We live in a world shaped by the stories we tell — about ourselves, about others, and about what it means to live a good life. But when society tells only one story about disability — that it is a ...

Ways of thinking about disability differ across cultures and can be classified into three general models: the moral model, the medical model, and the social model (Olkin & Pledger, 2003). Under the ...

All communities and social movements change. If they don’t, they stagnate, lose relevance, and die. The process of change is almost always uncomfortable, sometimes painful, but usually valuable in the ...

Kerri Heng is passionate about qualitative research in disability and mental health. A recent graduate of the Master of Arts in Sociology programme at Nanyang Technological University, her Master's ...

The narratives embedded in disability policy influence everything from budget priorities to program eligibility and ...

A woman walking past a man in a wheelchair, who is at the base of a staircase. Source: Viacheslav Yakobchuk / Adobe Stock In 1904, H. G. Wells published a short story titled, “The Country of the Blind ...

Outdated models of disability still dominate thinking in our built environment. Approaches grounded in old medical and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andrew Pulrang writes about disability practices, policy, and culture. The field of disability services and advocacy is changing.

But many are still confused about autism even though this term became widely used in the 1940s. Some wonder if vaccines cause it. Can parents make it happen? No and no! Others question whether we as a ...