Child support past 18 is usually seen in cases where the child has special needs or is disabled. Apart from cases where obvious or profound disabilities can be seen to exist, the issue of a child's ...

There seems to be a wide gap between how we talk about “The Disability Community,” and the number of disabled people who actually feel like a part of it. Most disabled people want to connect with a ...

Beneath the bureaucracy that makes the NDIS harder to access lurks a long-established discourse of “deservingness” — the ...

For Sandy Schimelpfenig, it's the day-to-day activities like grocery shopping and balancing a checkbook that cause her the most anxiety. Schimelpfenig, who has a developmental disability and other ...

My intention in writing these posts is to share the experiences that I went through with my son, starting with the first manifestation of his illness and our journey through numerous subsequent ...

At my first introductory union meeting, after sitting through a PowerPoint presentation, I piped up with a question: “What about disabled workers?” Leadership went quiet. “You should talk to the ...

“I don’t have to be cured to be happy. I don’t have to conform to the physical notion of perfection (whatever that is) to be a whole person.” — Disabled commenter at eparent.com. “Many disabled people ...