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 ...

All communities and social movements change. If they don’t, they stagnate, lose relevance, and die. The process of change is almost always uncomfortable, sometimes painful, but usually valuable in the ...

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 ...

Symbolic Interaction, Vol. 43, No. 1, Special Issue: Power, Stigma, Transgression, and Exclusion in Everyday Life (FEBRUARY 2020), pp. 21-45 (25 pages) Neoliberal perspectives, policies, and practices ...

Guest Columnist and Executive Director of the Weingarten Center Jane Holahan weighs in on the discussion of disability accommodations. Credit: Caroline Gibson As Penn’s home for academic support and ...

Mills lives with epilepsy, and her service dog Arrow is trained to assist when she experiences a seizure. But years of experiencing first-hand misperceptions of service animals has led her to conduct ...

Gemma L. Williams has previously received funding from the ESRC (UKRI). She is affiliated with the National Development Team for Inclusion and the Westminster Commission on Autism. We wish to thank Dr ...