It’s not black and white, and it shouldn’t be red or blue, either. When I first started my position at the University of Illinois at Chicago back in 1997, I was a faculty member in a newly formed ...

Disability forms part of a man’s condition. At one point or the other, almost everyone will be impaired temporarily or permanently. It is a multiplex, progressive, contested, and a subject that is ...

A woman walking past a man in a wheelchair, who is at the base of a staircase. Source: Viacheslav Yakobchuk / Adobe Stock In 1904, H. G. Wells published a short story titled, “The Country of the Blind ...

As the second in a series of three books examining issues in relation to the social model of disability, this book explores disability theory and research, writes Trish Hafford-Letchfield. The ...

The medical model of disability locates the problem of disability at the person, and it operates in the context of disease, disorders, and impairments. The social model of disability understands ...

Professionals struggling to implement social models of disability should read this book, writes Trish Hafford-Letchfield. Its message is clear: for the social model to work, you have to buy into 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 ...