Study Shows More Disability Stories Onscreen, but Few Disabled Actors
The study published Wednesday also showed that television is far behind film when it comes to representation of characters with disabilities.
Pixar’s film “Luca” includes a character born without an arm, but it isn’t his defining characteristic.Credit.Disney/Pixar
July 28, 2021, 7:56 p.m. ET
Let’s start with the good news: Significant depictions of disability on film and television shows have nearly tripled over the past decade compared with the previous 10 years.
Almost all of those titles, however, still don’t feature disabled actors.
That was the conclusion of a new study released Wednesday by Nielsen and the nonprofit organization RespectAbility, which analyzed the representation of disabled characters on film and TV shows released from 1920 to 2020
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DOVER, DE- Health insurance companies in Delaware Monday were hit with 1.3 million dollars in fines for refusing coverage on mental health drugs and services.
The fine came on the 31st anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act, which ensured disabled people in the US would not receive poorer quality of life care and service as a result of their disability.
The fines were part of a nearly two-year-long Delaware Department of Insurance market conduct investigation into
complaints from policyholders who reported their insurance unfairly denied claims to pay for mental health medication and services.
“We knew these violations were occurring we knew that insurance companies were not fulfilling their obligations typically you only find that out by speaking to consumers,” said DOI Commissioner Trinidad Navarro.