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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.
Making Disability Modern: Design Histories brings together leading scholars from a range of disciplinary and national perspectives to examine how designed objects and spaces contributes to the meanings of ability and disability from the late 18th century to the present day, and in homes, offices,...
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.
This book reveals that people with disabilities are the invisible force that has shaped history. They have been instrumental in the growth of freedom and birth of democracy. They have produced heavenly music and exquisite works of art. They have unveiled the scientific secrets of the universe.
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.
Disability is not only the story of someone we love or the story of whom we may become; rather it is undoubtedly the story of our nation.
An approachable guide to being a thoughtful, informed ally to disabled people, with actionable steps for what to say and do (and what not to do) and how you can help make the world a more inclusive place ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR, Booklist • “A candid, accessible cheat sheet for...