As I write this, bolts of electric pain shimmer down my right leg and up toward my shoulder as my joints throb in time with my heart. Every time I stand, my vision kaleidoscopes to black and back ...

Invisible disabilities don’t come with obvious signs and are often met with skepticism. This disbelief can sometimes be more ...

Living with a less immediately visible or less widely understood disability can often be lonely, in part because our friends and family members don’t always know what our experience of the world is ...

When we use the term “disability,” many people think about the obvious, including mobility impairments and common sensory disabilities, such as blindness. However, disabilities also include a number ...

LSA junior Claire Abraham has been in a wheelchair since she was four. At 18 months, Abraham was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy — a neuromuscular disease that essentially breaks down her motor ...

My wheelchair hides my worst disability. Most people probably think that having spinal muscular atrophy — a neuromuscular weakness I’ve had since birth — is the nastiest thing that ever happened to me ...

(WJAR) — Sitting at a picnic table at Briar Point Beach, seven-year-old Charlotte quietly draws one of her favorite things: fairies. “She’s a great kid,” her mother, Crystal Langlais, said. “She’s a ...

Most people associate disability with someone in a wheelchair, with a guide dog or using a hearing aid, but many disabilities are invisible. In the UK alone, 1 in 5 people has a disability, with 80% ...