Understanding Disabilities

Color blindness affects approximately 1 in 22 people globally. Experience the world as they do, right from your browser.

Stella Young is a comedian and journalist who happens to go about her day in a wheelchair — a fact that doesn't, she'd like to make clear, automatically turn her into a noble inspiration to all humanity. In this very funny talk, Young breaks down society's habit of turning disabled people into "inspiration porn."

RA is an auto-immune disease and quite different from osteoarthritis, the ‘wear-and-tear’ form of arthritis which many people get to some degree, particularly as they get older. People with RA

There are 920,000 people with dementia in the UK, and this is projected to rise to over 1 million by 2025. Dementia is not a single disease, but an umbrella term used to describe a range of

Each year in the UK, over 100,000 people have a stroke. A stroke is a brain attack. It happens when the blood supply to part of your brain is cut off. Blood carries essential nutrients and oxygen to

Disability Awareness Game THE AIMS OF THE GAME The CapAble Disability Awareness Game aims at creating awareness on the barriers that students with disabilities face during different stages of their university experience and enables the player to empathize, but also reflect on solutions to the barriers and their roles in creating an enabling environment for […]

Blind gamer Ben Breen wants more studios to consider people like him when developing computer games.

Find disability and health information for specific groups.

The U.S. Access Board is a federal agency that promotes equality for people with disabilities through leadership in accessible design and the development of accessibility guidelines and standards for the built environment, transportation, communication, medical diagnostic equipment, and information technology.

Promote the health and wellness of people with disabilities.

National epilepsy statistics for the United States, including prevalence of active epilepsy in adults and children.

WHO fact sheet on epilepsy, a chronic noncommunicable disorder of the brain that affects people of all ages. The fact sheet includes key facts, signs and symptoms, causes, treatment, prevention,social and economic impacts, human rights and WHO response.

When does vision loss become blindness? Writer, audio producer and editor Andrew Leland explains how his gradual loss of vision revealed a paradoxical truth ...

Being around people who are different from us makes us more creative, more diligent and harder-working

Glossary published by the Translation Bureau, which presents English and French equivalents to 342 concepts on accessibility of persons with disabilities.

DREDF is dedicated to improving the lives of people with disabilities through legal advocacy, training, education, and public policy and legislative development.

Articles and opinion pieces written by professionals and autistic people who share their knowledge, good practice, research and advice for anyone working with autistic people.