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UNIVERSITY PARK, PA. - Judy Heumann contracted polio at the age of 18 months. At the age of five, she was denied schooling because she could not walk and was told she was a fire hazard. She did not accept that vision for her future, nor…

"What are you going to do for us people with disabilities?"That was the question that Raja Abdullah Almasabi, a disability rights defender from Yemen, asked the United Nations Security Council last week. While all council…

LAWRENCE - Judith Heumann, an advocate for lifelong disability and former special advisor to former President Barack Obama and the World Bank, is with the University of Kansas to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the Disabled Americans…

Helen Keller - the first deaf-blind person to graduate from college - is impaled by an activist she calls another privileged white lady who learns the hero's story…