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

The problem that should be addressed is not the perceived deficiencies of people with disabilities; it’s ableism. Raffety believes that churches are steeped in societal prejudices against people with ...

Unlearning ableism is not a passive endeavor but rather an ongoing commitment to action and advocacy. It involves challenging ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...