What is a service animal? The landmark A...  ...perform tasks for the benefit of a person with a disability " — but here was the rub: T...

Mastering a musical instrument is a challenge to b...  ...nd family, you’d better have some darn good disability

Kyle Munkittrick encountered a story of a family w...  ...I can almost guarantee that the “is shortness a disability ” example will be somewhere among the pages. Sho...  ...the moment) sits right in the blurry space among disability , disease, and normal. How short is “too short?�...  ...rter than Yao Ming...

Nicholas Maxim was born without hands or forearms, but the fifth grader can write -and well, too. Nicholas has won a special award in Zaner-Bloser's 20th annual National Handwriting Contest. "We submitted his entry beca...

Instructables member Shawn Melito designed and built a special "water scooter" for his then-5-year-old daughter, who has Cerebral Palsy. This gave her buoyancy, mobility, and independence on the water -under supervision,...

If you think that all you need to pitch a baseball are an arm and a ball, you'd be half-right. As Tom Willis proved, you actually don't need any arm:He's Tom Willis, and he's a San Diego-based motivational speaker who ha...

The photo above comes from the Spaarnestad collection in the Nationaal Archief - the National Archive of the Netherlands.  The image is sourced to Great Britain and dated 1935, but carries no explanatory text other than...

Sheila Radziewicz of Massachusetts was born withou...  ...of domestic violence, said she has never let her disability stop her. At 23, Radziewicz earned her driver's l...

If you're on a long-term disability because of depression, perhaps it's a good idea n...

Still in the concept stage, the Watergate is an alternative to the turnstile. If you're disabled, getting through a turnstile can be a challenge. That's why designers Michael Tatschl, Sascha Mikel and Martin Schnab...