By David Davis — 2020
The Paralympics had not yet been invented. These veterans were sports trailblazers. They were medical miracles as well.
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Businesses should make an extra effort to connect with workers with disabilities, a ready, capable, and sizable workforce 20 million people strong.
An 80-year-old law makes it legal to pay people with disabilities less than minimum wage.
Millions of young people grew up knowing the landmark Americans With Disabilities Act as a birthright. They now demand its guarantees — and even more.
“If you’re trying to get home and the bus keeps passing you up because you’re in a wheelchair, you have to scream out.”
Technology isn’t always the answer.
Inclusion of people with disabilities into everyday activities involves practices and policies designed to identify and remove barriers such as physical, communication, and attitudinal, that hamper individuals’ ability to have full participation in society, the same as people without disabilities.
We can all learn something from the unique challenges of veteran Tim Smith and other service members who start companies.
Netflix and the BBC will work together, in an unprecedented move, to promote disabled creatives on and off screen.
Plenty of people love to describe the world of athletics in utopian terms, using words such as “colorblind” and “open-minded” and “meritocracy.” They’re not wrong to regard their realm as better than the so-called real world.
At the Tokyo Olympics, Japanese athletes who fell short of gold have apologized profusely — sometimes, even after winning silver.