Great Britain's John McFall (left) won a bronze medal at the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing. Andrew Wong / Getty Images In a bid to make spaceflight more inclusive, the European Space Agency (ESA) ...

European Space Agency astronaut John McFall tests his prosthesis fit in simulated microgravity. ESA / DLR, ESA Standard Licence John McFall, a former Paralympian for Great Britain, has just become the ...

For those who have never heard of the social model of disability it is best explained as the civil rights view of disablement. It separates impairment from disability and focuses on the responsibility ...

Introduction The systematic deprivation of equal access to valued opportunities has greatly harmed the disadvantaged. Discrimination, whether it is based on gender, race, sexual orientation, or ...

When my 16-year-old daughter Claire was a little girl, I found dolls that could walk, roller skate and drive, but none that got around the way she usually did — in a wheelchair. Her little sister ...

People don't get to choose the illnesses that render them too disabled to work, but insurance companies have the power to approve or deny claims based on where in the body their condition exists. It's ...

Physical Therapists (PTs) provide services that help restore function, improve mobility, relieve pain, and prevent or limit permanent physical disabilities of patients with injuries or diseases.

The likelihood of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) maintaining their employment status in 2 years can be predicted by their levels of physical disability and executive functioning, but not by ...

Joker's reliance on tropes overshadows the valid critiques on disability culture its wants to make. By Kristen Lopez [This story contains spoilers for Joker.] In Joker’s examination of mental illness, ...

I found the essay “My 5-month Interlude as a Disabled Professor” (The Chronicle, July 15) extremely problematic for a publication that aims to embrace and celebrate diversity in higher education.