A “mind-blowing” number of Paralympians are faking the severity of their disabilities to take advantage of the system and win medals, a new investigation revealed. The former head of the International ...

Disability representation in the Paralympics is at the heart of this hypothetical team scenario, where athletes are imagined to be faking disabilities. That premise naturally leads into the ...

A viral video from Bengaluru allegedly shows a man pretending to have a disability while begging before being confronted by locals. The clip has sparked debate online about fraudulent begging and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Even though the CDC reports that 61 million adults in the US live with a disability, a lot of people don't fully understand what ...

American Paralympic swimmer Christie Raleigh Crossley set a world record in her Paralympics debut in Paris on Thursday. The 37-year-old Tom's River, New Jersey native posted a 27.28-second time in the ...

A US military veteran who admitted he faked being unable to walk for more than 20 years while claiming several hundred thousand dollars in disability benefits has been sentenced to prison time.

Social media calls them “miracle flights,” where passengers request wheelchairs to board early, then miraculously walk off the plane when they land. The scam delays flights, leaves people with real ...

And because of this lack of awareness, disabled people are sometimes harassed or discriminated against by some nondisabled people who may assume the worst of them if they see them doing something that ...