Understanding Disabilities, a Reading-based nonprofit providing disability awareness education to elementary and middle school students for 32 years, has announced the unveiling of a new website, UD ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andrew Pulrang writes about disability practices, policy, and culture. For the last several years there is been a place online ...

Potomac — Potomac’s St. Andrew’s Episcopal School Gym was over-flowing with students, parents and friends cheering the Wayside staff team on as they held their own against the acclaimed wheelchair ...

Understanding the challenges of living with a disability can be a difficult task when it’s not seen firsthand, according to Dr. Alysha Nordstrorm, Misericordia University psychology professor. So ...

As a social psychologist at a liberal-arts college, I try to help students recognize, and perhaps overcome, stereotyped expectations about diverse social groups. About 20 years ago, after working on a ...

Kids with learning disabilities can still thrive in school. We want to believe that grades are simply a product of motivation and effort ― that if a child truly wants to do well in school and works ...

I could go through the entire alphabet to describe the activities and initiatives of February 2018–Jewish Disability Awareness and Inclusion Month. We’re justifiably proud of our accomplishments. It’s ...

Correspondent photo / John Patrick Gatta Beyond Expectations Barber School student Robert McCrae of Youngstown, left, supervises as Erika Mike of Boardman uses an air hose to blow off cut hair from ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. Colleges and universities have struggled to explain just what diversity, equity and ...

The ability to earn a living is an asset many people take for granted. If you are young and in good health, it’s unlikely you’ve given much thought to what would happen if you became disabled.

I was in fourth grade when I first learned about Crazy Mary. I was cutting out circles for an art project that my class was working on with our assigned big buddies from the seventh grade class. My ...