More than sixty-one million Americans have disabilities, and increasing evidence documents that they experience health care disparities. Although many factors likely contribute to these disparities, ...

Children with disabilities in foster care are extremely vulnerable, facing risks of maltreatment and removal from their homes and greater need for health care services. New research suggests that ...

The Lancet’s proposal to create a new label of “profound autism” serves only to distract us from the work of ensuring that all autistic people have everything they need to thrive. The effort to divide ...

There is general agreement—a rarity in the warring world of education reform—that the focus of special education reform must change from procedural compliance to academic outcomes. The U.S. Department ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a new study commissioned by the Ruderman Family Foundation, it was revealed that 22% of all characters with disabilities on ...

City schools should offer full-time in-person classes this fall to students with significant disabilities, according to a new report based on discussions with families of more than 1,000 special ...

As a new Congress begins, the mental health and broader disability community is losing a champion with the retirement of Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-N.J.). Since taking office in 1995, Frelinghuysen ...

Patients aged 65 and older who survive an episode of mechanical ventilation during a hospitalization are more likely to suffer from long-term disabilities after leaving the hospital than those who ...

As the National Dental Commission (NDC) is revising the country’s dental curriculum, India can take the lead in introducing ...

ORLANDO, Fla.— Children with disabilities in foster care are extremely vulnerable, facing risks of maltreatment and removal from their homes and greater need for healthcare services. New research ...