Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andrew Pulrang writes about disability practices, policy, and culture. For the last several years there is been a place online ...

What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and how does it affect education? Passed in 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) was the culmination of decades of progress for ...

Kids with learning disabilities can still thrive in school. We want to believe that grades are simply a product of motivation and effort ― that if a child truly wants to do well in school and works ...

A specific learning disability, also known as a specific learning disorder, is a neurological condition that affects an individual’s ability to learn and process information in a specific area, like ...

As a social psychologist at a liberal-arts college, I try to help students recognize, and perhaps overcome, stereotyped expectations about diverse social groups. About 20 years ago, after working on a ...

Disability civil rights laws require equitable treatment of the approximately sixty-one million Americans with disability. However, federal reports and numerous research studies indicate that this ...

It’s one of the more common dilemmas faced by people with a noticeable disability: How should we react when children stare, point, and ask bold, unguarded questions about our disabilities in a loud ...

I could go through the entire alphabet to describe the activities and initiatives of February 2018–Jewish Disability Awareness and Inclusion Month. We’re justifiably proud of our accomplishments. It’s ...

According to the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, approximately 1 in 6 children in the United States have developmental disabilities which include physical, learning, ...