The Affordable Care Act mandated data collection standards to identify people with disabilities in federal surveys to better understand and address health disparities within this population. Most ...

I have an older brother, age 42. This is not unusual. Approximately 80 percent of Americans have one or more siblings. My brother also has Down syndrome. This is not unique, either. The Centers for ...

Disability culture is large, diverse, and exciting. It’s also hard to get a handle on. Cheerful, optimistic news stories and Facebook posts about disability life aren’t always helpful to actual ...

The social model of disability frames disability as something that is created by society, rather than only by medical conditions or physical differences. The model acknowledges that people have ...

Approximately 7.5 million American students receive Special Education in public school under 13 categories of disability. A student may have a learning, visual or hearing disability, their speech and ...

While there are countless conditions that can result in disability, understanding just a few key characteristics can tell us a lot about how people might experience disability and how others will ...

This study aimed to examine the longitudinal relationship between disability and depressive symptoms, by comparing four types of disability in community-dwelling individuals with disabilities in South ...