After several years of stable prices, the cost of disability insurance is going up. Insurers don`t expect to raise prices across the board. Instead, they`re watching where the new claims are coming ...

Nancy Baker Curtis demonstrates using an adult-size changing table with son Charlie at a rest stop near Adair, Iowa. The table is motorized so it can be lowered when a person needs to get on, then ...

Community Services Minister Jenny Macklin told the conference yesterday the disability impairment tables to determine eligibility for the Disability Support Pension were riddled with inconsistencies ...

You wake up early every day. You put in a solid day’s work at the office. You come home and stare at the rent that is due next week and the empty pantry in the kitchen. With an extremely limited ...

Kim Boulter has used bathroom floors, angled the back of her van away from onlookers in various parking lots and cleared off conference room tables in order to change her 9-year-old son. Aiden has ...

In a Manhattan courtroom last month, a jury awarded $50.5 million to a worker left paralyzed after he fell 15 feet from scaffolding in 2007. But even more intriguing for legal observers than the super ...

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FOXBORO — The Common was made a little more comfortable this summer, as the recreation department partnered with the Commission on Disability to purchase two accessible picnic tables. While the ...

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Ryan O’Connell spent several years cultivating his voice as part of a wave of bloggers writing highly confessional personal essays (“An Open Letter To My Only One-Night Stand” ...

People with mental illness and disability — or as politically correct speech has it, the intellectually challenged — suffer an enormous amount of discrimination and ­isolation. Broader society treats ...

The table was recently installed as part of a national effort to make public bathrooms more accessible in places like airports, parks, arenas and gas stations. Without such options, people with ...