COLORADO SPRINGS ” Twenty-one-year-old Michael Buettner has Down syndrome, but more importantly, he has a job. It’s a job he is good at and likes. It’s a job that tests his creativity, patience and ...

A celebratory luncheon was held by the Tahoe Area Coordinating Council for the Disabled to recognize and honor the 2008 Distinguished Champions of the Disabled. Long recognized and respected as ...

Bodybuilder, powerlifter and motivational speaker Chris Ruden was ashamed of his disabled hand for most of his life, and he hid it under a cloth glove for 17 years. Ruden was born with a birth defect ...

Some 1.6 million people in the U.S. live with limb loss, according to a 2008 study, and that number could more than double by 2050. Modern prostheses enable replacements of limbs lost to injury or ...