Employers need to tread carefully when deciding to dismiss a disabled employee whose disability-related absences have triggered the organisation’s attendance policy. In Griffiths v Secretary of State ...

A recent report finds that people with intellectual and developmental disabilities across Pa. continue to encounter ...

Maybe it’s the sign of the times, but I’ve been getting a lot of emails recently from senior citizens asking if they can get Social Security disability benefits. The answer depends on a variety of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andrew Pulrang writes about disability practices, policy, and culture. Disability activism is empowering. For some disabled people ...

Only four per cent of organizations explicitly consider disability in their inclusion initiatives and over 50 per cent of global boards and executives report never discussing it. Many organizations ...

Language (and the questions it forces people to ask and consider) plays an essential role in inclusion and can increase visibility and empathy for groups that have historically been marginalized or ...

Under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), a Service Animal is defined as... "...any dog that is individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the ...

On January 25, 2013, the Office of Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education (OCR) issued a “Dear Colleague Letter” instructing school districts on their responsibilities to serve students with ...

The Court of Justice of the European Union recently ruled that obesity can be a work disability under EU law. In the U.S. the Americans for Disability Act has long protected workers with disabilities ...

The GAO says fraudulent disability claims are costing big bucks. Aug. 4, 2010 -- Around 1,500 federal employees may have improperly received Social Security benefits, according to a new report from a ...