disability

People with disabilities are disproportionately affected by disasters, but have fewer options in emergencies. Our previous research has shown how natural hazards for people with disabilities can:Power failure for life support…

The Kansas Supreme Court overturned the appeals court on Friday, ruling that a law passed in 2013 requiring that employee disability assessment be based on specific guidelines is not unconstitutional. The Supreme Court said that…

Workers are injured all the time, both at work and outside. In 2009, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported 1,238,490 cases of injury or illness in the United States that required days to recover before work. In addition, according to…

On January 30th, 2017, a federal judge gave an employer a summary judgment on an ADA discrimination claim, including the grounds that the employee's diabetes was not a disability under the ADA. The court found that the worker had provided…

getty The phrase “Everything that’s going on” has rarely been so potent. Presidential Election results have been openly challenged in Congress. The Capitol building itself has been physically attacked by a wild but disturbingly…

The Lake County League of Libraries and the Diversity Center in northeast Ohio will discuss disability rights and access at the next meeting of their Big IDEA Book Club on January 21st at 6:30 pm.The group's…

By Baldwin Ndaba 4h agoShare this article:shareTweetshareshareshareE-mailshareJohannesburg - The government has agreed to renew requests for temporary disability grants in response to increasing pressure from opposition parties and civil…

Jalaluddin Kazi*, 38, lives with bipolar disorder and often has seizures. A resident of North Dumdum near Kolkata, he drove a rented electric rickshaw to support his wife and two children, on days he was able to work. His wife…

Can people with physical disabilities get a reservation for transportation if their entry point is not a person with disabilities under the Law on People with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation)?…

Tammy Martin has spent more than a decade making it easy for young students with special needs to learn to read - a skill she too would have difficulty with if she didn't have a state-of-the-art device that could clearly see the words on…