JSTOR Daily

Invisible intersections: Understanding the complex stigmatisation of women with intellectual disabilities in their vulnerability to gender-based violence

Of the range of disabilities, intellectual disabilities are often the most complex and least understood. The effects of the disability and related negative social attitudes and perceptions combine ...
Kaleido Scope

Strength in Vulnerability

This exhibit explores how internalized ableism is deeply ingrained in the ways we think about the bodies of people with disabilities. This series peels back inclusion, acceptance, and advocacy to ...
JSTOR Daily

Moving Closer: Speakers with Mental Disabilities, Deep Disclosure, and Agency through Vulnerability

This essay examines the rhetoric of an organized group of mentally disabled speakers who share their stories with the public to fight the stigma that adheres to psychiatric diagnoses. Their "deep ...
Penn Live

Pa. residents with intellectual disabilities suffer high vulnerability to COVID-19, loss of day programs

Pennsylvania has 56,000 residents with intellectual or developmental disabilities or autism who depend on state programs, and who are facing unique problems posed by the coronavirus crisis. Many have ...
FTAdviser

PFS’s Eddie Grant to focus on carers and disability advocacy in new role

The government’s new disability and access ambassador for insurance has pledged to work to improve how financial services companies interact with carers and people with disabilities. Eddie Grant, ...
The Vindicator

Understanding developmental disabilities one haircut at a time

Correspondent photo / John Patrick Gatta Beyond Expectations Barber School student Robert McCrae of Youngstown, left, supervises as Erika Mike of Boardman uses an air hose to blow off cut hair from ...