Tag: Americans with Disabilities Act

The American With Disabilities Act Mediation Program hasn’t issued a quarterly report since 2011. Could better leadership heighten its impact? ...

When a town barred Beth Hudson, a below-knee amputee, from riding her e-bike, Hudson felt they were violating the ADA. ...

In "Against Technoableism," amputee author Ashley Shew draws a sharp line between technology that herds disabled bodies toward nondisabled standards, ...

When Universal rudely turned a 12-year-old amputee away from its most popular ride, it was too much for the brave ...

According to a recent paper in the journal Health Affairs, many physicians—by their own admission—routinely discriminate against people with disabilities.

It wasn’t easy, but Congress finally passed the much-debated bipartisan infrastructure bill last week. As we noted two months ago, ...

Growing up, congenital amputee Nicole Kelly was taught that "disability" was a bad thing. Today, the former Miss Iowa is ...

In 2004, when US Army Captain Tammy Duckworth, now a senator from Illinois, woke up at Walter Reed Army Medical ...

By Elan Young Losing one or more limbs can send a person reeling. Along with learning how to manage pain, ...

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law on July 26, 1990. The ADA prohibits discrimination on the ...