Is neurodivergence a disability? The question itself is the problem. We're forcing rigid categories onto a dynamic reality, ...

Ways of thinking about disability differ across cultures and can be classified into three general models: the moral model, the medical model, and the social model (Olkin & Pledger, 2003). Under the ...

Disability forms part of a man’s condition. At one point or the other, almost everyone will be impaired temporarily or permanently. It is a multiplex, progressive, contested, and a subject that is ...

We live in a world shaped by the stories we tell — about ourselves, about others, and about what it means to live a good life. But when society tells only one story about disability — that it is a ...

Oft quoted statistics are that 20% of the world’s population are disabled and that 15-20% of the world’s population are neurodivergent. These numbers don’t stack up. There is of course, overlap. The ...

Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol. 21, No. 2 (2004), pp. 141-157 (17 pages) Emerging from the political activism of disabled people's movements and mainly theorised by the scholar Michael Oliver, the ...

What do you think of when you think of disability? Someone in a wheelchair? Someone who is blind and has a cane? Whatever they look like, their impairment means life can be harder for them. The fact ...

The policy would have fundamentally altered who qualifies for the two federal disability programs by eliminating or limiting ...