Trump’s actions signal a move toward institutionalizing people with disabilities, advocates warn

For decades, disabled people have fought for their rights to go to school and live alongside peers without disabilities — rights that some fear could be losing ground under the Trump administration.
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What are the social and medical models of disability, and how do they differ?

What do you think of when you think of disability? Someone in a wheelchair? Someone who is blind and has a cane? Whatever they look like, their impairment means life can be harder for them. The fact ...
Bianet

First day of Disability-Focused Journalism Workshop: 'We must question the language we construct'

The first day of the workshop organized by the IPS Communication Foundation/Atölye BİA has been completed. The workshop ...
The Lancet

Satendra Singh: reframing disability through advocacy

Physician and disability activist Satendra Singh, Director-Professor of Physiology at the University College of Medical Sciences and GTB Hospital in Delhi, India, was born in Rewari, a small town in ...

Disability by David Turner review – a revelatory new history

This study of the struggle for rights includes incredible personal stories that we should all be more familiar with ...
Psychology Today

Enabling Definitions of Disability

A woman walking past a man in a wheelchair, who is at the base of a staircase. Source: Viacheslav Yakobchuk / Adobe Stock In 1904, H. G. Wells published a short story titled, “The Country of the Blind ...
STAT

‘Dangerous’ lawsuit could imperil disability rights, advocates say

Rose covers disability and mental health, and she helps write STAT’s daily Morning Rounds newsletter. Confidential tips can be sent to Rose on Signal at rosebroderick.11. In the run-up to President ...