Disability Pride Month
 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY STEPHANIE KEITH, GETTY | | | How the Americans with Disabilities Act transformed the country | | The groundbreaking Americans with Disabilities Act—signed into law in 1990—not only provided comprehensive civil rights protections for people with disabilities for the first time in the nation's history, it also marked a sea change in the nation's attitudes toward disability rights. | | | |
 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY JIM RICHARDSON, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION | | | How the wheelchair opened up the world to millions of people | | Wheelchairs have existed since the invention of the wheel. But technological advances have revolutionized the way that people use them. Here's what the first wheelchairs were like—and how they helped changed the world's perception of people with disabilities. | | | |
 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY LYNN JOHNSON | | | In the United States, more than 700,000 people with autism will reach adulthood by 2030. If you think adulting is hard, adulting as a person with autism spectrum disorder is harder. In this feature from our archives, our reporter and photographer spent time with those living on the spectrum as they searched for work, love, and independence. | | | |
 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY KIYOSHI OTA, GETTY IMAGES | | | First founded as an archery contest for 16 disabled veterans, the games now rival the Olympics as an athletic spectacle. This is the story of how the paralympic movement evolved into what it is today. | | | |
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