61 million Americans live with a disability. Finding a job can be even more challenging for people who use a wheelchair or cane. Physically disabilities are often treated like a monolith and ...
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July is Disability Pride Month. Melissa Gates, who is physically disabled and uses a cane or scooter to move around, was actively searching and applying for a federal job. It took her 20 years before ...
As the Game of Thrones Little Person character Tyrion Lannister tells Jon Snow about Jon’s newly paralyzed half brother, Bran Stark, “If you’re going to be a cripple, it’s better to be a rich cripple.
A team of researchers led by Keele University - comprising psychologists, GPs, and nurses - are leading a new study funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) to help ...
While our lives are deeply entangled with technologies of all kinds, technology can be seen as a “solution” to the “problem” of disability. This kind of story might be what you expect, or even desire, ...
Eleven years ago in North Dakota, Shawn Strobl had an accident that would change his life. While working in an oil field there, he ruptured a disc in his neck, causing excruciating nerve pain and ...