This approach misses the point, according to cultural anthropologist and Presbyterian minister Erin Raffety. The problem that should be addressed is not the perceived deficiencies of people with ...

Ableism is discrimination and bias against the disabled. After fighting for and winning the battle to have Section 504 regulated in 1977 and the 1990 ADA signed into law, we still experience ableism ...

In recent years, the concepts of ableism and disablism have conflated. We want to consider the theoretical purchase of ableism and explore the ways in which this ideology works with disablism and ...

Are things really a lot better now for disabled people than they were 50 years ago? Or, is ableism just as bad now, or even worse than in the old days? At times it can be a hotly debated question ...

Patients with disabilities often face barriers to health care, including inadequate facilities and biased treatment. A ...

A new project at the Institute for Health and Disability Policy Studies (IHDPS) at the KU Life Span Institute aims to examine how these prejudices, known as medical ableism, affect people with ...

Brown, Nicole and Ramlackhan, Karen 2022. Exploring experiences of ableism in academia: a constructivist inquiry. Higher Education, Vol. 83, Issue. 6, p. 1225. Embedded in personal experiences, this ...

The Supreme Court laying down the nine-point guidelines on the portrayal of disability in films and visual media was a watershed moment for persons with disabilities (PwDs). The judgment was ...

The Christmas version of the series features notable alumni competing on behalf of their former universities An episode of Christmas University Challenge has been pulled after two contestants ...