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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The $30M downtown project also will bring a new Jim Noble restaurant too, along with job training in partnership with ...
Chancellor Gordon Brown and Cherie Booth QC, as a patron of Scope, were among those who celebrated the changes to the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) Chancellor Gordon Brown and Cherie Booth QC, ...
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 ...
Throughout cinematic history, the disabled community has been saddled with lacklustre or outright offensive, inaccurate depictions in movies. Relying on tired old tropes to define poorly developed ...
The growth in prevalence of functional disability among adults is commonly and uncritically attributed to changes in demographic, medical, and socioeconomic factors. Detailed analysis of self-reported ...