What do you think of when you think of disability? Someone in a wheelchair? Someone who is blind and has a cane? Whatever they look like, their impairment means life can be harder for them. The fact ...

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 ...

Unlike medical sociology, which emerged through the medical model of disease, disability studies emerged from disability rights activism and scholarship. Rather than viewing disability as pathological ...

Mobility is the ability to move. A disability is the result of an impairment that affects a person’s ability to carry out tasks. For example, a person may find it difficult to walk very far due to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A generation ago, people with disabilities were rarely in the room when their welfare was under discussion. Decisions about their ...

An estimated 15% of the world’s population experience some form of disability. Across Europe and Central Asia, persons with disabilities represent one of the largest segments of the population that ...

Health and medicine is more than just biological – societal forces can get under your skin and cause illness. Medical ...