A critically acclaimed Hollywood movie opening in UK cinemas this week is shining a much-needed spotlight on how learning disability is represented in film. The Peanut Butter Falcon stars Zack ...

How do we critique theatre by artists with learning difficulties? Are these performers regarded as less able than those with physical disabilities? Bella Todd investigates the challenges the sector ...

Mind the Gap has become a world leader in creating work with, and not just for, learning-disabled actors and theatremakers. Lyn Gardner finds out how diversity can benefit collaborators beyond just ...

U.K. consultancy and theatre company Access All Areas is launching a new production outfit, co-led by learning disabled and autistic talent, and focused on improving learning disabled and ...

The news that huge numbers of learning disabled or autistic people are dying from coronavirus proves how the lives of individuals like my sister Raana have been overlooked. It is shameful that there ...

A new study suggests that the disproportionate placement of racial minorities into special education for learning disabilities is largely because of social inequities outside of schools rather than ...

IN A SUPPORTED-LIVING home for people with learning disabilities in Luton, there is no lack of Christmas cheer. One recent evening, staff helped the six women who live there decorate a gingerbread ...

Five years ago Christina Beck suffered a workplace injury to her head. What doctors initially advised would be alleviated with rest turned out to be a traumatic brain injury. Warned that she might ...

Janet Hoskin does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

For many disabled students across California’s colleges and universities, one thing is clear as a new school year approaches: It helps to have options. The 2020-21 academic year, featuring mostly ...

Learning Disability Quarterly, Vol. 4, No. 4, Severe Learning Disabilities (Autumn, 1981), pp. 415-421 (7 pages) Programming options for learning disabled (LD) adolescents have received increased ...

The high number of racial minorities placed in special education for learning disabilities is largely because of social injustices separate from schools, not racially biased educators, according to a ...