We’ve launched our 2025 Discourse in Review: White House & Cabinet Interactive Report and updated our White House & Cabinet dashboard through the end of 2025. We analyzed 121 disability-related public statements from 17 senior administration officials, with 73.6% falling in the dehumanizing, critical, or deficit-framed range. One of the most urgent findings is about autism discourse. Autism-related statements made up 47.1% of the full dataset and scored far lower than the ove

After a six-month hiatus, Disability Discourse Matters (DDM) is proud to announce our return with major improvements to our public dashboards, data processing systems, and AI scoring mechanisms. Our mission remains the same: to track how political leaders in the United States talk about disability and to understand how those narratives shape policy, practice, and everyday experience.

We’re excited to announce the launch of Disability Discourse Matters, a new platform that explores how disability is addressed by political leaders and public institutions across the United States.