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Every Monday, Maurine Gentis, a retired teacher, waits for a delivery from Meals on Wheels South Texas. “The meals help stretch my budget,” Ms. Gentis, 77, said. Living alone and in a wheelchair, she appreciates having someone look in on her regularly. The same group, a nonprofit, delivers books from the library and dry food…
Jordan Moon (left) and Macaulay Beasley (right) use OneCourt tablets at the Phoenix Suns vs. Minnesota Timberwolves game in Phoenix on March 2. Courtesy: Phoenix Suns During a break at the March 2 game between the NBA’s Phoenix Suns and Minnesota Timberwolves, a player made a half-court shot that had the crowd buzzing at PHX…
“Cancer won’t stop me,” she said. “I refuse to give it that credit.” Even though her pro bono cases can be stressful, “because sometimes there’s no good outcome, no matter how hard you try”, the emotional toll does not hold back the lawyer who was called to the Bar in 1987. “I’ll lose sleep over…
President Trump announced Friday that the Education Department would no longer manage the nation’s $1.6 trillion student loan portfolio or supervise “special needs” programs in a major shake-up of an agency he has sought to eliminate. Student loans will move under the Small Business Administration, while special education services, along with nutrition programs, will move…
Flo Fox, an indomitable photographer who was born blind in one eye and later lost her vision in the other from multiple sclerosis, which also eventually paralyzed her from the neck down, but who never stopped shooting what she called the “ironic reality” of New York’s streetscape, died on March 2 in her apartment in…
This article is part of a Women and Leadership special report highlighting women who are charting new pathways and fighting for opportunities for women and others. The first time she encountered discrimination, Isidora Uribe Silva said, she was 12. “Up until that point, having cerebral palsy was never a problem from the perspective of others,…
Tyler Nelson, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Florida, studies the neurobiology of pain, a choice partly motivated by his own frustrations with a neuromuscular disability. Last October, he applied for a grant at the National Institutes of Health that, if awarded, would support his dream of someday running his own lab. But, earlier…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday said the National Medical Commission (NMC) guidelines requiring students with specified disabilities to have “both hands intact” to pursue MBBS course was “completely antithetical” and reeked of “ableism”. A bench of Justices B R Gavai and K V Viswanathan observed the guidelines prescribed “both hands intact, with intact…
Caleb Kasner and his brother Duncan Kasner move around a little differently than average kids. The two brothers have Duchenne muscular dystrophy — a rare, inherited muscle-wasting disorder that has no cure. “Caleb stopped walking in December of ’23, so a little over a year ago. Duncy stopped walking in April of ’24,” their mom,…
In Boonton, N.J., Linda Mauriello helps young people with disabilities prepare to enter the work force after they leave school. They learn to set career goals, create resumes and build relationships at work. Sometimes they get help finding internships and receive support on the job, too. One student with multiple disabilities trained at a school…
