Words have power. This is also true of the words we use around disability. If you scroll through news articles about people with disabilities, you may see words or phrases like “stricken with multiple ...

I wanted to express my gratitude to The Chronicle for raising awareness of the needs of autistic college students in the article “Learning the ‘Unspoken Rules’” (January 31). As an autistic adult who ...

Disability can be difficult to talk about sensitively because of how embedded ableism is in our language, biases and perceptions of disability. Conversations about disability are slowly increasing, ...

The editorial headline “Tone-deaf Sawant’s criticism of SPD is just too much” [Oct. 27, Opinion] used ableist language. Ableism is discrimination or prejudice against people with disabilities. It ...

Lots of people thought Presidential candidate Donald Trump had “crossed a line” by mocking disabled New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski. But the indignant outrage on both anti-Trump Democrat and ...

JOE SHAPIRO, INVESTIGATIONS, NPR: My name is Joe Shapiro. I'm a correspondent at NPR. I work on the Investigations unit, but I've had a long interest in disability issues. I've been writing about this ...

Dr. Godin is a writer, performer and educator and the author of “There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness.” On a recent visit to my hometown, San Francisco, I met up with two ...

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