Disability activist Alice Wong brings together a wide range of disabled voices in this important and intersectional anthology. In the chilling essay, “The Loneliness of Being Deaf in […]
Women and Girls with Disabilities | Our Work
Palestinian girls take part in the Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Gaza in December 2015. Photo by Samar Abu Al-Ouf. It is estimated that one in five women lives […]
WHO presents leading causes of death and disability worldwide: 2000-2019 – PAHO/WHO
Geneva, Switzerland, 9 December 2020 (WHO) – Non-communicable diseases now account for seven of the top 10 causes of death worldwide, according to WHO’s World Health Estimates 2019 […]
Mental health for people with disabilities
Adults with disabilities are about five times more likely to report frequent mental distress than adults without disabilities. If your mental health condition interferes with your daily activities […]
Maintaining mobility and preventing disability are key to living independently as we age
Many people worry about not being able to move around as well when they get older. They fear they won’t be able to continue their favorite activities, visit […]
Arizona Promised to Help People With Developmental Disabilities. But Some Had to Wait a Long Time. Some Did Not Get Help at All. — ProPublica
We translated this story into different formats: Margie Smeller drew the section breaks in the story. The section breaks are drawings of houses. Margie is an artist at […]
‘CripTales’ six short films tell true stories about disability
Getty There are still a few days left to enjoy a free streaming event hosted by BBC America and AMC Networks in partnership with the American Association for […]
Projections of disability-adjusted life years for chronic diseases: Reference and alternative scenarios for salt intake in Japan from 2017 to 2040 | BMC Public Health
Overall Prediction Model Structure To generate projections for 2017 to 2040, we used data from 1990 to 2016 and modeled three disease groups found to be associated with […]
Three things that influence how disabled people think about disability
Getty Almost daily issues arise that highlight the uniformity of needs and aspirations across the disability community, but also the many differences between individual disabled people. Why do […]
Keeping your life and disability insurance if you lose your job
With unemployment so high, more people will have to pay close attention to their life and disability insurance coverage as options offered by employers become less available or […]