What do you really need to know about disability? If you’re not disabled yourself, and don’t have a child, spouse, brother or sister, or parent with disabilities, how knowledgeable and up to date on ...
Learning disabilities such as dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder can frustrate students, confound parents and challenge educators. But all are treatable ...
Helena Donato-Sapp is a 14-year-old activist with a searing message for educators: Do more to be a champion for students with disabilities. Helena has four learning disabilities—a visual processing ...
Nine months after its groundbreaking ceremony, a new crisis services and diagnostic center serving adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities has its framework in place and is less than a ...
When Monica Mangiacapra's youngest child, Isaac, was born in March 2022, he came into the world full of surprises — some anticipated, some not. The first surprise, the one the family anticipated, was ...
At the Paralympics this month in Paris, most of the athletes compete based on their impairments. But one track and field event — the universal relay — does just the opposite. Most events at the ...
This month marks 34 years since the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law, and Disability Pride Month was officially established nearly a decade ago. As one blind author and illustrator ...
The 2020 holidays are a bit of a mess, as the whole year has been a mess. It’s been an especially challenging and dangerous year for people with disabilities and chronic illnesses, who are at higher ...
DENVER — July is Disability Pride Month. It is a time to celebrate and embrace those with disabilities of all kinds. On July 26, 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed to prohibit ...
>> THE RESPONSE HAS BEEN OVERWHELMING. KYLIE: ON EAST CARSON STREET, CARS PASS THIS BILLBOARD. AS THEY ENTER PITTSBURGH’S SOUTH SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD. IT READS, WE ARE NO DIFFERENT. AND FEATURES ...
Michael J. Parker of Pond Lehocky Giordano LLP. COVID-19 has been a destructive force to our lives, livelihood and our families. The last thing a person who is suffering from COVID-19 needs to fear ...
RICE LAKE, Wis. — For 25 years, Katie Mettner of Rice Lake has been living a love story with her beloved husband, but there was a painful chapter that happened after a ski accident. "By the time I was ...