The social model of disability frames disability as something that is created by society, rather than only by medical conditions or physical differences. The model acknowledges that people have ...

Source: Gritchelle Fallesgon / Disabled and Here / Creative Commons Attribution License Coauthored by Jonathan M. Adler, Ph.D., and Kathleen Bogart, Ph.D. The early years of the COVID-19 pandemic were ...

A woman walking past a man in a wheelchair, who is at the base of a staircase. Source: Viacheslav Yakobchuk / Adobe Stock In 1904, H. G. Wells published a short story titled, “The Country of the Blind ...

In the last quarter century, the conceptualization of disability has progressed dramatically. Two World Health Organization (WHO) international classification systems serve as bookends to this period.