Tag: Disability
Job supervisors with disabilities can boost productivity, new research shows
Dustin Cole, Auburn University
Some large companies, such as Walgreens, Wells Fargo and Proctor & Gamble, are successfully integrating...
When Paralympic athletes fake the extent of their disability
Jaime Schultz, Penn State
More than 4,000 athletes with physical, vision and intellectual impairments will compete in 22 sports...
Digital inaccessibility: Blind and low-vision people have powerful technology but still...
Michele McDonnall, Mississippi State University
Imagine that you have low vision and you’re completing an online job application using...
How workplaces can create more inclusive environments for employees with deafness...
David C Baldridge, Oregon State University; Brent John Lyons, York University, Canada; Camellia Bryan, University of Toronto, and Liu-Qin Yang, Portland State...
A librarian recommends 5 fun fiction books for kids and teens...
Rebecca Weber, Oklahoma State University
Disability representation is slowly increasing in books geared toward children and teens.
Soaring inflation prompts biggest Social Security cost-of-living boost since 1981 –...
John W. Diamond, Rice University
Social Security is set to boost the benefits it provides retirees by 8.7%, the...
On 50th anniversary of Attica uprising, 4 essential reads on prisoners’...
Matt Williams, The Conversation
On Sept. 9, 1971, nearly 1,300 incarcerated men at Attica Correctional Facility in New York...
Why getting more people with disabilities developing technology is good for...
Kristen Shinohara, Rochester Institute of Technology and Garreth Tigwell, Rochester Institute of Technology
Unless you’re blind or know someone...
EXPLORING NATURE
India’s new mega-dam will roil lives downstream with wild swings in...
Parag Jyoti Saikia, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Hey Rupam, open the door. Take this fish,” a...
