Author’s mother has a disorder that slowly deteriorates vision — but she says a disability is not a death sentence ...

Disabled scientists are trying to make research labs and fieldwork more accessible. They say labs and field sites aren’t ...

Jane Long has always been a teacher at heart and nearly 20 years after she retired from teaching kindergarten for 13 years in ...

Today, the vast majority of students with disabilities no longer attend specialized schools like Perkins. Instead, they enroll in public schools. Blind and low vision students who attend public ...

The workers who care for people with disabilities are underpaid, overwhelmed, and increasingly leaving the field. Advocates ...

A vision disability refers to a range of impairments affecting one’s ability to see, process, or interpret visual information. Vision disabilities can vary from mild vision loss to total blindness and ...

Phone apps for people with low vision can also be a big help, Mortazavi says. These include magnification apps like ...

But the low pay eventually wore her down, and she switched careers after four years. Ed’s job is advocating for disability rights—which, he says, entails offering training to DSPs and ...

Scientists with disabilities say that’s in part because ... a biomaterials engineer at the University of Texas at Arlington who has low vision, prints out signage using high-contrast color ...