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Federal law doesn't require a magic phrase to trigger a disability accommodation at work — just a plain request. Here's what the process actually looks like, and where it can still break down.
SAGE, founded in 1978 and now the country's oldest and largest LGBTQ+ elder organization, opened the nation's first municipally funded LGBTQ senior center in New York.
Starbucks' first U.S. Signing Store, opened near Gallaudet University in 2018, made American Sign Language the working language of a business — and a neighborhood meeting place.
Oxford Phoenix FC, a football club made entirely of refugees and asylum seekers, went from informal kickabouts in 2021 to a place in the English football pyramid.
Vernon Jackson's monthly Gifted Event gives autistic children free sensory-friendly haircuts — one child at a time, for as long as it takes.
In Roxbury and Dorchester, residents of the Dudley Street area won the power of eminent domain over their own blocks — and kept the land in community hands for four decades.
In Switzerland, the inclusive ensemble Tabula Musica joined forces with Lucerne Festival musicians and a disability theater company to build a stage where no body is the wrong instrument.
Since 1991, the Los Angeles company Deaf West Theatre has put deaf and hearing actors on the same stage, in the same scenes, in ASL and English simultaneously.
Everytable, the Los Angeles restaurant chain founded to fight food insecurity, charges what a neighborhood can pay — and built a business on the difference.
What began in 1966 with one woman handing books to children in Washington, D.C. became the largest children's literacy nonprofit in the United States.