The World from PRX

Disability

Children play with Braille Bricks on the floor as a way to learn Braille and have fun.
Education
Lego to launch Braille Bricks for children with visual impairments
Hong Seo-yoon says travel is a great way to bring down barriers between people with disabilities and the nondisabled.
Lifestyle & Belief
Bringing down barriers for travelers with disabilities in Korea
Two-year-old Lula-Belle Butler-Wenlock-Simpson, right, who was born with heart problems and underwent open-heart surgery, poses with a Special Friends doll whose scar mirrors her own.
Education
‘Special Friends’ dolls reflect the lives of children with special needs
A man with no legs sits in a wheelchair in his living room
Science & Technology
A heavy-duty wheelchair expands mobility in post-war Colombia
a woman with her left leg amputated at the knee sits in a doorway
Climate Change
For Filipinos with disabilities, climate change and natural disasters are a dangerous mix
Razia, who has an intellectual disability and difficulties with speech, is depicted with her back to the camera looks out and wearing traditional patterns from India.
Women & Gender
‘Give her a voice’: Activists say women with disabilities in India need independence
A girl named Kajal walks during mobility training at the Bihar Natraheen Parishad, or Bihar School for Blind Girls, in Patna, India, in 2009.
Technology
How do you make walking easier for people who are blind? Put submarine tech in a cane
Conflict & Justice
Twenty years of the Americans with Disabilities Act
Conflict & Justice
Oscar Pistorius takes the stand, apologizes to Steenkamp’s family
Moscow's pedestrian underpasses technically have ramps, but you wouldn't want to go down them in a wheelchair. Some of them are pitched at a 45 degree angle.
Sports
Russians are turning out like never before for Paralympians in Sochi
Moscow's pedestrian underpasses technically have ramps, but you wouldn't want to go down them in a wheelchair. Some of them are pitched at a 45 degree angle.
Sports
Russians are turning out like never before for Paralympians in Sochi
Global Politics
Disability rights advocate paints picture of changing Russia
Health & Medicine
Scientists taking closer look at how critical hearing is
Global Politics
In describing disability, language differences challenge even the best intentioned
London Paralympic Games open to high expecations
Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng says return to China is ‘inevitable’
Arts, Culture & Media
Bespoke ‘fairings’ designed to give prosthetic limbs a bit more personality
Environment
Mainstream tech opens doors for blind people
Arts, Culture & Media
Interpreting music into American Sign Language
Global Politics
Closed-captioning law to change internet
Camp Jabberwocky: Disability rights through community building
Lifestyle & Belief
Yulia Simonova: Making Russia’s Disabled Less Invisible
Arts, Culture & Media
Wheelchair Diaries: Getting Around Europe on Four Wheels
Essay: The Roots of Opposition to the U.N. Disability Convention
Opposing the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Pioneer in Disability Rights
From Native Americans to the ADA: A History of Disabilities in the United States
Arts, Culture & Media
Becoming the Bionic Man
Sports
The Language of Disability Around the World
Sports
Wheelchair Ballet Performer Sue Austin Underwater
Sports
The Paralympics Have Gripped Britain
Record Number of Veterans Applying for Disability
Is Pregnancy a Disability?
Business, Economics and Jobs
Becoming the Bionic Man
Arts, Culture & Media
The Great International Autism Road Trip
Emerging Science Note/Can You Hear Me Now?
Recycled Prostheses
Business, Economics and Jobs
Social security disability insurance:
Conflict & Justice
Paul Miller, disabled activist dies at 49
Conflict & Justice
New communications law mandates closed captioning on the internet
Business, Economics and Jobs
Disabled workers hit harder by the recession
Conflict & Justice
Disabled Students More Likely to Face Corporal Punishment
Lifestyle & Belief
Human sexuality
Health & Medicine
Making Iraq accessible for the disabled
Conflict & Justice
Paralympic Games in Vancouver