Disability goes beyond health care, yet the two are fundamentally interwoven: many people with disability have at least some ...

A woman walking past a man in a wheelchair, who is at the base of a staircase. Source: Viacheslav Yakobchuk / Adobe Stock In 1904, H. G. Wells published a short story titled, “The Country of the Blind ...

Despite significant health disparities experienced by people with disabilities, their needs are poorly addressed and understood in health policy, research, and practice. Estimates of prevalence vary ...

Coauthored by Scott Frankowski, PhD, Nazanin Heydarian, PhD, and Kathleen Bogart, PhD A person in a wheelchair and a standing person hug. Source: Chona Kasinger / Disabled and Here / Creative Commons ...

Researchers found that people who develop sensory disabilities with age tend to have worse mental health, and that different types of sensory disability are associated with different aspects of mental ...

The fight for the civil rights and bodily autonomy of the U.S. disability and LGBTQI+ communities are intertwined—and it is more important than ever for them to remain united as nondiscrimination ...

Notions of womanhood inculcate naturalised ideologies of femininity, sexuality, motherhood and caregiving. The paper asks how disability stigma intersects with womanhood to characterise intimate ...

Mills lives with epilepsy, and her service dog Arrow is trained to assist when she experiences a seizure. But years of experiencing first-hand misperceptions of service animals has led her to conduct ...

Social Security Disability or SSDI, is not easy to obtain. If applied to before age 62, you need to check a lot of boxes. But if you qualify for a “compassionate allowance,” you may obtain payments.

Overactive bladder (OAB) can be a disability if it is a long-term condition that substantially affects a person’s ability to carry out daily tasks or participate in activities, such as working or ...

The Social Security Administration (SSA) has added 13 new medical conditions to its Compassionate Allowances (CAL) list, accelerating access to disability benefits for individuals facing the most ...