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Disabilities is an umbrella term, covering impairments, activity limitations, and participation restrictions. An impairment is a problem in body function or structure; an activity limitation is a difficulty encountered by an individual in executing a task or action; while a participation restriction is a problem experienced by an individual in involvement in life situations.

Thus disability is a complex phenomenon, reflecting an interaction between features of a person’s body and features of the society in which he or she lives.

Charter Schools Suspend Black and Disabled Students More, Study Says

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:34:24+00:00 March 17th, 2016|Disability, Education, Intergroup Relations|

Black students are four times as likely to be suspended from charter schoolsas white students, according to a new analysis of federal education data. And students with disabilities, the study found, are suspended two to three times the rate of nondisabled students in charter schools.

Why Disability Rights California is suing Pasadena Unified School District

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:37:17+00:00 February 22nd, 2016|Disability, Education|

A disability rights group has filed a class-action lawsuit against the Pasadena Unified School District alleging the school discriminates against students with behavioral issues by removing them from their local schools.

Read more in the Los Angeles Daily News.

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Fake Cover Letters Expose Discrimination Against Disabled

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:37:25+00:00 November 2nd, 2015|Disability, Employment & Housing|

Employers appear to discriminate against well-qualified job candidates who have a disability, researchers at Rutgers and Syracuse universities have concluded.

The researchers, who sent résumés and cover letters on behalf of fictitious candidates for thousands of accounting jobs, found

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San Francisco Firefighters Become Unintended Safety Net for the Homeless

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:41:24+00:00 August 27th, 2015|Disability, Employment & Housing, Health|

SAN FRANCISCO — When the emergency bell sounds at Fire Station 1 here, firefighters pull on boots and backpacks, swing into Engine 1 and hurtle out the door in almost a single motion, a blast of red lights and caterwauling sirens. More often than not, there is no fire.

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Milestone for Disability Studies

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:41:25+00:00 July 24th, 2015|Disability|

The University of Toledo is starting the nation’s first full undergraduate major in disability studies, an interdisciplinary field that already has considerable scholarly interest and graduate options.

A generation or two ago, students interested in disabilities “had to invent our own programs,” finding faculty members in various disciplines who had an interest in the subject, said

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Parents of grown children with developmental disabilities worry about future

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:41:25+00:00 July 23rd, 2015|Disability|

The doctors told Elizabeth Criss that a child with her daughter’s disorder would only live until she was 8.

She would suffer from seizures, the doctors said. She would likely be unable to communicate and would have problems with her vision.

Almost all of that was true, except Emily Criss is now 29.

“We never expected she would

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L.A. loses discrimination appeal, white gardener may get $4 million

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:41:27+00:00 July 1st, 2015|Disability, Employment & Housing, Intergroup Relations|

The city of Los Angeles may have to pay a former park groundskeeper more than $4 million after a state appeal court last week affirmed a verdict for racial and disability discrimination.

James Duffy, a mentally disabled white gardener, sued after his Latino supervisor harassed him, assigned him to inferior jobs and told him, “I hate

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Minorities Less Likely To Be Identified as Disabled

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:41:27+00:00 June 30th, 2015|Disability, Education|

Racial and language minority students in elementary and middle school are less likely than their White, English-speaking peers to be identified as having learning disabilities, according to a new national study.

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Court-appointed attorneys violated Disabilities Act, federal complaint says

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:41:27+00:00 June 29th, 2015|Disability|

disability-rights group has filed a federal complaint alleging that the Los Angeles County Superior Court has systemically violated the civil rights of intellectually disabled residents who are under limited conservatorships by failing to provide effective legal assistance through its court-appointed attorneys.

Developmentally disabled to lose programs if California budget remains stagnant

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:43:21+00:00 June 10th, 2015|Disability|

The workshop where Destry Walker has been employed for 20 years swells with the sound of trainees who assemble boxes, operate blister machines that seal Res-Q-Me keychains in plastic and pack loose can dies into small bags.

For Walker, the workshop is where he has learned to become a leader and an advocate, where he earns

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