How Wearing High Heels During my Commute Helped Me to Be a Better Social Worker
Ableism is the idea that people with disabilities are not typical and are, therefore, inferior. Upon reflection, I have engaged...
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New Study Looks at End-of-Life Decision-Making for People with Intellectual Disabilities
A new study by researchers at the University at Buffalo provides a groundbreaking look at how advance care planning medical...
Moving Beyond “Fixing” People: Social Work Practice with People with Disabilities
Working on a boarding high-school campus, I have the opportunity to be exposed to different students. During my first year,...
How Disability Culture Can Inform Mentoring Girls with Disabilities
Photo Credit: Big Sister Association I am a social work intern at the Big Sister Association of Boston. This is...
Colin Kaepernick and How Self Care Must Go Pro
For years, permanently injured players have been left to figure out how they will financially support their families and how...
Hurricane Irma: Two Things Helping Professionals Need to Know About People with Disabilities
Photo: AP The state of Florida has called for 17,000 volunteers to help out with the post-Irma recovery process, but...
A Teacher’s Response to Charlottesville for Social Workers in Practice with People with Disabilities
Officer patrols in front of a recent KKK rally in Charlottesville, Va. - Jill Mumie I am currently teaching a...
Becoming the Champion for Supported Autonomy
Autonomy is often used to mean independence. Though their dictionary definitions are similar and they are synonyms of each other, I...
Freedom for Ryan King: One Less Barrier to Independence for Individuals with Disabilities
Ryan King, 33, works at Safeway in Northwest Washington. King, who has intellectual disabilities, and his parents want him to...
My Friend is a Superhero – The Story of a Free Children’s Comic Book About Diversity and Disability
Sometimes we need to be the change that we want to see in the world. Philip Patson - Creative and...
How Do You Feel About Non-Disabled Actors Portraying Disabled Characters?
Actor Sam Claflin played Will Traynor, a wealthy young banker, left paralyzed from an accident. Photo Credit: Movie "Me Befor...
The Presidential Policy Series: Disability Rights
The Presidential Policy Series covers where the Democratic and Republican presidential nominees, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, respectively, stand on healthcare...
Helping Your Client Technically Qualify for SSDI and SSI
If you have a client with a disability or mental illness, he or she may want to apply for Social...
How Eye See It challenge: Peter Alexander, driven by sister’s fading sight, dons blindfold
Today.com For years, NBC correspondent Peter Alexander watched his sister, Rebecca, battle an illness that slowly robbed her of sight...
Music Therapy and Its Healing Potential
Music therapy has proven to be highly efficient as a therapeutic intervention in medical and personal settings, and it is...
The Employment Paradox with Technology
I attended a workshop on accessible employment recently and was reminded, as I've written about before, what a fraught topic...
Five Fun Sensory Activities To Engage Children and Adults
Colorful shiny jelly set on the dark background Sensory toys, games and activities have so many benefits to children with...
CleverCare Watch Brings Peace of Mind
A few weeks ago at the Home and Community Health Association conference, I met some of the team behind CleverCare,...
5 Ways to Avoid Assumptions
We all do it. See someone new and, within seconds, our brains start making up stories about them. Or we...
Common Core: Disabled Students Deserve Better
A few years ago, my brother came home from school in tears. An A and B student with an intellectual...
