Hundreds of developmental disability advocates rallied on Lawyers Mall Thursday to persuade lawmakers to restore what could be a massive budget cut to the agency that oversees services – what one ...

Efforts to gut the U.S. Department of Education’s special education office and move the program to another agency are already causing “immediate harm” to students with disabilities, advocates warn.

Structured, court-ordered treatment is the right course of action for some brain disorder patients. In such cases, ideology ...

WASHINGTON — Proposed mass layoffs at the U.S. Department of Education have raised alarm among disability advocates and Democratic lawmakers over the potential impact on millions of students with ...

For the past five years, Nick Battiola called his Disability Rights Wisconsin victim advocate, Pam Malin, any time he felt on the verge of a breakdown, whenever memories of the caregiver who became ...

Disability advocates are speaking out as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to take on a case that hinges on whether a diagnosis of intellectual disability should be based on more than an IQ score. The ...

Hundreds of developmental disability advocates rallied on Lawyers Mall Thursday to persuade lawmakers to restore what could ...

Advocates rally on Disability Advocacy Day at the state Capitol on Feb 25 Disability advocates from across Missouri crowded the Missouri State Capitol on Wednesday for the 25th annual Disability ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

(New York) – Hilda Macheso, a Malawian disability rights advocate, is the 2025/2026 recipient of the Human Rights Watch Marca Bristo Fellowship for Courageous Leadership in Disability Rights, Human ...