JURIST Guest Columnist Michael Waterstone of Loyola Law School Los Angeles says that recent prejudiced comments about autistic and other disabled persons by American talk radio host Michael Savage ...

In Lat v. Farmers New World Life Ins. Co. (No. B282008, filed 10/16/18), a California appeals court held that the notice-prejudice rule precluded a denial of life insurance benefits based on the ...

You pick your child up at school and see her hanging out with a child with autism. Your reaction is: A) pride, B) confusion, C) concern, D) pity. If you said yes to any of the above you could have ...

What’s the point of working against disability prejudice — also known as ableism? Sometimes it seems like the fight against ableism boils down to little more than making sure not to offend disabled ...

Professionals in the fields of education and rehabilitation psychology have long used disability simulations to try to promote understanding and improve attitudes about persons with disabilities. To ...

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 10, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Unlike in television, where disability representation has gone up in recent years, the percentage of characters with disabilities in the top 1,200 films has ...

Arlene Kanter is a professor of law and the Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence at Syracuse University, where she is also the Director of the College of Law’s Disability ...

October has marked Disability Employment Awareness month with an array of events highlighting concerns of the disability community. Even with these observances, one issue getting neglected is the ...