When a young, admired, and beloved disability activist named Stacey Park Milbern passed away last week, I found myself once again going through one of the defining experiences of the disability ...

There seems to be a wide gap between how we talk about “The Disability Community,” and the number of disabled people who actually feel like a part of it. Most disabled people want to connect with a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Disability advocates rally outside the State House in November, protesting new rules Developmental Disability Administration rules ...

Roughly one in four adults in the U.S. lives with some type of disability, yet many remain underrepresented in the workforce.

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 ...

In the past, the National Center on Disability and Journalism’s disability language style guide prioritized the use of person-first language — advising language like “person with a disability,” for ...

Note: This story uses person-first language (“people with disabilities”) and identity-first language (“disabled people”) interchangeably, per the mixed use in various interviews. Please note that ...

The first time Tammy Carrillo enrolled at East Los Angeles College (ELAC), she didn’t know she had a learning disability. She also hadn’t thought of herself as college material. At her continuation ...