It’s not a position you’ll find at most organizations – Executive Director of Accessibility – but it’s one that GBH’s Donna Danielewski relishes. Over nearly two decades at GBH, she’s helped continue ...

This is another installment in Birmingham Times/AL.com/CBS42 joint series “Beyond the Violence: what can be done to address Birmingham’s rising homicide rate ...

My son Otto started preschool this fall. The previous year, during every daycare pickup, our reunion was routinely punctuated by the same questions from the other 3-year-olds in the room: Why are you ...

Congress is back in D.C. with plans to move forward on a budget framework that could include cuts to Medicaid. About one in three people with disabilities is enrolled in the program which helps them ...

Dear Eric: My psychologically disabled adult son who also suffers from chronic physical illnesses will live with me for the remainder of my life as I care for him. His medications, doctor visits, and ...

Sometimes, when she’s out shopping or running errands, Shelby Hintze of Salt Lake City finds places where she simply cannot go. Hintze, 32, was born with a progressive neuromuscular disorder called ...

This month marks 34 years since the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law, and Disability Pride Month was officially established nearly a decade ago. As one blind author and illustrator ...

“I wanted to be a (fill in the blank), but who would hire me?” I find this sense of anticipatory rejection, when spoken aloud by teens and young adults with disabilities, to be the most heart-breaking ...

So often we see people with disabilities as people who are suffering, and that’s if we even see them at all. Disabled people are rarely given center stage and rarely made the subject of any story.

KEPT FLYING, HEADING OFF TO COLLEGE. IT’S A RITE OF PASSAGE FOR MANY YOUNG ADULTS, BUT FOR THOSE WITH DISABILITIES, THE TRADITION ISN’T ALWAYS AN OPTION. NOW, ONE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN CAMPUS IS ...