A photo illustration with a green background, showing a disabled parking space with the typical adjoining white-painted crosswalk lines, a hand propelling the wheel of a wheelchair, and a person ...

As a teacher, you want all of your students to reach their academic potential. However, not everyone learns at the same pace or in the same way. That means you need to be prepared to provide ...

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol (A/RES/61/106) was adopted on 13 December 2006 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, and was opened for ...

Today marks the end of National Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month but that does not mean people should stop trying to include people with developmental disabilities in all facets of life. The ...

Many people with type 2 diabetes don’t identify as being disabled, but the condition is a protected disability under federal law. You have certain protections at work and in public places if you live ...

Yes, any type of diabetes can qualify as a disability under federal law. You can get legal protections at school and work because of this condition. Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a lifelong autoimmune ...

Growing up, I didn’t know much about learning disabilities. I'm older than social media (and the internet), and it wasn’t until I was in a teaching program in graduate school that I learned more about ...