Former model Sheri Melander-Smith on how “Disabilities don’t have to end your career”

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Mobility International USA (MIUSA) is currently recruiting for our Summer 2008 US/Costa Rica: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Disability Rights Leadership Exchange […]

United Nations Adopts Treaty on the Rights of People with Disabilities
In December 2006, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted a treaty on the rights of persons with disabilities. The treaty’s provisions detail the rights of persons with disabilities covering civil and political rights, accessibility, participation and inclusion, education, health, employment and social protections. […]

Jonathan Wolpaw, MD, surveyed the state of brain-computer interfaces
in his keynote address to the American Paraplegia Society.

Spinal cord health care professionals make this year’s conference in Las Vegas one to remember, setting the bar high for next year’s meetings in Orlando.

By Rob Ingraham and Chris Pierson

“I never thought I would wax sentimental about the […]

Love, Work, & Play—A More In-Depth Exploration
By Trevor A. Dyson-Hudson, MD

United Spinal Association and the Northern New Jersey Spinal Cord Injury System (NNJSCIS) are teaming up once again to present a consumeroriented education conference for persons with spinal cord injury and disease (SCI/D), their families and friends, and interested professionals. This year’s conference is entitled, […]

The theme of this month’s Action––education––coincides with one of our major programmatic endeavors: the annual conference of our three professional associations dedicated to spinal cord injury. Through these conferences we hope to ensure that physicians, nurses, psychologists, social workers (and this year, physical and occupational therapists, as well), are upto- date on innovative treatment modalities […]

Alex Pitts was born quadriplegic, his twin brother Ryan was not. This month they will be entering kindergarten together. Like most twins, they have many similarities, but their levels of ability and needs are very different. How will this affect their experience at school?

By Rob Ingraham

Six years ago, Melissa Pitts gave birth to twin […]

United Spinal played a pivotal role in improving the education of physicians in the field of spinal cord injury medicine.
By Terry Moakley
Much of what United Spinal does is education. Our Web site, publications, and brochures are all developed to give you the information needed to make it through another day successfully, and […]

For a puppet troupe dedicated to sensitizing school children (and adults) to people with disabilities, the medium is the message.
By Lori A. Wood
The oldest Kid on the Block was inspired by one of special education teacher Barbara Aiello’s students, Anthony, a wheelchair-user with cerebral palsy.
“At the time, Anthony was being integrated […]

Camp Courage, in the wilds of Minnesota, is a place for every ability to learn and have fun.
By Tiffiny Carlson
Garrison Keillor had it right when he said Minnesota was a land unto itself. With its 10,000 lakes and abundance of untouched forests, it’s the kind of place where a storyteller can close his […]

An anthropologist explains what disability studies is—and why he thinks it could be so much more.
By William J. Peace
Disability studies is among the hippest and newest fields in American academia. As a college student would say, disability is cool, worthy of intense academic debate and serious scholarship. In the last decade, disability studies […]

A cross between a classroom and an employment agency, Lift, Inc. trains and helps place people with disabilities in the information technology field.
By Carrie Smoot
Tabitha Estrellado graduated in May 2006 from Pace University with a B.S. in computer science and a 4.0 average. When she’s not thinking about computers or on the job as […]

By Tamar Asedo Sherman
Everyone can do something productive. Even if you have limited mobility following an accident or illness, there are still many jobs you can perform. Maybe you can no longer do the work you did before, but you can rejoin the work force doing something else. Going back to school might jumpstart that […]