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How to do a Lot with a Little: Managing Your Energy

By University of Washington Aging and Physical Disability RRTC

Individuals with disabilities are at a greater risk of experiencing fatigue than the general population, and this risk increases with age.

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This Is How to Talk About Disability, According to Disabled People

When the problems facing the disabled community are so material, it may seem inconsequential to have a conversation about words, but a debate about how we talk about disabilities, and how disabled people talk about themselves, has been going on for decades, and it’s especially important now, with...

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JR Thorpe
2017
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It’s Perfectly OK to Call a Disabled Person ‘Disabled,’ and Here’s Why

We’ve been taught to refer to people with disabilities using person-first language, but that might be doing more harm than good.

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Brittany Wong
2019
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Disability and Health Inclusion Strategies

Inclusion of people with disabilities into everyday activities involves practices and policies designed to identify and remove barriers such as physical, communication, and attitudinal, that hamper individuals’ ability to have full participation in society, the same as people without disabilities.

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CDC
2020
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Disabled LGBTQ Activists Are Redefining Sex and Sexuality

Three LGBTQ people are leading a revolution in how we think about disability and sexual freedom.

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Jacob Anderson-Minshall
2020
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5 Powerful Ways to Teach Growth Mindset to Children with Special Needs

Consider this – for children with ADHD, anxiety, learning differences, autism spectrum diagnoses, and other behavioral disorders, already innate negative thinking patterns have been reinforced by years and years of negative messages.

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Shawna Wingert
2022
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Co-Founding the ACLU, Fighting for Labor Rights and Other Helen Keller Accomplishments Students Don’t Learn in School

Most students learn that Keller, born June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Ala., was left deaf and blind after contracting a high fever at 19 months, and that her teacher Anne Sullivan taught her braille, lip-reading, finger spelling and eventually, how to speak.

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Olivia B. Waxman
2020
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Navigating Love and Autism

As they reach adulthood, the overarching quest of many in this first generation to be identified with Asperger syndrome is the same as many of their nonautistic peers: to find someone to love who will love them back.

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Amy Harmon
2011
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How to Handle a Major Health Issue at Work

Whether it’s a chronic illness, a cancer diagnosis, or any other condition that will have you out of the office for multiple doctor’s appointments and potentially in need of special accommodations, a health issue raises complications far more difficult than trying to make sure you’ve...

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Michele Hoos
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