As thousands gather in the nation’s capital this week to honor the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, disability rights issues will be on the agenda. President Barack Obama is scheduled to ...
John McFall is set to become the first astronaut with a disability to head to the International Space Station after completing more than a year of intensive training. The Paralympic medalist and ...
pt. I. Essays -- 1. Multilingual, multicultural, multitalented : the history of a diverse people / Roberta Thoryk, Angela Battistone-Potosky, Fred Palchik -- 2. Reaching across the divide : visual ...
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law on July 26, 1990. Every July we recognize Disability Pride Month to commemorate the passage of this landmark civil rights law. This ...
Characters with disabilities are increasingly playing leading roles in the nation’s most popular family films, according to a new analysis. There was a lead character with a disability in 8 percent of ...
2010-07-26T15:28:18-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/b77/294746-m.jpgTo mark the 20th anniversary of the passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act, Senator ...
Judy Heumann remembers the day she went to register for kindergarten in 1952. She’d gotten dressed up and her mother had pulled her wheelchair up a flight of stairs before the principal intervened.
The post-pandemic economic recovery of people with disabilities remained strong in April and continued at historic highs, according to today's National Trends in Disability Employment – Monthly Update ...
In last week’s Sunday LNP | LancasterOnline, Sarah Nicell, a recent Franklin & Marshall College graduate and intern with the Pennsylvania Legislative Correspondents’ Association, reported on the ...