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Living with DisabilityThe fear, uncertainty, and isolation of the pandemic era have been hard for many to cope with since Spring 2020. A new study from Oregon State University indicates that people with disabilities experi
Living with DisabilityBased on the United States census from 2000, there are 49.7 million Americans over the age of four living with a disability . Each and everyone who, thanks to the Americans with Disabilities Act of 19
Living with DisabilityMany people face barriers to healthcare as the system is presently structured, and persons with disabilities are often disproportionately affected by those barriers and likely to face additional ones.
Living with DisabilityOver the decades, affordability, housing shortages, and the housing crisis have made the real estate market a daunting industry for millions. For the one in four people with disabilities in the United
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Living with DisabilityThe United States faces an affordable housing crisis that disproportionately impacts persons with disabilities. The nation's supply of affordable housing is too low to keep pace with demand. Because m
Living with DisabilityThere's an artificial divide that often pops up in conversations on American life, something that the Independent Living Movement (ILM) is not immune to. While it's easy to split up the concerns facin
Living with DisabilityI keep my sporting medals behind my desk to remind me of a former life. You can see them in my Zoom background if you peer long or hard enough. They are not all that important on the scale of things,
Living with DisabilityAs thousands of para-athletes across the globe converge on Beijing to compete in the 2022 Paralympic Games, China is expected to top medal counts once again after dominating in the last five Winter Ga
Living with DisabilityE-Scooter systems have taken the world by storm. Almost 250 cities in the United States have implemented e-scooter programs. In Canada, one of the largest e-scooter companies recorded 1.3 million trip
Living with DisabilitySecond Sight was founded to help persons with blindness and low vision through neurostimulation technology. They’re the developers of the Argus and Argus II retinal implants and the Orion brain implan
Living with DisabilityAll of us are affected by where we live. Unfortunately, despite the ADA's over three-decade existence, many American cities still lag in accessible design, making daily routines more complicated for t
Living with DisabilityAfter weeks of escalating tensions in the region, Russian President Vladimir Putin began a military invasion of Ukraine Thursday morning. Russian troops entered the capital city Kyiv and other major c
Living with DisabilityIn the fifty years of the Independent Living Movement (ILM), Santa Fe, New Mexico’s New Vistas has had three executive directors. What started as a project led by the local women’s league in the early
Living with DisabilityIt would be difficult to have not noticed the increases in prices over the past year. From gas and travel to pet food, clothing, and home basics, prices have increased in amounts that are not insignif
Living with DisabilityInaccessible design impacts our mobility. Physical barriers can mean fewer doctor’s visits due to inaccessible offices, housing discrimination due to unmet accommodations, and an inability to live ind
Living with DisabilityDepending on your age and your lifestyle, TikTok is either a fun app for discovering new dance moves or a tool that drives people toward dangerous trends. The app has one billion monthly active users,
Living with DisabilityOne of the many complexities within the network of centers for independent living is geography. In states like Texas and California, you can have dozens of center locations. In Rhode Island, that numb
Living with DisabilityThe National Veterans Wheelchair Games started in 1981with just 7 sports and 77 athletes. Today, it is advertised as “the world’s largest wheelchair sports event for military veterans” and hosts over
Living with DisabilityStephanie Woodward is not a woman known for pulling punches. She’s the Executive Director of Disability EmpowerHer Network , a Rochester, New York-based non-profit that supports women and girls with d
Living with DisabilityWe live in a digital world. With assistive tech like the first Braille stopwatch and useful apps that help guide blind and visually impaired people, technology has proven to be a great unifier. But ev
Living with DisabilityEveryone is ready for the pandemic to end. People from all walks of life want nothing more than for COVID cases to drop and for it to be safe to return to society without the risk of catching the viru
Living with DisabilityRailways, buses, subways, and streetcars are linked by a long-regarded benchmark in society called public transportation. Each of these forms of public transportation attempts to function as equalizer
