Ableism is discrimination and bias against the disabled ... not having seating for those in wheelchairs and scooters in locations where they can equally experience the event, and not considering the ...

I have used a wheelchair on and off since I was 13, but I have been a full-time user for the last eight years. I have always experienced ableism – from micro-aggressions such as shop assistants ...

I would argue that unlike the concept of ‘wheelchair acceptance’ (Barker et.al., 2004) pushed by Rehabilitation Sciences, there are additional societal elements of ableism and stigmatisation that ...

and pushing a wheelchair instead of sitting in it could be due to a variety of reasons, such as: Ableism often arises from assumptions about what disability “looks like.” Seeing someone ...

Raffety gleans examples from her fieldwork to demonstrate how ableism operates in churches today ... pastoral leadership—like the “elbows out” approach of a person in a wheelchair traveling through a ...

But his warning, meant to highlight the hurdles of inaccessible technology, inadvertently highlighted an even larger and more pervasive barrier: ableism. Ableism is the societal package of ...

I had broken bones in my leg that left me in a wheelchair for months ... the first moments I truly understood how deeply ingrained ableism is in our society, even though I may not have had ...

Ableism is a system of oppression that devalues and discriminates against people with disabilities. Individuals as well as institutions, policies, and communications can be sources of ableism. For ...

Writer and campaigner, Emily Yates, 24, was born with cerebral palsy and has used a wheelchair since she was nine years old. With the opening of the Rio 2016 Paralympics, Emily tells Stylist.co.uk ...