What do you think of when you think of disability? Someone in a wheelchair? Someone who is blind and has a cane? Whatever they look like, their impairment means life can be harder for them. The fact ...

The medical model of disability locates the problem of disability at the person, and it operates in the context of disease, disorders, and impairments. The social model of disability understands ...

A woman walking past a man in a wheelchair, who is at the base of a staircase. Source: Viacheslav Yakobchuk / Adobe Stock In 1904, H. G. Wells published a short story titled, “The Country of the Blind ...

Mobility is the ability to move. A disability is the result of an impairment that affects a person’s ability to carry out tasks. For example, a person may find it difficult to walk very far due to ...

The issue of disability has been of much interest to a great number of researchers and has been tackled from several angles. These include how people with disability think of themselves (e.g., Stamou ...