Aaron Bass likes some things about Shapiro Developmental Center, a home he shares with some 500 others on a site along the Kankakee River that first housed Illinois residents with disabilities nearly ...

From 2017 through 2023, roughly 2,680 people with developmental disabilities died under the care of the state of Missouri — on average, one person every day. This story was commissioned by the River ...

Jardini is executive director of the California Disability Services Association and lives in Sacramento. Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed a state budget in direct conflict with the promise California ...

Governor Spencer Cox, left, along with Utah State Developmental Center superintendent Tim Matthews, center, and Utah Department of Health and Human Services Executive Director Tracy Gruber, pose a ...

The sprawling ruins of the former Fernald Developmental Center in Waltham look like the setting of a low-budget scary movie, crumbling buildings strewn with trash, doors kicked in, broken windows and ...

As debate has raged over reinvention of the historic Sonoma Developmental Center property near Glen Ellen, preservation of the site’s expansive open space has been a rare point of agreement. That goal ...

This article was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Read the story at Maryland Matters. An increasing number of people with developmental disabilities are ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Adults ages 18-30 with developmental disabilities are eligible to take part in a new Mississippi State program to learn life skills on a variety of topics, including nutrition, ...

KANKAKEE, Ill. — The Illinois Department of Public Health has confirmed a case of Legionnaires’ disease at the state-run Shapiro Developmental Center in Kankakee, Capitol News Illinois has learned. In ...