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ABILITY Magazine
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Managing Editor
Gillian Friedman, MD
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Editors
Paula Fitzgerald
Renne Gardner
Pamela K. Johnson
Sylvia Martirosyan
Lia Limón Martirosyan
Molly McGovern
Josh Pate, PhD
Maya Sabatello, PhD, JD
Nancy Shi
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Health Editors
E. Thomas Chappell, MD
Larry Goldstein, MD
Moses de Graft-Johnson, MD
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Web Editors
Alhaji Conteh
Marge Plasmier
Mary Shafizadeh
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Contributors
George Covington
Ashley Fiolek
Geri Jewell
Regina Hall
Myles Mellor
Paul Pelland
Betsy Valnes
David S. Zimmerman
Danielle Zurovick, PhD
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Humor Writers
Jeff Charlebois
George Covington, JD
Gene Feldman, JD
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Multi-Media
Helki Frantzen
Stanya Kahn
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Graphics
Scott Johnson
Melissa Murphy
Editor-in-Chief Chet Cooper
Transcriptionist Sandy Grabowski
Photographer Nancy Villere
Categories Health and Disability
Frequency Bimonthly
Publisher Chet Cooper
Founder Chet Cooper
Year founded 1990
Country United States of America
Based in Santa Ana and Costa Mesa, California
Website abilitymagazine.com
ISSN 1062-5321
OCLC number 502282231

ABILITY Magazine is an American magazine founded by Chet Cooper[1] in 1990 and launched as the first newsstand magazine focused on issues of health and disability. ABILITY Magazine is consistently ranked in the Top 50 Magazines in the World[2] — and is the leading magazine covering Health, Disability and Human Potential. It is distributed by Time Warner as a bimonthly publication (totaling six issues annually), with offices in Santa Ana and Costa Mesa, California.

Content

ABILITY Magazine's content goal is to help remove the misunderstandings and erase the stereotypes that surround disability issues.[3] ABILITY covers the latest on health, environmental protection, assistive technology, employment, sports, travel, universal design, mental wellness and much more. Frequently explored issues include the Americans with Disabilities Act,[4] civil rights advancement, employment opportunities for people with disabilities, and human interest stories. Writers and contributors include MDs, PhDs, JDs, best-selling authors, U.S. senators and advocates. Cover interviews consist of movie and TV celebrities, business leaders, sports figures, presidents, first ladies and more. Each cover story of ABILITY Magazine showcases a prominent public figure who either has a disability or who has a connection to a disability-related cause.

ABILITY Magazine is dedicated to promoting accessibility in both content and form and is the first to embed VOICEYE (a high density matrix barcode system) on its editorial pages to hear print through smartphones and tablets—giving greater access to people with low vision, blindness or reading challenges in 58 languages.[5]

Representation

ABILITY frequently participates in international conferences, public awareness events and opportunities to affect policy surrounding issues of disability; and has partnered with the United Nations in efforts to raise awareness.[6][7]

Notable contributors

Throughout the years, many entertainers and celebrities representing important causes have been featured on the cover of ABILITY Magazine. Notable musicians, such as Ray Charles,[8] Andrea Bocelli,[9] and Avril Lavigne;[10] and actors, such as Mary Tyler Moore,[11] Kirk Douglas,[12] Jack Lemmon,[13] Laura Dern,[14] Holly Robinson Peete,[15] and Fran Drescher,[16] have shared their stories with ABILITY. Other famous faces include actor and advocate Christopher Reeve,[17] talk show host Montel Williams,[18] comedian Richard Pryor,[19] and entertainer Donny Osmond.[20] Most recently, Joe Mantegna, Kurt Yaeger, William H. Macy, Jennifer Esposito, Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly, Andy Madadian, Amy Brenneman, Howie Mandel, Kirk Douglas, Stevie Wonder, Gary Busey, Austin Basis, and Max Gail have been featured in the magazine.[21]

Politicians featured in ABILITY Magazine have included President Bill Clinton,[22] Senators Tom Harkin,[23] Bob Dole,[24] Chuck Grassley,[25] Max Cleland, Harris Wofford,[26] Congressman Jim Langevin,[27] and First Ladies Laura Bush and Rosalynn Carter.[28][29]

Issues of ABILITY Magazine have also included a wide array of profiles of leaders in the world of business, including Medtronic founder Earl Bakken,[30] Kinko's CEO Paul Orfalea,[31] and Panasonic CEO Don Iwatani,[32] and companies that embody "best practices" including Boeing, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Starbucks, and CVS Pharmacy.[33][34][35]

Awards

ABILITY received the 2014 Da Vinci Award for Accessibility and Universal Design.[36][37] The magazine embeds VOICEYE (High Density code) on its editorial pages to hear print through smartphones and tablets—giving greater access to people with low vision, blindness or reading challenges in 58 languages.[38][39]

Affiliations

ABILITY Magazine is part of a diverse network of organizations geared toward advancement and inclusion of people with disabilities. These projects include:

ABILITY Magazine created an alliance with the China Press for People with Disabilities — providing the rights to publish each other's selected stories, artworks and articles, in an effort to bring both countries to experience human interest stories that otherwise would never be known.[citation needed]

ABILITY Magazine has partnered with the Arc of the United States "to raise awareness about disability issues and the resources available to people with disabilities and their families."[43]

ABILITY Magazine is listed as an awareness resource by the United Cerebral Palsy organization[44] and has provided media for the Disability Rights Legal Center.[45]

References

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