Oft quoted statistics are that 20% of the world’s population are disabled and that 15-20% of the world’s population are neurodivergent. These numbers don’t stack up. There is of course, overlap. The ...
What do you think of when you think of disability? Someone in a wheelchair? Someone who is blind and has a cane? Whatever they look like, their impairment means life can be harder for them. The fact ...
Coauthored by Scott Frankowski, PhD, Nazanin Heydarian, PhD, and Kathleen Bogart, PhD A person in a wheelchair and a standing person hug. Source: Chona Kasinger / Disabled and Here / Creative Commons ...
A woman walking past a man in a wheelchair, who is at the base of a staircase. Source: Viacheslav Yakobchuk / Adobe Stock In 1904, H. G. Wells published a short story titled, “The Country of the Blind ...
Symbolic Interaction, Vol. 43, No. 1, Special Issue: Power, Stigma, Transgression, and Exclusion in Everyday Life (FEBRUARY 2020), pp. 21-45 (25 pages) Neoliberal perspectives, policies, and practices ...
Disability can be difficult to talk about sensitively because of how embedded ableism is in our language, biases and perceptions of disability. Conversations about disability are slowly increasing, ...
Mills lives with epilepsy, and her service dog Arrow is trained to assist when she experiences a seizure. But years of experiencing first-hand misperceptions of service animals has led her to conduct ...
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