This month marks 34 years since the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law, and Disability Pride Month was officially established nearly a decade ago. As one blind author and illustrator ...

July is Disability Pride Month, an event dedicated to celebrating the unique strengths and contributions people with disabilities have made to society. In the U.S., the celebration coincides with the ...

One in four adults in the U.S. has a disability, including 10% percent of people who live with an "invisible" disability. And yet, the Americans with Disabilities Act, a long overdue law that protects ...

Starting next year, people who became disabled by age 46 will be eligible to open ABLE accounts. The accounts have been slow ...

When Jamie Duplechine, 44, goes to a restaurant, she’s not always given a menu. At 15, Duplechine suffered a spinal cord injury. Now she uses a wheelchair and has a caretaker who accompanies her. “I ...

A clipping from the Chicago Sun Times on Wednesday, September 17, 2003 shows one of the many actions taken by disabled people across the US to advocate for independent living in the decades since the ...

So often we see people with disabilities as people who are suffering, and that’s if we even see them at all. Disabled people are rarely given center stage and rarely made the subject of any story.

Over two dozen disability rights activists were arrested on Capitol Hill last week when they protested the Trump-backed Republican budget bill and its cuts to Medicaid, affordable housing and more.