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 ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Only some 40 percent of disabled people are employed. But even that low figure is ...

Disability is human. It is quite common. Yet it also makes many of us uncomfortable. You might be looking forward to meeting a new colleague. And then you notice a visible disability, and somehow ...

WASHINGTON – Disability rights advocates breathed a sigh of relief now that the Supreme Court has made it easier for students with disabilities to sue schools for damages. Not only did all the ...

In a tangled decision, the justices ruled against a disabled firefighter who sued her former employer for refusing her health benefits after she had retired. By Abbie VanSickle and Adam Liptak ...

WASHINGTON − For years, Gina and Aaron Tharpe argued that a local school district hadn't done enough to accommodate their daughter, who has a rare form of epilepsy and severe cognitive impairment. An ...

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Complaints of disability discrimination in the nation’s schools are at their highest level in six years, the U.S. Department of Education says. A newly released annual report shows that the agency’s ...