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 ...

A new study co-authored by MaryAnn Demchak, Ph.D., professor of special education at the University of Nevada, Reno, and Brianna Grumstrup, Ph.D., assistant professor of special education at the ...

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 ...

In a new study commissioned by the Ruderman Family Foundation, it was revealed that 22% of all characters with disabilities on network television and 20% of such characters on streaming services are ...

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 ...

Gov. Kim Reynolds sent shock waves through the disability community with her recent announcement that she is closing the Glenwood State Resource Center, home to about 200 Iowans with a variety of ...

Many persons with disabilities are at a higher risk of premature death up to 20 years earlier than others in the society. The number of people with significant disabilities worldwide has reached 1.3 ...

Students who have the most severe disabilities aren’t often enough being prepared well for work or more education beyond high school, and Congress has an opportunity to change that when it gets around ...

A Fás programme aimed at people with disabilities is failing people with "significant disabilities", a lobby group has claimed. People with Disabilities in Ireland (PWDI) made the claim in a ...

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 ...

An 'astonishing' deficit of data about how the global boom in educational technology could help pupils with disabilities in low and middle-income countries has been highlighted in a new report.

The parents of an Arizona woman in a vegetative state who gave birth released a statement Tuesday that they said sought to counter any misconceptions about their daughter's condition. The 29-year-old ...