As the international symbol for accessibility, a stick figure using a wheelchair has become nearly synonymous with the way our society conceptualizes disability. However, the disabled identity ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andrew Pulrang writes about disability practices, policy, and culture. Oct 14, 2019, 12:17pm EDT Oct 14, 2019, 07:23pm EDT This ...

Last week, with the backing of big business groups, organized labor, and disability rights groups, the House of Representatives passed an amended version of the ADA [Americans with Disabilities Act] ...

April S. Keyes, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a Chemical and Physical Biology concentrator in Winthrop House. Defining disability is tricky. U.S. Census Bureau data from 2021 indicates that around 13 ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control, one in four adults in the United States, 61 million people, live with a disability. Those include people with mobility, cognition, independent living, ...

Malcolm Gladwell's popularizing of the idea of "Desirable Difficulty" helps to frame the concept of the modern Disability Economy within the daily business conversation (Photo by J. Kempin/Getty ...

The recent U.S. Supreme Court decision limiting employee claims of discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act was a relief to many business owners who feared the prospect of attorneys ...