You’re reading your child’s IEP, evaluation report, or behavior plan and suddenly you’re stuck on a phrase that feels ...
When we want to go to the store, most of us lace up our sneakers, grab our car keys and head out the door. But for people with intellectual disabilities living in residential group homes and supported ...
The intersection of identities is both a source of pride and challenges experienced by many Americans today, and for 61 million people, that includes living with a disability. For those living with a ...
The pandemic has revealed some truths: A lack of mental health providers to sufficiently meet the needs of those in crisis (including providers of color); and the stress that COVID-19 has introduced ...
Although the home environment is known to influence behavior problems in children with developmental disabilities (DD), the precise contributions of specific domains remained unquantified, hindering ...
Whether disparities in disability identification in U.S. elementary schools are currently occurring is an important question to answer. Most of the available work has been unable to compare students ...
The judge had so much to weigh, it seemed. Declarations from the psychiatrist and therapist saying no, not yet: Ryan Morris is still vulnerable, adjusting to a new home with his biological family for ...
A school is not supposed to suspend or expel a student if their behavior stems from their disability. Education attorneys consider that to be disability discrimination. "I do feel like he was ...
Advocates say Arizonans with intellectual and developmental disabilities are getting shortchanged by a crisis response system that lacks the training to meet their needs. Too often, the mental health ...
Maine unnecessarily segregates children with behavioral health disabilities in hospitals, residential facilities and a state-run juvenile detention facility, the U.S. Department of Justice announced ...
According to the Justice Department, Oklahoma unnecessarily institutionalizes adults with behavioral health disabilities in the Oklahoma County area, in violation of Title II of the Americans with ...