disability

Locked-In Syndrome and the Horror of Being Trapped in Your Own Body

11.17.15

By Paul Willis
I Went to Costa Rica to Watch Two Kids Hear for the First Time

11.16.15

By Chris Nieratko
A Canadian with an Intellectual Disability Is Fighting His 46-Cents-an-Hour Wage

11.05.15

By Colin Graf
Music

All Access: How Accessibility Limits Dance Music’s Inclusiveness

10.27.15

By THUMP Canada Staff
Food

Applebee’s Is Apologizing for Not Paying an Autistic Employee for a Year

10.24.15

By Alex Swerdloff
Games

Meet the Charity That’s Helping the Disabled Get Into Video Gaming

10.22.15

By Jonathan Beach
Games

The Charity Helping the Disabled Get into Video Gaming

10.22.15

By Jonathan Beach
Pulse

The UN Is Investigating the UK Over Its Treatment of People With Disabilities

10.16.15

By Sally Hayden
Identity

Why Disabled Figure Skaters Are Fighting for the Right to Fall

10.13.15

By Nell Frizzell
Health

An Outsourcing Company Director Wants the British Welfare State to Be More Like ‘The Sims’

10.12.15

By Solomon Hughes
A Woman Claims She Blinded Herself with Drain Cleaner Because She Wanted to Be Disabled

10.02.15

By Arielle Pardes
Tech

Why Some Parents Choose to Have a Deaf Baby

09.29.15

By Rich Wordsworth

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