Content warning: This article mentions and discusses offensive words related to people with disabilities.
It’s not “oversensitive,” or too “new” of a concern for organizations and businesses to take a hard look at reforming ableist language. Ableism itself is not a new phenomenon, even if “ableism” is a new word to some of us.
Continue reading It’s Time To Stop Even Casually Misusing Disability Words
By Tamar Lapin
Originally posted on the New York Post.
Amanda Gorman, a 22-year-old Harvard graduate from California, made US history on Wednesday as the youngest person ever chosen to write a poem for a presidential inauguration.
Continue reading Meet Amanda Gorman, who made history as youngest inaugural poet
By Eyewitness News
Actress Goldie Hawn, director Ava DuVernay and NBA star Kevin Love are among public figures joining a California school-based effort to tackle youth depression and suicide rates that have been magnified by the pandemic.
Little is known about the experience and representation of people with disabilities in MBA programs so far, but that’s about to change. Continue reading World’s First Study on Disability Inclusion in MBA Programs Launched
Jeanine Cook, a principal member of technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico in the Scalable Architectures department at the Computer Science Research Institute, has received the 2020 Richard A. Tapia Achievement Award for Scientific Scholarship, Civic Science and Diversifying Computing. Continue reading Jeanine Cook is the 2020 Winner of the Richard A. Tapia Achievement Award
The Consumer Technology Association has awarded American Printing House (APH) with a highly coveted Best of Innovation award in the Accessibility category for its Code Jumper, an inclusive product that allows children who are blind or visually impaired to learn computer coding alongside their sighted peers.
Continue reading Award-Winning Code Jumper Helps Kids Learn Coding
Two best friends given a 2% survival rate at birth beat the odds and graduated from their school in Tyler, Texas, last Thursday.
Continue reading Best Friends Given 2% Survival Rate at Birth Beat the Odds, Graduate Together
By Shelby Bril
I sustained an incomplete spinal cord injury in 2010, resulting in impaired mobility and the need to use a walker. The idea of navigating life in a new body seemed daunting but I knew it wasn’t impossible. Continue reading 30 Years After ADA: Where are We Now?
By Lauren Love
Oluwaferanmi Okanlami, M.D., M.S., distinctly understands both sides of a catastrophic medical event. That’s because he has been both a patient and a doctor in that scenario. Continue reading A Paralyzing Injury Brings New Perspective
Going to college can be a challenge for everyone. It’s especially hard for someone with a physical disability to find a college that checks off not only academics, affordability and location from their list, but accommodations for their disability as well. Continue reading College is Hard, But it’s Doable Too
