Parents and carers might be worried a child is slow to talk or can’t seem to maintain attention. But getting a proper assessment can take years and connecting to support, even longer.
Five handicapped Jewish prisoners, photographed for propaganda purposes, who arrived in Buchenwald after Kristallnacht.
Holocaust Memorial Museum/Photograph #13132
In 2023, International Holocaust Remembrance Day marks 90 years since the Nazis assumed power. Disabled people were the first Holocaust victims; Nazi programs discriminated against and murdered them.
There’s a small but growing number of books for younger readers that feature main characters with disabilities.
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Disability representation in books is an important part of diversity and inclusion.
People with disabilities have a right to choose where and who they live with. Too many are currently in vulnerable arrangements.
In 2009, 150 of the 180 residents of the care facility in Ellignies-Sainte-Anne were French. At the time, approximately 6,500 French citizens living with disabilities were in Belgian institutions due to the lack of appropriate structures in France. The figure has since grown to 8,500, a jump of more than 30%.
It is estimated that more than 8,000 French citizens with disabilities currently live in Belgium. For many parents, placing their children in foreign institutions is not so much a choice as the only alternative they have.
A study found disability counsellors made substantial contributions to faculty members’ efforts to redesign their courses.
Pairing disability counsellors with post-secondary instructors to help them design classes is one way colleges and universities can improve their efforts to support students with disabilities.
The term ‘neurodiversity’ comes from autistic communities and means that all brains and ‘bodyminds’ work in diverse ways.
Language used to speak about disability changes over time, and preferences shift due to advocacy and allyship, legal proceedings and empirical research.
Disabled young people from a low social class background fare much worse in the labour market.
Even though chronic pain is recognized by scientists as a disease in its own right, it remains largely under-recognized, under-diagnosed and, above all, subject to many prejudices.
Although chronic pain is recognized by scientists as a disease in its own right, it remains largely under-recognized, under-diagnosed and, above all, associated with numerous prejudices.
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Disabled Twitter users will be cut off from opportunities to tell their stories and collaborate internationally.
The planned expansion of Canada’s medical assistance in dying (MAID) law to include people with mental illnesses whose death is not imminent has been delayed, but not cancelled.
Canada’s planned expansion of MAID to mental illness is based on ignorance — if not outright disregard — of fundamental suicide prevention principles.
Making it possible for NDIS participants to choose registered or unregistered providers affords the ‘dignity of risk’.
Latecomers looks at the role of sex and sexuality in the lives of disabled people.
NASA astronaut Winston E. Scott on an EVA in 1996.
The European Space Agency has recruited the world’s first-ever disabled astronaut. But we’re still a long way from space being accessible to all.
Lead artwork for God of War Ragnarök.
SIE Santa Monica Studio
Accessibility can be a major barrier between people with disabilities and their favourite games.
Kids with disabilities need support to gain and maintain friendships. But there are benefits for everyone when social inclusion works.
Our guest on this episode has insights into long COVID both as a researcher and a patient.
Long COVID impacts one in every five people who’ve had the virus. In the U.S., early research shows people of colour are most likely to develop long COVID. It has been called a mass-disabling event.
The cost of assessment prevents some students, who self-identify as having a disability, from pursuing an assessment and diagnosis that would allow them to claim formal accommodations.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nicole Osborne
A survey of disabled students found that some university accommodations they value became more widespread in the pandemic, like flexible course deadlines.
Health and service workers are not asking women about a potential traumatic brain injury, there’s a lack of referral options, and often no diagnosis.
Universities must be the space where meaningful engagement with alternative ways of knowing and generating knowledge can take place.
Through the Scarborough Charter, many Canadian universities committed to fostering alternative ways of knowing. But more must be done to realize that commitment.