A woman walking past a man in a wheelchair, who is at the base of a staircase. Source: Viacheslav Yakobchuk / Adobe Stock In 1904, H. G. Wells published a short story titled, “The Country of the Blind ...

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a piece of civil rights legislation designed to protect the rights of people with disabilities. It was passed into law in 1991 and guarantees equal rights ...

Ten years ago, Congress passed the ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA). The law was intended to address what legislators believed was courts’ overly strict reading of the definition of disability under the ...

As many employment lawyers are now well aware, determining what is and what is not a “disability” under the applicable laws can be a litigation minefield. With the enactment of the ADA Amendments Act ...

The psychiatry profession’s newly revised reference manual on mental disorders changes the definition and classification for many disabilities commonly seen in schools, but those changes—at times ...

Social Security employees are often asked about our disability programs. Disability insurance is an important part of the income protection that every worker and his or her family has under Social ...

Radical technologies around the world may soon overhaul the field of disability and immobility, which affects in some way more than a billion people around the world. MIT bionics designer Hugh Herr, ...

The Disability Discrimination Act remains one of Australia’s most important human rights laws, but for it to protect people ...

The government is set to widen the definition of “disability” to bring the count of physically challenged persons in sync with the ground situation, heeding complaints that the numbers are highly ...