Nondisabled parents produce disabled children with startling regularity — and disabled people produce nondisabled children time and again.
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Research shows that people with disabilities die younger than nondisabled peers.
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They want to be treated and evaluated the same as nondisabled students.
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Thirty-five million eligible voters are disabled, and disability turnout lags behind that of nondisabled voters by 6 percentage points; if disabled people voted at the same rate as their nondisabled counterparts, there would be 2.2 million more voters.
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"When groups of nondisabled people travel together, they get a discount," he said.
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Medicaid has seen an influx of children and nondisabled adults enrolled in recent years.
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Zayid had long understood that some nondisabled people recoiled at disabilities out of fear.
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Nondisabled people excitedly circulate the new gadget, hailing it as a win for accessibility.
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Perhaps this is why they usually conduct these briefings before the nondisabled people board.
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Disabled lives are as valid as nondisabled lives, but they are not the same.
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The tryborg — a word I invented — is a nondisabled person who has no fundamental interface.
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Here's a look at how the performers navigate in ways their nondisabled peers never need to consider.
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Nondisabled people ask what we did before straws existed, and I have harsh news for them: We died.
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In fact, 443 percent of nondisabled adults on Medicaid do have jobs, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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Texas's "traditional" Medicaid program — the one that covers nonpregnant, nondisabled adults — is the least generous in the country.
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About 59 percent of nondisabled adults on Medicaid who are under 65 years old have jobs, the organization found.
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Why was it O.K. for nondisabled stars to play disabled characters — a practice nicknamed "CripFace" — and win big awards?
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We're already building, adapting, and hacking the technology; nondisabled people just need to get out of the way. s.e.
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Do the disabled characters have their own narrative purpose other than the education and profit of a nondisabled character?
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Unfortunately, significant achievement gaps persist between children with disabilities and their nondisabled peers on almost every indicator of academic performance.
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The unemployment rate for job seekers with disabilities is roughly 9 percent — more than double that of the nondisabled population.
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A mere 27.7 percent of disabled people age 19703 to 64 are employed, compared to 72.8 percent of nondisabled people.
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Quick cut to a nondisabled white woman, tears streaming across a smiling face, backlit to highlight her moment of inspiration.
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These Republican-led states now want nondisabled, nonelderly adults to have to work or look for work to keep their benefits.
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She doesn't mind if he's in a special-education classroom, provided he has some contact with nondisabled students during the day.
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No matter what we do, what we achieve, the nondisabled world will largely always see us as less than, as separate.
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And students with disabilities, the study found, are suspended two to three times the rate of nondisabled students in charter schools.
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Perhaps because my physical impairments gained on me slowly, it took me years to feel the sting of nondisabled people's dismissal.
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So far, more than 22,000 Montanans have participated, and employment among nondisabled Medicaid recipients is up 9 percent in the state.
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Too often, both the lack of accessibility in public spaces and the ingrained ableism of many nondisabled people bars my way.
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If I am with a companion — a nondisabled friend or a date — it is assumed that this person is my caregiver.
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They are more likely to experience relationship abuse and less likely to report the behavior than nondisabled women, Dr. Nosek said.
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My nondisabled friend then applied to stay at the flat for the exact same dates, and Kirk immediately accepted my friend's reservation.
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And despite widespread outcry from business groups, Texas remains one of only five states with no statewide antidiscrimination protections for nondisabled residents.
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Instead, while disabled actors are shut out of both disabled and nondisabled roles, those who "crip up" to play them are lavishly rewarded.
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We are accustomed to thinking of accessibility as being about an accommodation that bridges the gap between the disabled and the nondisabled worlds.
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That leaves just 6% of recipients who are nondisabled but living in poverty who would be the subject of work conditions, according to Kaiser.
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In 2016, only 2.7% of the 100 top-grossing films featured characters with disabilities, and almost all of those roles went to nondisabled actors.
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According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, about 59 percent of nondisabled adults who are under 65 years old and on Medicaid have jobs. Rep.
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Even when the theater department mounted a play about a girl with cerebral palsy, a nondisabled student was chosen over Zayid for the part.
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Anti-abortion legislation and rhetoric often circulates stereotypical, infantilizing imagery about people with cognitive disabilities as innocents in need of protection from nondisabled saviors.
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States, whether or not they take a block grant, could also add a work requirement for nondisabled adults, further limiting access to the program.
