People with mental, emotional and cognitive disabilities face significant limitations in their daily life. They’re considered disabled under the law. Yet, some people with mental health conditions ...

During the Civil Rights Movement, disabled activists helped shape new legal protections. Decades later, local self-advocates ...

For more than 30 years, a movement has been underway in the United States to create campus programs for students with intellectual disabilities to pursue higher education and reap learning and career ...

Black and underserved communities face disparities in health care access, employment, and insurance coverage. The new Norton West Louisville Hospital aims to bridge the health care accessibility gap ...

GRAND FORKS – The experience of intellectually and physically-disabled people was the focus of a lecture and poster session at UND on Monday. Rehabilitative studies faculty and students coordinated to ...

The story of a Black Panther Party member and founder of the East Oakland Center for Independent Living, who had multiple sclerosis and used a wheelchair. Explore Brad Lomax’s under-reported ...

On Tuesday, Stephanie Orlando officially took over as Western New York Independent Living’s CEO, as long-time CEO Doug Usiak retires. Independent Living Centers are federally mandated to be run by a ...

This year, the United States will celebrate 29 years of civil-rights progress under the Americans With Disabilities Act. And yet the more than 56 million Americans with physical, sensory, mental, ...

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13 June 2023 - A “cascade of crises” is putting global progress towards ensuring the rights of persons with disabilities in danger, UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned on Tuesday in New York.

The history of the disability rights movement in India is a history of modest victories alongside some crucial setbacks. However, in recent years, mainstream historiography has valorised these ...