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Philly study focuses on learning how to use public transit as path to independence for people with learning disabilities
Researchers at Temple University will look ...
Read More How the Education Department Helps Students with Disabilities Get an Education
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Read More Five years of remote work changed workplace accessibility. Employees with disabilities will feel its loss.
Bolstered by Trump's anti-DEI agenda, the ...
Read More Intellectual and developmental disability services brace for potential Medicaid cuts
Large proposed budget cuts on the ...
Read More Disability advocates, families push lawmakers for more services, funding
Over the course of several weeks, ...
Read More A big change for kids with disabilities is underway, Trump says. Critics say it’s against the law.
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Read More VA mistakenly declared San Diego veteran dead, cut off disability payments
U.S. Navy veteran Sky Lowe fought ...
Read More Many People With Disabilities Risk Losing Their Medicaid if They Work Too Much
By Tony Leys March 25, 2025 PLEASANTVILLE, ...
Read More Developmental disability community ‘tentatively exuberant’ at restored funding
Legislative leaders, House committee restore nearly ...
Read More Lawmakers Try Again on Bill to Give 50,000 Medically Retired Veterans Full VA Disability, Retirement Pay
By Patricia Kime Published March 19, 2025 at ...
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Supreme Court to hear school disability discrimination case
April 28, 2025 5:00 AM ET Nina Totenberg The Supreme Court hears arguments Monday in a case testing the reach of federal laws that promise special help for children with…
Read More Right of Coloradans with disabilities to live at home would be protected under Colorado bill
By Stephanie Wolf Apr. 29, 2025, 4:00 am Molly Kirkham, who has a rare chromosomal condition, has been advocating for the disability community since elementary school. “My big thing is to…
Read More Disability Protection Groups in Two States Pause Services After Missing Federal Funds
“We are fighting for our very survival.” Julia Métraux April 26, 2025 State organizations that advocate for disabled residents in New Jersey and Arkansas announced this week that they will have…
Read More Class-Action Suit over Limits on Combat-Related Disability Pay Goes Before Supreme Court
By Patricia Kime Published April 24, 2025 at 12:59pm ET The U.S. Supreme Court will consider a case Monday from medically retired service members who say the Defense Department’s misinterpretation of a…
Read More Higher ed board approves new guidelines for students with disabilities
Apr 15, 2025 | 9:52 am ET By Maya Mitchell THE BOARD OF HIGHER EDUCATION unanimously approved new guidelines to help state colleges and universities in Massachusetts run programs for students with disabilities. …
Read More Rochester couple gets national attention in their quest to normalize parents with disabilities
By Beth Adams Published April 21, 2025 at 5:00 AM EDT Local disability rights attorney and activist Stephanie Woodward and her family are getting national attention. First, a TikTok video of her…
Read More Wisconsin still denies unemployment claims for people on disability
Apr 21, 2025 | 6:30 am ET By Erik Gunn Since 2013, a Wisconsin law has blocked workers who lose a job from collecting unemployment insurance if they also receive Social…
Read More Berklee group gives musicians with disabilities space to grow
April 11, 2025 Amanda Beland Julia LaGrand was in high school when an orchestra played in her hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Among the musicians was violinist Adrian Anantawan. Anantawan…
Read More CDC faces backlash for cutting sickle cell, adult disability programs
By Alexander Tin Updated on: April 10, 2025 / 9:26 AM EDT Nearly half of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s staff working on developmental disabilities and birth defects was…
Read More Disability Advocates Sue Over ‘Systematic Dismantling’ Of Social Security
by Shaun Heasley | April 7, 2025 Disability advocates are suing the Social Security Administration over “reckless and devastating” changes imposed by the Trump administration that they say are undermining the…
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