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In offering this work, we reject the stereotypes and misconceptions disabled people deal with every day from nondisabled people, and even from other disabled people.
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While blogs and forums touched on the subject, often from the point of view of the nondisabled partner, media outlets appear to haven't touched it.
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While blogs and forums touched on the subject, often from the point of view of the nondisabled partner, media outlets appear to haven't touched it.
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The Trump administration has made them a priority, encouraging states to put forward proposals that require many nondisabled, nonelderly adults to work or look for employment.
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But I thought it might be tough on the nondisabled people, whose progress would inevitably be slowed down by the accommodations that their disabled classmates required.
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The disability community is coming to understand the importance of immigration work, while nondisabled people are learning more about the increased incidence of disability in immigration detention.
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In one study, researchers found that disabled people are more likely than nondisabled people to die from heart disease, cancer, stroke, respiratory disease, accidents suicides and assaults.
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Black Americans and disabled Americans wouldn't be expected to wait until employers have run out of white and nondisabled people to hire until they get their chance.
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According to 2016 Department of Labor statistics, only 31.2 percent of working-age Americans with disabilities had jobs, compared to 76.4 percent of working-age nondisabled Americans.
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In a statement released by Link20—a Ruderman Family Foundation initiative that brings disabled and nondisabled activists together—the group objected to the segregated nature of the event.
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Since children with disabilities are often judged as incapable of growing into self-sufficient adults, they would be considered a public charge more often than their nondisabled peers.
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Here's what we know so far: Medicaid: The Affordable Care Act expanded Medicaid eligibility to cover single, nondisabled adults with incomes just above the poverty line in several states.
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Kentucky's waiver would allow the state to deny coverage to any nondisabled adult who cannot prove they are working, volunteering or in school for at least 20 hours per week.
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Kentucky's waiver will allow the state to deny coverage to any nondisabled adult who cannot prove they are working, volunteering or in school for at least 20 hours per week.
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I've asked multiple nondisabled friends who have had the same anesthesiologist and none reported him making any remarks indicating he felt the same way about their right to bear children.
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But that still leaves about 25 million nondisabled, non-elderly adults who could potentially be subject to work requirements and other eligibility conditions, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation's estimates.
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Disability studies scholar Kim Sauder was one of the first to express concerns about the implications, bringing up an issue that many nondisabled people — and some disabled people — hadn't considered.
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These stories were written by nondisabled authors; they reinforced the ableist narrative because that's all they knew, it's all they could imagine: How terrible it would be to be disabled!
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Most important, she was living proof that disabled adults exist and that they live life just like nondisabled adults do, even if it means doing certain things a little differently.
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While nondisabled people may not think of it this way, immigration, transportation, reproductive rights, affordable housing, employment nondiscrimination, LGBTQ rights, racial injustice, and criminal justice reform are also disability issues.
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Instead, the White House has allowed states to enact work requirements, where if nondisabled Medicaid recipients fail to prove they are working, training, or volunteering, they can lose their health insurance.
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Kentucky's waiver seeks to allow the state to deny coverage to any nondisabled adult who cannot prove they are working, volunteering or in school for at least 20 hours per week.
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Most nondisabled adults receiving aid work; most of those who don't have good reasons for not working, such as health issues or the need to serve as caretakers for family members.
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Despite the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act signed into law 30 years ago, disabled travelers like me are routinely excluded from services offered to nondisabled travelers, with deleterious effects.
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In 2200, the most recent year for which we have data, a mere 221 percent of people with disabilities age 21970 to 64 were employed, compared to 72.8 percent of nondisabled people.
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In 2016, the most recent year for which we have data, a mere 27.7 percent of people with disabilities age 16 to 64 were employed, compared to 19703 percent of nondisabled people.
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What she found was a sobering affirmation of what advocates already knew: Disabled people have a cumulative probability of arrest by age 28 of nearly 43 percent, versus 30 percent among nondisabled people.
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If the audience is larger than five people, then the audience certainly includes disabled and nondisabled people; whether Deaf or Hearing; neurodivergent or neurotypical; in chronic pain or, for the present, pain-free.
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It's natural to assume that once people with disabilities have remedies for discrimination and greater access to society, they'll do exactly what a lot of nondisabled people do: get married and have kids.
