The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a piece of civil rights legislation designed to protect the rights of people with disabilities. It was passed into law in 1991 and guarantees equal rights ...

Ten years ago, Congress passed the ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA). The law was intended to address what legislators believed was courts’ overly strict reading of the definition of disability under the ...

Colorado finally has some good news for people diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder. On Aug. 1, the state of Colorado adopted a new rule for defining developmental disability. Historically, the ...

The psychiatry profession’s newly revised reference manual on mental disorders changes the definition and classification for many disabilities commonly seen in schools, but those changes—at times ...

As part of our continuing series on the rapid rise in the number of people receiving federal disability payments, we explore the world of disability lawyers. It's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News.

I often begin one of my class lectures by introducing the definition of “disability.” The dictionary defines disability “as a physical, mental, cognitive, or developmental condition that impairs, ...

A federal court in New York recently construed the meaning of a total disability definition where the insurance policy language includes residual disability coverage. The January 3, 2020 decision came ...

Radical technologies around the world may soon overhaul the field of disability and immobility, which affects in some way more than a billion people around the world. MIT bionics designer Hugh Herr, ...

“Chronic conditions” and “disability” are not just words. They can determine the funding and supports we can access, how we’re treated and how we feel about ourselves. Although definitions serve an ...