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 ...

Disability goes beyond health care, yet the two are fundamentally interwoven: many people with disability have at least some ...

It’s not black and white, and it shouldn’t be red or blue, either. When I first started my position at the University of Illinois at Chicago back in 1997, I was a faculty member in a newly formed ...

Someone who is blind and has a cane? Whatever they look like, their impairment means life can be harder for them. The fact they don't have use of their legs or eyesight is the reason they might ...

Skokie native Lily Brasch recalls flipping through the pages of People Magazine, admiring the fashion and beauty filling its pages. However, the lack of disabled models made Brasch feel isolated from ...

More than $200 million is being made available in a broad push to establish innovative approaches to transition young people with disabilities into competitive integrated employment. The U.S.

Zebedee Management is a talent agency for actors, models, and influencers with disabilities. The unique agency has helped bring those with physical and learning difficulties into the public eye. One ...

One in four adults in the U.S. and one in five adults in Canada are living with a disability, but you wouldn't know it given the lack of representation in the workforce, Hollywood, and media coverage.

Before Laura Johnson and Zoe Proctor created Zebedee Management, they noticed a few things: How little they ever saw people with disabilities in fashion ad campaigns and the media. And then when they ...

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 ...