Cognitive, learning, and neurological disabilities involve neurological disorders, as well as behavioral and mental health disorders. These disabilities can affect a person’s physical, intellectual, learning, language, and/or behavioral functions and may significantly impact the way a person processes and comprehends information.
Ability Central explores how beauty and style can be meaningful self-expression, while also naming the accessibility barriers many disabled people face. The article shares practical ways to make routines more flexible and inclusive, and why representation and disability pride matter.
Parenting a child with a disability can be challenging, but with the right support and information, it can also be deeply rewarding. This Ability Central article shares practical guidance on advocacy, partnering with schools, finding community, supporting your child’s independence, and navigating financial and long-term planning concerns.
The Rhodes Disability Project is a scholar-led peer network and working group within the Rhodes Trust that supports disabled scholars, staff, and allies at Oxford. Born from informal conversations about unmet access needs, it now offers community, practical resources, and accessibility training while partnering with the Trust to embed inclusion into daily campus life. Ability Central is honored to highlight and share this work.
Workpower / Safetypowers
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Safetypowers Roundtables are live, online, interactive skill-practice sessions for adults age 18+ with disabilities to learn how to use, adapt, and teach Safetypowers skills to others in their l...
Leonardo Criptech Incubator
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Access Intelligence: Disability & AI is a virtual symposium focused on the intersection of disability and artificial intelligence. The event will bring attendees together for a timely discus...
Northern California Grantmakers
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Join NCG for our 2026 Annual Conference to strategize, learn, and ground ourselves in the courage that emboldens us to invest abundantly in just and equitable futures.
