Disabled World News
Disability Community News and Information
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Social Security Adds 14 Compassionate Allowances
Social Security added 14 conditions to its Compassionate Allowances list, expanding to 314 conditions that speed disability benefit approvals for severe illness -
Public Transit Barriers Limit NYC Disability Employment
How inaccessible buses, subways, and rail in New York City raise commute times and lower employment rates for working-age people with disabilities -
Effective Altruism and Disability: A Critical Guide
An authoritative guide to effective altruism, its cost-effectiveness methods, and the sharp debates it has provoked among disability rights scholars -
UK TV Disability Hiring Target May Not Be Met Until 2028
Independent Creative Diversity Network review finds UK television off-screen disability representation rose just 0.9%, delaying the Doubling Disability target -
Cat Training Helps Kids With Disabilities and Cats
A cat training program improved behavior, responsibility and bonds for children with developmental disabilities while making their family cats more social -
Unseen: Voices of Visually Impaired South Africans
A book by Joanne Bloch sharing her own sight loss story and interviews with 20 visually impaired South Africans on adaptation, barriers, and daily life -
MTA Settlement Improves NY Subway Elevator Outage Access
Disability advocates reach a class action settlement with the MTA requiring better signage, announcements, and alerts for New York subway elevator outages -
Loneliness as a Public Health Crisis and Companionship
The WHO links loneliness to about 871,000 deaths a year, with teens most affected - a look at companionship as low-cost prevention