Introduction / Michael Rembis, Catherine Kudlick, and Kim E. Nielsen -- Part I. Concepts and questions. The perils and promises of disability biography / Kim E. Nielsen -- Disability history and Greco ...

July marks the 13th anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). And although there is no direct correlation between the provisions of that legislation and the Social ...

Feeble-minded. Idiot. Imbecile. Moron. Those were words used to describe people with mental disabilities by Delaware medical professionals in the 20th century. People with disabilities, including ...

A one-of-a-kind museum chronicling disability history is reopening after a five-year hiatus in a new, bigger space that’s hundreds of miles away from its previous home. The Museum of Disability ...

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law on July 26, 1990. Every July we recognize Disability Pride Month to commemorate the passage of this landmark civil rights law. This ...

Judy Heumann’s death last year was deeply felt in the disability community. Often called “the mother” of the disability rights movement, her activism had a lasting impact on millions of Americans. Yet ...

In medical school, we spend a lot of time learning how to take a patient’s medical history. We practice asking specifically worded questions in a structured way to develop “muscle memory” and allow us ...

Ways of thinking about disability differ across cultures and can be classified into three general models: the moral model, the medical model, and the social model (Olkin & Pledger, 2003). Under the ...