ADA

When medical offices are not physically accessible, people with mobility disabilities can miss routine care, screenings, and early treatment. Accessibility is not just a compliance issue; it directly affects health.

Jennifer Robbins

Online communities can offer neurodivergent people connection, communication, and belonging. But when those spaces become exclusionary or controlling, the loss can be especially painful.

Dr. Janice Ryan

A glance toward a light, a calmer breath, or a repeated sensory choice can carry important meaning. This article shows how practitioners can notice those small signals and use them to support comfort, choice, and participation.

Massimo Lorusso

Needing assistance does not erase autonomy. Massimo Lorusso reflects on how support can either expand a disabled person’s choices or quietly become a form of control.

Kelli Caughman

Representation matters in advocacy. The Black Down Syndrome Association is creating space for Black families and self-advocates to connect, be seen, and help shape a more inclusive Down syndrome community.

Terry Healey

Terry Healey’s cancer experience changed both his appearance and the direction of his life. In reflecting on what came after, he explores how adversity can become a source of empathy, purpose, gratitude, and resilience.

Dr. Nevin Zablotsky

New nicotine products may reduce exposure to some harms of combustible tobacco, but they also raise difficult questions about addiction, youth marketing, and whether “harm reduction” is becoming another way to sustain the nicotine market.

Angela Shaw

New special education teachers do not have to figure everything out alone. Collaboration, practical problem-solving, and proactive planning can help them build confidence while creating stronger supports for students.

Miriam Edelman

Future clinicians need more than clinical knowledge to provide good disability care. UCEDD and LEND programs are showing how lived experience, community-based learning, and disability-focused education can help prepare students for more inclusive practice.

Katie Morrison

Research is stronger when people with disabilities help shape it. Katie Morrison shares how her own path from participant to research team member shows the value of meaningful inclusion, mentorship, and lived experience.

Helen Keller’s life is often treated as extraordinary, but the real lesson is more practical: education, accessibility, adaptive tools, and support can open opportunities that disability alone does not erase.

Samantha Thumma

Community-based care depends on a fragile mix of legal protections, Medicaid funding, and state systems. As federal policy shifts, those supports may come under new pressure, with serious consequences for people with disabilities who rely on them to live in their communities.

Disability-affirming practice, medical education and older patients, oral health and ultraprocessed foods, national IDD data, complex pediatric care transitions, IEPs, and more.

Disability rights, aging caregivers, healthcare affordability, dementia risk, prostate cancer screening disparities, Alzheimer’s research, research terminology, and more.