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Why Working with a Disability Is So Much Harder Than It Should Be
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October is Disability Employment Awareness Month, a time when we talk about job discrimination, show employers how much people with disabilities can contribute ...

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When Health Meets the Workplace: How Companies Are Rethinking Support for Serious Illness
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To many employees, work is more than just a source of income. It is a part of a person’s structure, identity, and purpose in the larger context of everyday ...

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How Scent Therapy Impacts Mood and Memory
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Breathing In Calm, Breathing Out Clarity Have you ever caught a whiff of a familiar scent and instantly felt something? Maybe the smell of lavender made you ...

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Physical Function and the LCSW: Overcoming Mental Barriers to Fitness
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Physical limitations in chronic illness and disability are often exacerbated by profound psychological barriers, including fear-avoidance, grief and body image ...

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How the Science Behind Speech-Language Pathology Drives Real Inclusivity
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What if the answer to a more inclusive world isn’t in politics or policy, but in sound? Every day, people are misheard, overlooked, or misunderstood. It’s not ...

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The Hidden Economics of Recovery Housing
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Recovery housing is one of those ideas that seems deceptively simple on paper: create a stable place where people in early sobriety can live, support each ...

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When Mental Health Meets Everyday Life: The Subtle Shifts That Make the Biggest Difference
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Mental health conversations have finally moved out of the shadows. What used to be whispered about or brushed aside is now part of the open dialogue in ...

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Deaf and Hearing Theatre Professionals Collaborate in ‘Stepchild’ the Musical
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At the IRT, a small performance space in New York City’s West Village, a small group of Deaf and hearing performers and crew pioneered a new vision for ...

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Ali Stroker’s Tony Award Is a Victory for People with Disabilities
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On May 31, 2019, I saw Ali Stroker play Ado Annie in Daniel Fish’s dark reimagining of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic “Oklahoma” at the Circle in the ...

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This Is What Disability Burnout Looks Like
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Like millions of other people, I read Anne Helen Peterson’s viral article “How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation” and found myself relating to a lot of ...

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