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 ...

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 ...

Washington Law Against Discrimination defines "disability" as "a sensory, mental or physical condition that is medically cognizable or diagnosable, exists as a record or history or is perceived to ...

It's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Audie Cornish. All this week, we're reporting on a remarkable increase in the size of the country's disability programs. Fourteen million Americans now ...

The Trump administration wants to cut back disability benefits for low-income and older Americans by up to 20%, a move that ...

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 ...

A child with arthritis has problems walking every day but only on the worst days has trouble getting dressed or eating. A child with an IQ of 75 has difficulty communicating and is being treated for ...

In 1904, H. G. Wells published a short story titled, “The Country of the Blind” (Wells, 2004). The story takes place in a village located in a valley hidden deep in the Ecuadorean Andes. A landslide ...