People with intellectual and developmental disabilities often face difficulty accessing needed organ transplants, but now a ...

Just weeks after the U.S. House approved billions in cuts to Medicaid, the Senate is considering chopping the program even ...

A new documentary highlighting the experiences of the millions of paid and family caregivers across the nation is set to premiere.

Disability advocates are suing after the Trump White House abruptly stopped including sign language interpreters at press ...

In a ruling with broad implications, the Supreme Court said unanimously that claims of disability discrimination at schools ...

The National Institutes of Health is making $50 million available to study autism, but many researchers in the field are ...

The case was brought by the parents of Ava Tharpe, a Minnesota teenager who has a severe form of epilepsy known as Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome. She is unable to attend school in the morning because her ...

There are a record number of students with disabilities in the nation’s schools. New data shows that there were 7.5 million children ages 3 to 21 served under the Individuals with Disabilities ...

President Barack Obama signed legislation Tuesday requiring the federal government to replace the term “mental retardation” with “intellectual disability” in many areas of government. The measure ...