HOUSTON – Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner joins Texas Governor Abbott and officials from other states to proclaim April 23 – 29 as “Disability Book Week,” highlighting authors worldwide with ...

Tales about a girl with autism and a boy who’s nonverbal are among the books being honored for portraying the disability experience as part of a prestigious award given alongside the famed Newbery and ...

“True Biz” follows a headmaster and her students at the River Valley School for the Deaf through first love, loss and injustice. The split perspectives tackle three main characters and several side ...

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When Mimi Matthews’s bone fusion for a previous neck injury snapped more than a decade ago, it reshaped her world. Her planned career in law? Out of reach. Her passion for riding horses? Out of the ...

Every July, millions of Americans celebrate Disability Pride Month, which honors the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)-the landmark legislation signed into law in 1990 that made it ...

New children’s books about kids with autism, visual impairment and other disabilities are being recognized alongside top honors like the Newbery and Caldecott Medals. Three winners and five honorees ...

Where are the children with disabilities? It's not kids' picture books, according to new research from Edith Cowan University's (ECU) School of Education. An ECU research study published in Practical ...

July is Disability Pride Month, but, like with queer pride, disability history and experiences are not something taught in schools or represented in the media. In fact, studies have shown that while ...

In her new book “Popcorn Disabilities: The Highs and Lows of Disabled Representation in the Movies,” film critic and author Kristen Lopez says she wasn’t interested in writing “an academic book or one ...