When Jessy Yates started at the Yale School of Drama in 2018, she was the first wheelchair-using student in the program’s history. “I knew that I was going to be teaching the faculty how to teach me,” ...
New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that about 1.1 million adults in Maryland have a disability. Photo by Danielle J. Brown In the 30 years she has been working with ...
According to the online news site Vox, last year's Women's March on Washington was one of the largest gatherings of people with disabilities in U.S. history - exceeding demonstrations by disability ...
Having a disability does not prevent anyone from being a capable and loving parent. Yet, it does present a set of unique challenges – challenges that Nicole Schultz-Kass, a 37-year-old blind mother ...
This column explores the need for the disability narrative as a way to rethink the culture wars and create a pathway towards a greater sense of humanistic thinking to help define solutions in 21st ...
A $1.2 trillion deal to fund the federal government includes more money for special education and disability employment, but many other programs benefiting people with disabilities were not as lucky.
[From left to right] Gwen Squire, Lee Allan Hartlieb, Mike Rogers and Alex Jusko sit for an interview at WBFO's studios on April 22, 2024. Squire, Hartlieb, Rogers and Jusko started Outside the Box ...