Disability Awareness and Appreciation

    Following the well-publicized horrific abuse of adults at with intellectual disabilities Willowbrook in the late 1970s (but much later than the horrors Nellie Bly reported in Ten [...]

    Black History Month has been an especially important time to recognize important events and people of African descent. The Association for the Study of African American Life and [...]

  Haben Girma has been in the news a great deal. And with good reason. A notable piece recently appeared in The Guardian, and she was featured in a BBC […]

Throughout the year, most awareness months and days are on a national scale. The U.N. International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD) is different. IDPD is a global effort to […]

“I am here.… We are here… and we want to the world to know!” That is the message of advocacy and self-advocacy that people with cerebral palsy and those who […]

  Just over a half century ago marked the passing of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, amended by Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. Twenty-five years later and […]

      It all started with a 2011 blog that, by chance, was discovered on Twitter. The writer, Joe Devon, said, “Relatively, there isn’t a lot of great information […]

    It’s one of the most recognizable symbols; yet, it represents a complete mystery. A jigsaw puzzle is made up of many interlocking pieces. Each piece is a different […]

  March 21. That’s Three twenty-one. These numbers are symbolic of the medical name for Down syndrome: trisomy 21. In humans, each cell normally has 23 pairs of chromosomes, which […]

    Black History Month is an important time to recognize important events and people of African descent. The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) has [...]