A design engineering student's final year project aims to help developing countries make their own disability aids using modular components. The modular kit of interchangeable mobility aid parts from ...

In her house in Ypsilanti, Michigan, Barbara Meade said, “there are walkers and wheelchairs and oxygen and cannulas all over the place.” Barbara, 82, has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, so a ...

It’s estimated that about 10% of the world’s population, 650 million people, have a disability. Even though many believe that persons with disabilities are not sexually active, many engage in ...

Last month, Facebook announcement that it’s testing speech-to-text functionality for its Messenger app. Some reporters are simply asking why it’s taken this long. Disability aids have historically ...

Finding stylish mobility aids amid a sea of dull, colourless options which match the aesthetic of a hospital ward is the bane of many fashion-forward disabled people’s wardrobes. In the UK the ...

DEDHAM - A Dedham woman is trying to take the stigma out of disability aids. Noelle Connolly has been living with multiple sclerosis symptoms since she was 17 and was officially diagnosed at 23. "I ...

Minnesota's waiting list for this form of aid, relative to its population, is now among the largest in the nation. And yet tens of millions of dollars intended for these families is going unspent in ...

In this op-ed, Amy Kenny highlights the inaccessibility of travel, and the harm disabled people face when their mobility aids are damaged by airlines. My heart pounds in my ears as I wave goodbye to ...