Coauthored by Sofia Dixon and Kathleen Bogart, Ph.D. Hollywood sign Source: Edgar Colomba / Pexels / Used with permission When was the last time you saw a disabled character on TV who wasn’t depicted ...

ROME (Reuters) – Sirio Persichetti can’t speak and can’t feed himself but the seven-year-old has taken the social media world by storm with his daily antics, proving that a disability is no barrier to ...

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A city's arts organisation is marking 30 years of the Disability Discrimination Act with championing slogans and artwork about deafness, disability, and/or neurodivergence (DDN). The Reasonable ...

What’s the point of working against disability prejudice — also known as ableism? Sometimes it seems like the fight against ableism boils down to little more than making sure not to offend disabled ...

A gold-medal winning Paralympian is launching a new business venture set to challenge assumptions about the careers those living with disabilities can build and the role they can play in the jobs ...

MONONA, Wis. — A new community initiative in Monona is working to dismantle long-held stereotypes about disability through an event series designed to inspire confidence and understanding.

Documentarians Ned Castle and Matt Day didn’t want their film about three Special Olympics triathletes to be overly sentimental or, as Castle put it, “inspiration porn.” In some ways, the film All You ...

A deaf waiter clears plates from customers at a cafe in Nairobi. Proof that not all inclusion is complicated. Ask the experts—people with disabilities. SIMON MAINA/AFP/Getty Images In the U.S. there ...

A 1-day public workshop will explore how stereotypes and stereotype threat (i.e., the predicament in which an individual is at risk of conforming to a widely-known negative stereotype about his or her ...

Sirio Persichetti, a 7-year-old Italian with spastic tetraplegia and cerebral palsy who has become an influencer by challenging perceptions of disability, drives his toy car in the frontyard of his ...