Several books are gaining accolades for their portrayal of the disability experience as part of a special set of awards handed out alongside the venerable Newbery and Caldecott Medals. The Trump ...

A fundamental issue is a lack of leadership, which is crucial for the complex, multisectorial, and long-term initiatives required to bridge the health inequities existing for people with disabilities.

Herzog meticulously describes how, within the latter group, individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities were especially targeted, marginalised, and mistreated; their alleged different ...

The Mayor’s Officer on Disability assists City departments in making all programs, services, benefits, activities, and facilities owned, operated, or funded by the City and County of San Francisco ...

School districts prepare students for post-grad life, but skills and potential are lost as Chicago families try to figure out the next steps on their own. Seven months after he graduated from an ...

But Stanley said she discovered the city of Sanford, Florida, had changed its policy for those leaving because of a disability, such as Stanley’s debilitating Parkinson disease. Rather than ...

Yazlin is a direct support provider, or DSP. DSPs provide crucial care for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities—a population that tops 8.3 million nationwide—often ...

But the bond between the 54-year-old - who has an intellectual and speech disability - and his mother Tan Hum Seow remains as firm as ever. When the 77-year-old told him she would die one day ...

Whaikaha – Ministry of Disabled People funds services to support the administration of the Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation) Act 2003. The Ministry of Health has statutory ...

Many people with disabilities still face barriers to access healthcare, education, jobs, leisure, and to participate in political life. Almost half of the EU population think that discrimination based ...

The Canada Pension Plan (CPP) disability benefit is a monthly payment you can get if you are unable to work because of a disability. Substantially gainful work is a job that pays wages equal to or ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Andrew Pulrang writes about disability practices, policy, and culture. There is at least one relatively new way that people with ...