Tag: Disability
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...
US prisons hold more than 550,000 people with intellectual disabilities –...
Jennifer Sarrett, Emory University
Prison life in the U.S. is tough. But when you have an intellectual, developmental or...
Emotional support animals can endanger the public and make life harder...
Deni Elliott, University of South Florida
In 2017, Marlin Jackson boarded a cross-country flight. When he got to his row, another passenger was already in...
5 tips for parents to build communication skills with children with...
Sanikan Wattanawongwan, Texas A&M University and J. Ganz, Texas A&M University
We are researchers who coach parents to communicate with children with disabilities.
Here...
How ‘America’s Got Talent’ contestant Kodi Lee shattered stereotypes about disability
Stan Link, Vanderbilt University
If you haven’t seen Kodi Lee’s May 28 performance on “America’s Got Talent,” it’s worth a watch.
The 22-year-old Lee is blind...
College students with disabilities are too often excluded
Christa Bialka, Villanova University
AnnCatherine Heigl, a sophomore at George Mason University, recently attempted to join all eight sororities at her school. All eight turned...
EXPLORING NATURE
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
