According to interviews with disabled individuals, ableism causes and exacerbates the disparities in mental health care. Mental health care is a sector that Wang believes especially typifies ...

Feelings of underemployment and acts of ableism – attitudes and actions that devalue and limit the potential and inclusion of persons with disabilities – in their current workplace (60%) are their ...

A new project at the Institute for Health and Disability Policy Studies (IHDPS) at the KU Life Span Institute aims to examine how these prejudices, known as medical ableism, affect people with ...

Ableism is a term that refers to the practices or ideas that discriminate against those who have disabilities. It suggests that society puts higher value on people with typical abilities.

Ableism is discrimination or prejudice against individuals with disabilities, where they are valued as less than others and rendering them invisible. Whether conscious or unconscious, ableism ...

Pop icon Madonna is in hot water for a recent comment about a fan in a wheelchair at one of her concerts, igniting debate on ableism and accessibility. During a March 9 stop on her Celebration ...

Over the past three decades, we have researched, taught classes and given talks on disability and ableism. 1. Listen to feedback even if you would rather not. Giving people feedback on ableism isn ...

As the broader health care field strives to identify and address health care disparities, a commentary published in The Lancet Oncology underscored the importance of eliminating ableism from ...

Over the past three decades, we have researched, taught classes and given talks on disability and ableism. Throughout the course of our careers and lived experiences, we have seen the daily ...

The ESRI investigated different forms of "ableism", which is the conscious or subconscious belief that socio-typical abilities are superior. It found that negative stereotypes of some disabilities ...

The institute conducted a study that investigated different forms of ableism, or the stigma and discrimination that can be faced by people with disabilities. In the survey, which was funded by the ...