When I was a teenager, a professor my parents knew heard that I wanted to major in physics. Because I am blind, he told my parents that wouldn’t be possible: “Physicists,” he informed us ,,, ...

But two of society's biggest "-isms" still go largely unnoticed and unaddressed: ableism and disablism. What do these terms mean? And how can we all do better to dismantle them? Ableism and ...

I was nine years old when my life changed forever. It was November 29, 1997 and we – my dad, brothers, sister and I – were ...

The problem that should be addressed is not the perceived deficiencies of people with disabilities; it’s ableism. Raffety believes that churches are steeped in societal prejudices against people with ...

Ableism is discrimination and bias against the disabled. After fighting for and winning the battle to have Section 504 regulated in 1977 and the 1990 ADA signed into law, we still experience ableism ...

Ableism is a system of oppression that devalues and discriminates against people with disabilities. Individuals as well as institutions, policies, and communications can be sources of ableism. For ...

Alexandra Dutton went through Ellis Island in 1923 season 2, episode 3, but why did she have to endure abuse instead of just ...

Disabled students have long faced the impact of systemic and structural ableism in education, from early learning through postsecondary education. Yet despite nearly fifty years of civil rights ...

But his warning, meant to highlight the hurdles of inaccessible technology, inadvertently highlighted an even larger and more pervasive barrier: ableism. Ableism is the societal package of ...