In psychology, there is a stigma against conducting me-search, or self-relevant research about one’s own identity or experiences. This bias overshadows the fact that self-relevant research is common ...

Congress mandates that millions of dollars each year go toward researching best practices in special education, but a new ...

New research from the Johns Hopkins Disability Health Research Center at the School of Nursing suggests that PhD graduates in science, technology, engineering, and medicine in the U.S. who were born ...

Globally, people with disabilities have worse outcomes across a wide range of indicators, including poverty, employment, education, health, and violence. 1, 2 The Convention on the Rights of Persons ...

David Allgood and Tom Stokes speak with a member of the National Park Service while visiting a trail adapted for persons with disabilities at Mammoth Cave National Park in Cave City, Ky., Friday, June ...

Disability data justice is predicated on accurate, inclusive, and equitable measures of disability. To achieve this form of justice, the processes through which we determine disability measures must ...

Much of what’s known about the experiences of people with autism and other developmental disabilities is based on Medicaid and Medicare data, but researchers are warning that a new proposal could ...

A Georgetown University professor published the second issue of a research journal on the philosophical study of disability in November exploring the diverse meanings of disability in society.

Approximately 36% of adult family caregivers have disabilities, according to an April research brief published by Brandeis ...

A diverse and inclusive workforce benefits science and research. But unless it includes people living with a disability — the largest minority group in the U.S. and around the world — research will ...

Pain is a common secondary condition in women with spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, stroke, and post-polio. Chronic pain has been found to impact functioning and complicate disability on many ...