“I don’t have to be cured to be happy. I don’t have to conform to the physical notion of perfection (whatever that is) to be a whole person.” — Disabled commenter at eparent.com. “Many disabled people ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andrew Pulrang writes about disability practices, policy, and culture. The CDC estimates that 61 million American adults have some ...

May 20 marks Global Accessibility Awareness Day, a celebratory event where businesses and individuals raise awareness and praise the ever-growing acceptance of digital accessibility and the disabled ...

I started writing this book in 2018, without knowing I was writing it. I was writing essays documenting how I saw disabled people — particularly disabled queer/trans and/or BIPOC people — fighting ...

For years, people with disabilities have been promised that autonomous vehicles are right around the corner. Self-driving cars will open up new possibilities for people with vision, hearing, and ...

Only those who became disabled by age 26 have been eligible for ABLE accounts. But Congress raised the age to 46, so more military veterans and others can qualify as of 2026. By Ann Carrns Disabled ...

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) makes it illegal for insurance companies to charge drivers higher car insurance rates solely based on their disability. However, disabled drivers and ...

Slice is the author of Unfit Parent: A Disabled Mother Challenges an Inaccessible World Slice with her daughter. Slice is the author of Unfit Parent: A Disabled Mother Challenges an Inaccessible World ...

Mattlin is a Los Angeles-based writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, CNN, and elsewhere, and been broadcast on NPR's Morning Edition. He is the ...

The burden of being perceived as different persists. The solution to this problem is community. By Andrew Solomon Mr. Solomon is a professor of clinical psychology at Columbia University and the ...

On Sept. 16, 2016, Terence Crutcher's car stalled on a busy road on the Northside of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Crutcher, an amateur singer, had just left Tulsa Community College, where he'd found out that his ...