Disability Rights

The Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel released an opinion asserting federal disability civil-rights laws do not impose an “integration mandate” requiring ...

A California ninth grader with dyslexia reports marked academic improvement after using school-provided assistive technology (speech-to-text, audiobooks, photo captu...

The Fox News opinion piece states that combat-injured veterans and roughly 14.3 million military caregivers are awaiting congressional action on a bill described as ...

The NPR report says that computerized systems used to determine Medicaid benefits have a documented history of errors. The article links recent increases in system p...

An opinion piece in The Guardian by Lateefah Simon and Guillermo Mayer reports that the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) announced a regulatory change that, a...

The Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) released a written opinion concluding that the 1999 Supreme Court decision in Olmstead v. LC does not impose a...

Secretary of Education Linda McMahon marked the 50th anniversary of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), noting the law now serves more than 8 mil...

Special education teachers nationwide are increasingly using artificial intelligence tools to reduce paperwork and create individualized education program (IEP) docu...

PBS NewsHour published a profile titled "Darline Graham's career centered disability. Now she could help shape national policy." The piece states that Graham's caree...

Children with autism are at significantly higher risk of drowning, with a 2017 Columbia University study finding they are about 160 times more likely than other chil...

Victor Saldaño, convicted in Texas in 1996 of murder during a robbery, has been evaluated by multiple experts and by the Texas Office of Capital Forensic Writs as me...

The CBS News article explains that federal disability benefits (such as SSDI) are largely protected from most private creditors, though collectors can still contact ...