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.

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 ...

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 ...

PARIS ⁠— As 2021 drew to a close, and the traditional year-end roundups and top 10s started appearing online, Aaron Rose Philip had a question for the Twitterverse: “How is the 1st disabled model to ...

The rise of models with disabilities has revolutionized the fashion industry. Not too long ago, the aforementioned group lacked representation on the media, despite the fact that one in five people in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andrew Pulrang writes about disability practices, policy, and culture. In March 2023, conservative commentator Candace Owens did a ...

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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 ...

Aspiring model Debbie van der Putten loves her body, and she isn’t afraid to show it off. The 22-year old from Helmond in the Netherlands has appeared on posters throughout Europe for charity groups, ...

Machine learning models can reliably inform clinicians about the disability progression of multiple sclerosis, according to a new study published this week in the open-access journal PLOS Digital ...