Purple Fest was a moment to celebrate how far disability rights have come—but it also illuminated the path ahead for queer ...

Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol. 21, No. 2 (2004), pp. 141-157 (17 pages) Emerging from the political activism of disabled people's movements and mainly theorised by the scholar Michael Oliver, the ...

All communities and social movements change. If they don’t, they stagnate, lose relevance, and die. The process of change is almost always uncomfortable, sometimes painful, but usually valuable in the ...

Ways of thinking about disability differ across cultures and can be classified into three general models: the moral model, the medical model, and the social model (Olkin & Pledger, 2003). Under the ...

Mills lives with epilepsy, and her service dog Arrow is trained to assist when she experiences a seizure. But years of experiencing first-hand misperceptions of service animals has led her to conduct ...

As Penn’s home for academic support and disability services, the Weingarten Center works with students in all 12 schools. Students seek assistance in strengthening their study strategies to undertake ...