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"To the average nondisabled person, a plastic straw seems like a nice-to-have accessory, but for many disabled people, plastic straws are a necessity," she wrote last month for Rooted In Rights.
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For nondisabled people and those without disabled or elderly family members, concerns about resilient disaster planning may seem like an afterthought, but the stakes can be very real for those on the front lines.
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" Or, as Howard Sherman, the interim director of the Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts, put it: "Playing someone with a disability should not be considered a talent or a skill for nondisabled actors.
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Few people with disabilities are admitted to medical school: Medical students with disabilities also have higher attrition rates than nondisabled students, partly because, despite the A.D.A., they don't always receive the support they need.
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Whether it's forced sterilization, experimentation, eugenics, or treatments to keep us small and manageable, removing our right to control our bodies, our personhood, has been common practice by the "well-meaning" nondisabled public for centuries.
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To be sure, when living with a disability, every aspect of your day, and therefore your campaign, must be thought about differently and must take into consideration more potential difficulties than nondisabled candidates ever account for.
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During the recession of 2009 and its aftermath, the Obama administration removed a time limit that prevented unemployed, nondisabled people without children from receiving food stamps for more than three months in a three-year period.
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The federal government's payments to states would be capped, based on the number of enrollees, with some categories of people (such as the disabled or the elderly) having a higher cap than others (nondisabled adults or children).
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In all of the states that have had a work requirement approved by the administration, childless, nondisabled adults who have been the primary beneficiaries of Medicaid expansion would be required to work to continue receiving their benefits.
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Administrators across the country who work with J-13 visa holders say the teachers must learn the federal requirement for inclusion, which requires that disabled children be taught alongside nondisabled peers, in the least restrictive environment possible.
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Context: Eight states -- Arizona, Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, New Hampshire, Maine, Utah and Wisconsin -- have submitted requests to CMS seeking to require nondisabled Medicaid enrollees to either work or provide community service, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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Yet the New York State Board of Regents' recent decision to permit students with disabilities to graduate, even though they do not pass the same five Regents examinations as nondisabled students, perpetuates and undercuts the fundamental equality principle.
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Sometimes, counter to the artist's actual focus, audiences assume that the artist's work is intended to educate nondisabled people about disability rights and etiquette, or to nudge people to think differently about disability and equity in the world.
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Compared with nondisabled adults on Medicare, disabled people on Medicare are more than twice as likely to forgo care because of the cost, and three times as likely to have difficulty finding a doctor who can accommodate their needs.
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Nearly 30 years after the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed and signed into law by President George H.W. Bush, disabled people in New York and elsewhere are still struggling with access to things nondisabled people might consider basic.
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What is especially disappointing is that the Regents, instead of changing the graduation standards for students with disabilities, did not offer these students, as the Americans With Disabilities Act requires, reasonable accommodations so they could demonstrate equal proficiency as nondisabled students.
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By the end of the episode, he has found a sled-hockey team for people with disabilities where the competition is real, and so is the contact — he ends up with a smashed face, just as nondisabled hockey players sometimes do.
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Now, having been in many such classrooms, I can say that the primary advantage redounds to the nondisabled children, who grow up less afraid of difference than they would otherwise be, more receptive to the intense humanity of their fellow students.
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The limit would be set by calculating the average per-person cost of care for five specified groups of Medicaid beneficiaries (people 19963 and older, people with disabilities, children under 19, newly eligible adults and other nondisabled adults under 65).
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There's a statistic about violence against disabled children, from the World Health Organization, drawing on two systematic reviews published in the medical journal The Lancet: Disabled children are nearly four times as likely to experience violence as their nondisabled peers.
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The passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990 was truly a milestone, and has led to great improvements in accessibility and opportunity for things that many nondisabled people take for granted: education, employment, housing, and transportation, just to name a few.
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Eight states — Arizona, Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, New Hampshire, Maine, Utah and Wisconsin — have submitted requests to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services seeking to require nondisabled Medicaid enrollees to either work or provide community service, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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According to a 2016 survey conducted by the American Enterprise Institute, nearly two-thirds of respondents did not think most poor people held a steady job; in reality, that year a majority of nondisabled working-age adults were part of the labor force.
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Most people with disabilities don't wish they had never been born; most people with disabilities contribute to the world they inhabit; most people with disabilities both give more to and get more from life than their nondisabled peers may be inclined to guess.
