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Rosie O'Donnell is bringing attention to the transformative role that service dogs can play for young people with disabilities in a new documentary.
Autism advocates are pushing back after U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that kids on the spectrum will never have a job, play baseball, go on a date and more.
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Outside the only facility in the country known to use electric shock devices to address behaviors in people with disabilities, former residents are speaking out and hoping to end the practice.
Federal officials are releasing new data showing that the estimated number of U.S. children with autism has increased once again.
The nation's top health official is promising to determine by this fall why autism rates have surged in recent decades.
Hundreds of people with developmental disabilities in one state want to leave institutional settings for the community, records show. In some cases they wait for years with no end in sight.
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A major home furnishings retailer is introducing a new line of products designed to make life easier for people with disabilities.
Federal lawmakers are seeking answers from the U.S. Department of Education amid efforts to shutter the agency and reassign "special needs" programs elsewhere.
With a Guinness World Records adjudicator on hand, an organization that provides services for individuals with autism sought to do something for the very first time, all in the name of awareness.
Families, nursing facilities and home health agencies rely on foreign-born workers to do jobs that are demanding and hard to fill, but anti-immigration policies threaten to cut a key source of labor.
Disability advocates are suing over "reckless and devastating" changes imposed by the Trump administration that they say are undermining Social Security's ability to serve beneficiaries.
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With only about 300 new college graduates entering the deaf education workforce across the country each year, competition is stiff.
Mass firings at a federal agency supporting community living efforts for people with disabilities are fueling concerns that funding will be disrupted and programs could be forced to close.
As politicians demand that more Medicaid recipients work, many people with disabilities say their state programs' income and asset caps force them to limit work hours or turn down promotions.
