With summer around the corner, commercials for all kinds of colorful clothing are popping up on any screen I happen to look at.

“Google it” has nowadays become the go-to response to questions we actually don’t know how to answer.

Foundation Honors Actress Marlee Matlin with Morton E.

The Ruderman TV Challenge was designed to continue our work in Hollywood and advocate for greater inclusion of performers with disabilities.

This piece was written by Gary Alpert, Program Director for Ambassadors for Inclusion.

February is Jewish Disability Awareness and Inclusion Month, a time to raise awareness and support efforts to foster the inclusion of people with disabilities and their families in Jewish communitie

I first wrote about Tikkun Olam Makers—better known as TOM—in May of last year, and titled it “How to Change the World.” Admittedly a lofty title, but not an inaccurate one.

 
Our New Study Reveals Self-Driving Cars Could Open 2 Million Employment Opportunities for People with Disabilities
 

 
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Self-driving cars have almost become a staple of

The canine, “man’s best friend.

The year may still feel new to many of us, but to expecting parents it is absolutely the same old by comparison to the newness of their coming baby.

Ah, the holiday season is upon us.

On December 5, there was yet another shooting of an unarmed, black, and mentally ill man at the hands of law enforcement, this time in Arkansas.

The Ruderman Family Foundation has announced the winners of its fifth annual Ruderman Prize in Inclusion, five grants totaling $250,000 awarded to companies and organizations that operate innovative

The advertising and modelling industries have long been under fire for unrealistic portrayals of the human form—particularly of women, though men have not been immune either.

Last month we published the Ruderman White Paper on Voting Accessibility for People with Disabilities.

THE RUDERMAN WHITE PAPER:
VOTING ACCESSIBILITY FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

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We are less than two months away from the 2016

Football. It’s America’s obsession and most of us are not ashamed to acknowledge that.

Those in the disability realm are in a unique situation- arguably a challenge- when it comes to highlighting their cause or issue: how to reach and influence the general public in today’s hyper

In all the hype surrounding two of the largest international sporting events in the world—the Olympics and the Paralympics—we’ve heard about grueling training routines, deep backstories, scandal

Only a week ago, the Paralympics were in serious trouble. As we wrote in our last blog, they’d sold barely 12% of the available tickets—just about 290,000.

In a previous piece on how to avoid offending minority groups, I wrote how you should not call a person with a disability inspiring just because they do basic, mundane things.

In a few weeks, following the Games of the XXXI Olympiad, the world will once again gather in Rio de Janiero to celebrate the globe’s diversity and compete in feats of athleticism.

Whether or not you actually watch the Olympics and Paralympics, if you’ve at all been on social media in the last two weeks, you probably haven’t missed this video:

Produced by UK’s Channel 4,

I’ve been doing martial arts—various forms of jiu-jitsu—for about eight years now.

Girls and their dolls. It sounds like a cliché, but the relationship between these anthropomorphic toys and their owners is quite real and has durably stood the test of time.

Captain America, Iron Man, Wonder Woman, Black Panther, Superman, and the list goes on and on, and we’re still talking only about the superheroes that were featured in big-budget movies this year al

Two weeks ago I awoke (uncharacteristically early) to attend the Second Annual Disability Pride Parade, marching from New York City’s Union Square to Madison Square Park.

It’s almost not a hyperbole to say that we are constantly bombarded by news of technological advances.

If I asked you what comes to mind when you think of orthotics, you would probably think of shoe inserts, and you wouldn’t be alone.

Last week, my partner and I upheld our long-standing tradition of watching kids movies together and went to see Disney’s latest creation—Zootopia.

EasyStroll is an easy and fast connector that enables a wheelchair user to move freely and independently with a baby stroller attache.

Employers are in a constant tug-of-war: Make the workers happy and make the clients happy simultaneously.