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Under the Arkansas system, there is a three-strike policy, whereby if nondisabled people fail to perform 80 hours of work activities per month for three months, they are banned from receiving Medicaid for the rest of the year, even if they subsequently start working.
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But if they do find work, they may end up making too much money to qualify for Medicaid in a state like Kansas, which has refused to expand Medicaid under Obamacare and therefore still only covers nonelderly, nondisabled parents who make very little money.
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Disability rights advocate Lawrence Carter-Long notes the bendy straw was an "early example of universal design" — inclusive design that benefits disabled people, older adults, and nondisabled people alike, like the curb cuts that help wheelchair users, people with walkers, and parents with young children.
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In response to this widespread discomfort, the Department of Homeland Security Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties has released a guide to help nondisabled people "learn to interact" with disabled individuals, and many disability rights activists continue to write about others' negative reactions to their disabilities.
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"Rather, Robles alleges that this case resembles one in which nondisabled customers have ready access to the front door through a stairway that adjoins a sidewalk, while wheelchair users must enter the back door via a ramp surrounded by trash dumpsters in an alley," the brief said.
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When I attended the 2018 annual convention of The Arc, the country's largest and oldest organization for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, I was struck by how seldom we see in common life what I saw there: the meeting of disabled and nondisabled people as equals.
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And while the public reacted with outrage at disabled people being abused by law enforcement, I have to wonder if nondisabled people really knew just what the protesters with disabilities, including our friend Steph Woodward, whose image became synonymous with this activism for a time, were really fighting for.
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We hope you will take them in, read them with the care with which they were written and selected, and understand that we disabled people do not just deserve or ask for the right to exist in this world with the same dignity and respect nondisabled people receive.
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According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal-leaning research and advocacy group, among SNAP households with at least one nondisabled working age adult, more than half include someone in the work force, and the number rises to above 80 percent in families with children.
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Our continued failure to recognize disabled lives as inherently valuable irrespective of their relationship to nondisabled ones, even as the state of Ohio plans to coerce parents into unsupported roles as caregivers, belies a lack of cohesion as to what "disability rights activism" is and who should be at its center.
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Today, children with disabilities are not only attending school with their nondisabled peers, but are performing at higher levels of academic performance than ever before: test scores and high school graduation rates are at an all-time high; and the percentage of students with disabilities attending college has practically doubled in recent years.
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" A statement Ms. LePage recently shared with Maine reporters took a more colorful tone, saying in part, "Shawn will not risk the fiscal health of the state to expand welfare for nondisabled individuals, and will not support funding welfare by raising taxes, raiding the rainy-day fund, or using one-time budget gimmicks.
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I could ask adults about choosing a college, how to advance in a career and what to look for in my first apartment, but my nondisabled mentors didn't have to think about accessibility or accommodations, or the havoc that a constant physical hustle and lack of sleep can wreak on my body.
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She looked at her life, and her infirmities, with an unblinking eye in a series of memoirs that included "Remembering the Bone-House: An Erotics of Place and Space" (1989), "Carnal Acts" (1990), "Voice Lessons: On Becoming a (Woman) Writer" (1994) and "Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled" (1996).
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"The storytelling shortcut of having a character start the play with a disability and end without it is a nondisabled way to look at it," said Talleri McRae, a co-founder of the National Disability Theater and a consultant on access, inclusion and education at the Actors Theater of Louisville, which has been staging "A Christmas Carol" annually for 44 years.
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"The A.C.A.,'' she said, "moved millions of working-age, nondisabled adults into a program that was created to care for seniors in need, pregnant mothers, children and people with disabilities, stretching the safety net for some of our most fragile populations, many of whom are still on waiting lists for critical home-care services while states enroll millions of newly eligible able-bodied adults.''
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Her work appears in the December issue of the American Journal of Public Health, and it provides valuable insight into the demographic profiles of people arrested across the US. Specifically, McCauley found that disabled people—including people with emotional, physical, cognitive, or sensory disabilities—are much more likely to be arrested before age 28 than nondisabled people, and that these statistics are even more dramatic for disabled people of color.
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Each death of a prominent and beloved person in the disability community comes with an awareness that nondisabled people will suddenly discover them while likely ignoring the radical nature of their work in life—and the work of their surviving community members, whether they are disabled people defending the right to parent or involved in health care policy work to ensure that no one has to die from insulin rationing again.
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