Women with disabilities are much more likely to have very low levels of physical activity than non-disabled women. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, people with ...

There is a long journey of discovery that many women with physical disabilities go through to acknowledge their value and their womanhood. That journey is fraught with assaults from every sector. For ...

The U.S. Social Security Administration has requested that the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine conduct a study to (1) provide an overview of ways to collect information about ...

In the past four decades the prevailing wisdom about the cause of disability has undergone profound change. Previous models of absolute determinism that viewed pathology and disability interchangeably ...

Signed into law in 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act remains a landmark achievement in civil rights and healthcare accessibility.