Recently a third year student at the University of Winchester studying Theatre Production (Arts & Stage Management) contacted me. Her focal topic is looking at “able bodied...
The Presidential Policy Series covers where the Democratic and Republican presidential nominees, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, respectively, stand on healthcare policy issues. Although it seems like...
If you have a client with a disability or mental illness, he or she may want to apply for Social Security disability benefits. Before your client...
For years, NBC correspondent Peter Alexander watched his sister, Rebecca, battle an illness that slowly robbed her of sight and hearing. He watched her struggles but...
Music therapy has proven to be highly efficient as a therapeutic intervention in medical and personal settings, and it is a growing field of practitioners. People...
I attended a workshop on accessible employment recently and was reminded, as I’ve written about before, what a fraught topic employment is these days — for...
Sensory toys, games and activities have so many benefits to children with various additional needs owing to the multitude of ways these resources can be used....
A few weeks ago at the Home and Community Health Association conference, I met some of the team behind CleverCare, a new service that connects an...
We all do it. See someone new and, within seconds, our brains start making up stories about them. Or we meet them, exchange a few words...
A few years ago, my brother came home from school in tears. An A and B student with an intellectual disability who always did his homework,...
Recently, I spent an hour at Rosebank Primary School in Avondale, Auckland, speaking as a Duffy Books in Homes Role Model. It’s something I’ve done a couple of times...
It concludes about 80% of the job postings I find require a driver’s licence and vehicle as a condition for employment. For many people, this is...
I’ve recently changed how I describe myself or, more accurately, my experience. I now talk about “my paradoxical experience as a queer, caucasian, cisgender man with...
The Achieving a Better Life Experience Act (ABLE) was signed into law by the President on December 19, 2014. Tax-free savings accounts can now be built...
Though it may be the most wonderful time of the year, the Holiday season can be dangerous for individuals and families impacted by domestic violence. Those...
For our youngest disabled children, assistive devices that would allow them to gain independence by moving freely in their homes is a considerable and serious gap...
In late September, HUD’s Secretary Julián Castro made the announcement that nearly $8 million in grant funding will be used to assist thousands of people with disabilities...
When David Freud stated that some disabled people were “not worth” the minimum wage, he was not saying this for shock effect. It was said in...
Much like institutionalization of people with disabilities, sheltered workshops started with someone’s heart being in the right place. Starting around the middle of the 20th century,...
Recently, the United States Department of Justice announced the launch of the Elder Justice website which was created to help further combat elder abuse and financial...
Conversations about police violence are happening all over the world from the killing of Mr. George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Jacob...
We’re all public health nerds now, and many of us have stepped up our games when it comes to washing...
The Tourette Association of America (TAA), the premier national nonprofit organization serving the Tourette Syndrome (TS) and Tic Disorder community,...
On May 15, 2020, Rep. Karen Bass, co-Chair of the Congressional Caucus on Foster Youth, and Rep. Gwen Moore will...
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