“I don’t have to be cured to be happy. I don’t have to conform to the physical notion of perfection (whatever that is) to be a whole person.” — Disabled commenter at eparent.com. “Many disabled people ...

Having a disability is tiring. Every day you have to plan for things that other people just don’t have to. Yet, most "disability awareness" content, for Disability Pride Month and other occasions, ...

Mattlin is a Los Angeles-based writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, CNN, and elsewhere, and been broadcast on NPR's Morning Edition. He is the ...

On Sept. 16, 2016, Terence Crutcher's car stalled on a busy road on the Northside of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Crutcher, an amateur singer, had just left Tulsa Community College, where he'd found out that his ...

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Though SECURE eliminated the life expectancy payout for inherited retirement benefits for most beneficiaries, it preserved that favorable payout option for five classes of eligible designated ...

Marcus-David Peters had just left his day job teaching high school biology and arrived at his second job at a hotel, where he worked as a part-time security guard, when he apparently experienced a ...

It was just after 10 a.m. on a bustling, bleary-eyed morning at the AltaMed clinic in Pico Rivera, and Dr. Marie Flores was fighting to keep herself composed. The waiting room was full. A line snaked ...

So long to overhyped innovations. Hello to tech that embeds accessibility into everyday devices. By David M. Perry Technology is changing the ways that disabled people interact with the world; perhaps ...

In June 2021, Jim Sheridan, director of the 1990 Academy Award-winning film My Left Foot, said he didn't think he could have made the film today without casting a disabled actor in the lead. "I don't ...