If you are recently disabled and have been thinking about filing for Social Security disability benefits, I have some good news for you. There is a new "Disability Starter Kit" that can help you get ...
Licensed social worker and disability consultant Vilissa Thompson, LMSW, was born with osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), a rare group of disorders better known as brittle bone disease. Those with brittle ...
Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. I have been curiously observing the aftermath of the pandemic as it relates to the ...
Though covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, job candidates with a record of a disability may be adversely evaluated. Two experiments demonstrate that subtle knowledge of a prior ...
In the past, the National Center on Disability and Journalism’s disability language style guide prioritized the use of person-first language — advising language like “person with a disability,” for ...
This interview appeared in the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) March Bulletin. Not enough attention is being paid to working with the large number of people in communities who ...
Disability is not inability, and when everyone can understand that it's what differently abled individuals bring to the table that matters — and not what their diagnosis is — is when we'll have a ...