Disability-specific recommendations about COVID-19, including how to find information you can trust.
Life in 2020
The pandemic refuses to go away, while a host of other issues have flared up to further complicate the craziest and most trying year anyone can remember. Read how wheelchair users across the country are coping and where they see opportunities in the chaos.
November 2020
Return to Accessible Travel
What does travel look like in a COVID-19 world for people with disabilities? Wheelchair users and travel experts make some sense out of the new hurdles and realities of traveling.
The Photo Issue
For the first time, we’ve decided to let the photos do the storytelling. Instead of our typical mix of features, we’ve assembled a package of diverse photo essays. Fewer words, more images, but the same New Mobility.
September 2020
The ADA at 30
We’re celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act by looking back, looking forward and examining where we sit today.
July 2020
Vent Life
Ventilators have come a long way since the invention of the iron lung almost 100 years ago. We check in with people who use vents to see what their active lifestyles look like today and how COVID-19 is impacting them.
June 2020
Life in the Time of COVID-19
COVID-19 has affected all of our lives in more ways than we are even aware of yet. To help make sense of the all-too-confusing present, we’ve assembled a snapshot of the post-COVID world we are living in.
May 2020
Social Media Influencers
A growing number of disabled influencers are shaping many of the online discussions around disability in ways never seen before. Learn why they chose this path, how they built their followings and what life is like on the other side of the screen.
April 2020
Sports Chairs Come of Age
We take a look at the current crop of specialized sports chairs, the sports they’re designed for and the players who use them.
March 2020
Sex, Wheels & Relationships
Rediscovering your sexuality after a spinal cord injury can be difficult. This year’s Sex, Wheels & Relationships issue focuses on getting your groove back after SCI and keeping it going strong.
February 2020
Person of the Year: Karen Braitmayer
Architect, businesswoman and policy-shaper, her impact earned her the American Institute of Architects 2019 Whitney M. Young Award for Social Responsibility. For these reasons and many more, we are honored to present Braitmayer as our 2019 Person of the Year.
January 2020
How to Get Your Old Equipment Running Like New
We turned to three longtime wheelchair users to get tips and tricks to help you take charge of your chair.
Sitting Pretty: An Excerpt
This new memoir is a poignant, beautifully-written reflection on growing up disabled.
The Athlete’s Quandary: How Paralympians are Dealing with the Pandemic
Here are some of their stories.
Government Work Incentive Programs are Harder Than Rocket Science
There is a laundry list of complicated rules and regulations that must be followed or you will get kicked out of the government programs you depend upon.
Navigating During COVID-19
Many businesses and other establishments are not aware of how to adapt for COVID in a way that is accessible and ADA compliant.
Podcaster Rhonel Cinous
Four years after sustaining a C5 injury, Rhonel Cinous is using his podcast to rediscover who he is through conversations with others from the SCI community.
American Airlines Reverses Wheelchair Weight Limit Policy
American Airlines modified its policy that temporarily barred many power wheelchair users from flying.
‘Wheels on Campus’ Profiles Top 20 Wheelchair-Friendly Colleges
New Mobility has released the most comprehensive college guide for wheelchair users ever created.
Staring Down Disasters
United Spinal is implementing an emergency preparedness campaign to help people with SCI/D address the effects and risks associated with disasters.
A Year of Reckoning and Reflection
Take time to reflect on the things we can be thankful for, including our support systems and changemakers who push forward.
What to Watch: Cooking in a Wheelchair
New YouTube show, "Cooking in a Wheelchair," features "low-effort" meals.
When Dysreflexia Calls
Here comes autonomic dysreflexia. You know that feeling … for me it’s a little bit of metal in the mouth, a little bit of tingling on the back of your head … its AD on its way.
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Our New Robot Overlords
Even the cripples who play it safe and become social workers and go to work for DVR and push the next generation of cripples to become social workers and go to work for DVR will probably be laid off and replaced by robots.
Wheelchair Confidential: Love Hurts
I woke up one morning with a red, swollen knee that alarmed me enough to go to my doctor. During the exam, he got stressed and asked, “Are you having chest pains or trouble breathing?”
Meet in the Middle: COVID Travel Compromise
Here are four tips for hitting the road in the middle of a pandemic.
Safeish Travels During COVID
Here is what I did to prepare, how things actually went and what I learned from being forced to travel during the pandemic.
We’ve Been Here Before
Normally, I’d have spent the last few months tracking spinal cord injury research. Call it all to a halt.
News October 2020
Disability Goes Partisan. One Million Dollars! Cooking in a Wheelchair. Disability Friendly Colleges. The Cyborgs Are All in Your Head. Keep Staring.