Disability often framed as a ‘problem’ in medical school curriculum for doctors to diagnose, treat Negative ideas about disability have a direct, negative effect on workforce diversity in medicine ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Denise Brodey reports on inclusion, disability and healthcare. Oct 13, 2021, 02:33pm EDT Oct 14, 2021, 12:31am EDT This article is ...

Editor’s Note: While some communities prefer disability-first language (“disabled person”), others prefer person-first language (person with disabilities). Terminology in this article is adapted to ...

It happens constantly: I meet a person for the first time, I’m in my wheelchair, we introduce ourselves, and then the first thing that person wants to talk about is the medical aspects of my ...

We cannot escape disability. If you live long enough, you will experience some kind of disability. It might be a “hidden” disability such as depression, alcohol addiction, or an eating disorder. It ...

Should they brush it off as just annoying, but predictable comments from people who should probably know but usually don’t? Or, is there more to casual ableism than irritation? And how hard should non ...

People with disabilities are not a monolith. While activists have worked for years to draw attention to diversity within the disability community, particularly in the workplace, a new report from ...

Disability access remains a problem in public spaces, and regardless of the strides we made during the pandemic, many of those accommodations were too quick to be eliminated. Having been a critic for ...

According to the preliminary findings of a study on the cost of secondary conditions among women with physical disabilities (n=443), the majority (60 percent) reported problems with circulation. In a ...