Public schools could, and often did, force students with disabilities into separate classes regardless of their abilities. Businesses were not usually accessible to them, and employers could refuse to ...

Disability accommodations made it possible for me to become a professor and are vital to the success of many of my disabled students and colleagues.

Judy Heumann, who has been called the “mother of the disability rights movement, has died at 75. Heumann, who lost her ability to walk at age 2 after contracting polio, lobbied for legislation ...

Empire State University hosted an interactive theater game tonight, inspired by the historic San Francisco 504 Sit-Ins of ...

the disability rights movement, people from the private sector, researchers and the United Nations – to work together to change the narrative on disability, and to make human rights-based development ...

James LeBrecht moved to the cradle of the disabled rights ... the movement,” LeBrecht, an Oscar-nominated filmmaker whose new documentary is “Change, Not Charity: The Americans With ...

This development has left the disability community reeling. "What America needs now is a coordinated ... which dealt a major setback to the disabled rights movement. The ramifications have been ...

He witnessed firsthand the origins of the movement, as his mother and father played integral roles in advancing disability rights. According to Shaw, one of the earliest victories was a 1966 ...