It's something many parents will be familiar with. You're out in public, when your child sees someone with disability and loudly blurts something out about why that person looks different. The ...

The law would allow the logo to be put on driver's licenses and IDs to indicate to police that a person has an invisible disability like mental health, autism or hearing impairment.

1. Use of inappropriate euphemisms for Disability embedded in our language yet no longer culturally acceptable. Many have biases and conceptions that disability is negative, leading them to view ...

At the 2025 Met Gala, canes and eye patches were some of the standout accessories — here's what that meant to me as a person with a disability.

Nearly 300 readers shared their disability stories with NPR. This is what they want you to know about living with a disability. Courtesy of Laura Williams, Hannah Soyer, Denise DiNoto, Marty ...

Lori Long visited her congress person Rep. Jimmy Panetta and explained how outdated restrictions on some disability benefits prevent disabled people from marrying.

Disability rights advocates argued that the change would decrease the estimated share of the U.S. population with any disability by around 40%, from 13.9% of the country to 8.1%, NPR previously ...

The scene is familiar, yet jarring—thousands in motion, one person still. Nobody stops. Nobody looks. ... Why the 2026–27 census must finally count every person with disability.

So, Eric Carpenter-Latham came up with a logo idea to keep him and his friends safe. "Please support Eric's ID Law so that all people with disabilities are safe, and my mom always told me this ...

People with disability are missing out on screening programs that could help detect cancer early, and after diagnosis, are less likely to survive, our study shows. Overall, this means people with ...

In 2022, Marci Straughter, of Dublin, became the first person eligible for services appointed to the Franklin County Board of Developmental Disabilities, The Columbus Dispatch reported.She was ...

When people with disabilities aren’t included in disaster plans, the results can be deadly, advocates say. They advise that people make plans in case of wildfires or other emergencies.