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The Fairhaven City Disability Commission recently convened for the first time in over a year after the pandemic disrupted its regular meeting schedule. The CoD's collaboration with the Massachusetts Office of Disability advocates…

Number of Disability Rights Complaints Oregon has received that a person with a disability has been forced in the more than 20 years since Oregon law was enforced: NULL, according to Bob Joondeph, executive director of Disability Rights…

I started a freestyle shot, my arms got longer, my abdomen surprisingly stable under me. After crawling, I tried the backstroke and then the breaststroke. My better right leg couldn't crack the surface with a driving kick, as I had hoped,…

This editorial first appeared in the Houston Chronicle. Guest editors do not necessarily reflect the views of the Denton Record-Chronicle.Texas Republican Senators ignored the hours of expert testimony on…

Not only the very young, people with disabilities or the elderly win here. This infrastructure bill would provide an overdue pay increase for direct caregivers, who, like child carers, are disproportionately women and colored. They are…

I also began to see how my stubbornness in the face of this pain, my struggle to defeat it with willpower, reflected the stubborn denial I held onto in the hands of my drug addiction. I was always overwhelmed by my feelings and tried to…

A recent decision by the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal (the “Tribunal”) may support school authorities, many of which have received mask waiver requests based on a parent's “sincere belief” that their child should not be needed Wearing…

Most of the existing Covid-19 recovery data is piecemeal. A large part of this comes from patient groups such as ours or country-specific studies.Even so, these early studies have provided some insight into what Covid-19 recoveries might…

Appalled by the devaluation of disabled citizens by the MAID BillSubject: "When Medically Assisted Death is Liberated from Morality." In her February 13 online…