is a really interesting piece, and taking a lot of heat from the uber-liberal crowd on the site where I found it. The takeaway: The federal government spends more money each year on cash payments ...

This interview appeared in the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) March Bulletin. Not enough attention is being paid to working with the large number of people in communities who ...

Almost 160 million Americans voted this year, the highest voter turnout rate since 1900. If anything, this election has shown us Americans can be mobilized to vote based on issues that matter to them.

Ways of thinking about disability differ across cultures and can be classified into three general models: the moral model, the medical model, and the social model (Olkin & Pledger, 2003). Under the ...

Over the last several weeks, as part of a research project on braille literacy, I’ve been talking with various people who are visually impaired or completely blind. I’ve learned a great deal about ...