Disability Archives

09.10.2024 older businessman looking out glass wall of office

Preventing Age Discrimination Against Older Workers

As the population ages, we will increasingly rely on older workers. But how can we ensure they can still do their jobs without discriminating against them?

Guest Author Paul S. Appelbaum

05.22.2024

Unlocking Understanding: Sex Ed for Young Adults with Intellectual Disabilities

Young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities receive less sexual education than their neurotypical peers. Many believe parents should play a bigger role in filling in the education gaps.

Fellow Dani Weissert

05.02.2024

Confronting the Challenges of Breastfeeding with a Disability

Mothers with disabilities were less likely to receive information about breastfeeding from their providers and were less likely to breastfeed their infants in the first few months postpartum than mothers without disabilities.

Fellow Dani Weissert

12.04.2023 Linegraph depicting probability of reporting at least one disability among U.S. adults, stratified by age and gender

Disability Among Transgender Adults

Transgender adults are more likely to report a disability than their cisgender counterparts, likely as a result of chronic stress.

Fellow Kara Schmidt

09.15.2023 line graph depicting trends in medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) use over time

Access and Accessibility in Opioid Treatment

Opioid use disorder treatment has steadily increased among American adults, but treatment use remains consistently lower for those adults with disabilities.

Fellow Adna Jaganjac

09.08.2023 Alice Wong headshot

Health Equity
Disability

Alice Wong

Alice Wong is an activist, writer, and author. She discusses her recent book, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, what it means to be an activist, and the importance of diverse perspectives in storytelling.

Fellow Sean Hagan

04.03.2023 a graph of a disability status

Locking Up Disabilities

U.S. prisons incarcerate roughly 1.2 million people, and almost two-thirds of the prison population report living with a disability.

Fellow Hannah Tremont

12.08.2022 Reyma McCoy Hyten

Reyma McCoy Hyten

Reyma McCoy Hyten has a two-decade career in the service and support of people with disabilities. She became the first Black woman to serve as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Commissioner for the Administration on Disabilities. Currently, she works privately, devoting her full attention and time to identifying and confronting the root causes of oppression, and how systems create marginalization.

Fellow Connor McCombs

08.25.2022 a graph of different colored bars

Disability Disclosure

A study examined the consequences of disclosing a disability during a job interview.

Fellow Abby Outterson

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