I read the email five times before it sank in. I was offered my dream job at a top university as a researcher specializing in employment and disability. I accepted the offer. But there was a catch — a ...

July is Disability Pride Month. Like a lot of people with disabilities, I have been trying all month to figure out how I feel about “disability pride” — not so much the emerging, semi-official ...

My son Otto started preschool this fall. The previous year, during every daycare pickup, our reunion was routinely punctuated by the same questions from the other 3-year-olds in the room: Why are you ...

My wheelchair hides my worst disability. Most people probably think that having spinal muscular atrophy — a neuromuscular weakness I’ve had since birth — is the nastiest thing that ever happened to me ...

Mr. Hirsch is a poet, a critic and the president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. I have been gradually going blind for the past 20 years. I didn’t pay attention — I thought I needed ...

A few years ago, I sat on the porch trying to console Rebecca, a 26-year-old woman with cerebral palsy. Earlier that day a few volunteers at our Joni and Friends Retreat for special needs families ...

Miele is principal accessibility researcher at Amazon and a 2021 MacArthur Fellow. He is a blind scientist, community leader, and inventor with a history of developing information-accessibility ...

Disability Pride Flag: A charcoal grey flag with a diagonal band from the top left to bottom right corner, made up of five parallel stripes in red, gold, pale grey, blue, and green. Source: Ann ...