Individuals with disabilities typically have lower levels of wellbeing compared to those without disabilities. Tools designed to evaluate wellbeing and its key aspects—emotional, psychological, and social—may not be as accessible or suitable for people who have complex communication needs (CCN).

This article introduces the series that Trends in Ecology & Evolution has run throughout 2025. In this series, we have interviewed ecologists and evolutionary biologists with disabilities and have asked them how we can make the field more inclusive

This article investigates how Italian and Spanish university graduates with invisible disabilities choose to disclose their conditions. It aims to examine to whom, when, what, how, and why they decide to share their disability within the university setting.

Ableism is a type of discriminatory bias, like racism and sexism, that one standard human norm exists and any ways of being human that don’t meet this standard are considered inferior. This paper interrogates the impact of ableism on providing optimal paediatric care for children with disabilities and how the pervasiveness of ableist discrimination impacts on children's health and well-being (SDG3) and heightens inequalities (SDG10).

This commentary draws attention to The National Medical Commission (NMC) in India for its revised curriculum of medical education where they have reintroduced ‘lesbianism’ and ‘sodomy’ as sexual offenses, compromising queer affirmative and inclusive access to medical care.

This article examines the relationship between intelligence and creativity, focusing on divergent and convergent thinking in a sample of children, including those with high potential.

World Day of Social Justice 2027: Promoting Equality, Inclusion, and Human Rights