Airlines keep losing and damaging wheelchairs at an alarming rate

U.S. airlines are losing and damaging wheelchairs at an alarming rate.

Disabled Japanese Are Often Invisible. Will Paralympics Bring Lasting Light?

Tokyo improved its infrastructure before the Games, but activists wonder how long the focus will continue in a country with a long history of excluding people with disabilities.

For These Paralympians, a Pursuit of Excellence Means Life Abroad

The United States may be the birthplace of basketball, but to make a career out of playing wheelchair hoops, athletes have had to move overseas.

Overlooked No More: Randy Snow, Paralympic Champion of Wheelchair Tennis

He won gold medals in singles and doubles at the 1992 Games in Barcelona and was the first Paralympic athlete to be inducted into the Olympic Hall of Fame.

Accessibility Is a Right. This Restaurant Treats It That Way.

Contento, in East Harlem, sets an example for an industry that is rarely welcoming to diners with disabilities.

Michael J. Fox Reviews a Thoughtful Memoir on the Challenges of Living With Disability

In “I Live a Life Like Yours,” Jan Grue, a Norwegian professor, writes of living with a rare form of spinal muscular atrophy.