New homes built in many parts of Australia will soon need to meet stricter accessibility and energy efficiency requirements, a move that builders say will make construction prices soar.
The Department of Education is sending letters to 387,000 individuals who are eligible for a “total and permanent” discharge from their student loan debt due to having a disability and being unable to work...
Last year, Google.org announced their Google Impact Challenge: Disabilities competition, and over 1,000 nonprofits from 88 countries submitted designs for open source technology that could improve the lives of disabled people...
An innovative prosthetic arm that allows children to incorporate their own personalized Lego attachments took home the Grand Prix award at Paris’s Netexplo digital technology summit...
The world is not always as you see it. Building, bodies, and streets become an unrecognizable wall that encapsulate you. The works aims to address a topic that is never discussed, the view of the world from a wheelchair....
The one billion plus people around the world who live with a disability, physical or developmental, face enormous challenges that too often are ignored by the able-bodied majority...
Sweetwater Spectrum is a new housing development designed expressly for autistic adults as a safe home that can offer them a purpose and develop more independence...
Sweetwater Spectrum is a new housing development designed expressly for autistic adults as a safe home that can offer them a purpose and develop more independence...
Ironman kicks ass. And not just because that’s Robert Downey Jr. inside. The idea of an impermeable exoskeleton has fascinated humans since medieval knights designed the first metal armor. Now, NASA is working on a...
For many of us, dressing ourselves in clothes that look good and fit our bodies comfortably is something we take for granted. For those dealing with severe arthritis, amputations, multiple sclerosis and other physical disabilities,...
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