Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andrew Pulrang writes about disability practices, policy, and culture. Where can people with disabilities and their families turn ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law on July 26, 1990. Every July we recognize Disability Pride Month to commemorate the passage of this landmark civil rights law. This ...

About 25% of 20 year olds could become disabled before reaching retirement age. That prediction is from the Social Security Administration, which added that these adults would be entitled to its ...

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Coauthored by Kate Copeland and Kathleen Bogart, Ph.D. Source: Justin Katigbak / Disabled and Here / Creative Commons attribution license Imagine waking up every day knowing that you’ll have to ...

The U.S. Department of Education is investing $236 million into a perennial challenge in education: Helping young people with disabilities move from K-12 schools to post-secondary programs and the ...

Recently, the Northeast Indiana Disability Advocacy Coalition co-sponsored a mayoral town hall that focused on disability issues. The reason for this town hall was simple: Disability issues are ...

D isability accommodations in American higher education are skyrocketing. In the past decade, the proportion of colleges with more than 10 percent of students registered as disabled has quintupled, ...

Disabled people are disproportionately incarcerated and segregated from society through a variety of institutions. Still, the links between disability and incarceration are underexplored, limiting ...