Commentary: Changes signal a move back to when many people with disabilities were confined in horrific conditions and ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Alice Wong, a disability rights activist and author whose independence and writing inspired others, has died ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

Born with muscular dystrophy, she received a MacArthur “Genius” grant in 2024 for her decades of calling attention to the ...

Parents of students with disabilities have long seen federal civil rights complaints as their last, best hope of ensuring ...

When Ari Ne’eman heard Robert F. Kennedy Jr. call autism an “epidemic” that “destroys families,” Ne’eman felt like he had stepped into a time machine — heading in the wrong direction. It was during an ...

Andy Washburn has been in *** wheelchair for 20 years. He knows what it's like to learn to live with *** disability. Washburn works at the Granite State Independent Living Foundation to help others ...

The Ford Foundation made history last year when it announced it was focusing its grant making on equality. Now one of the nation’s wealthiest and oldest foundations is making history in a new way: It ...

Activists say climate change is a disability rights issue. It was more than 90 degrees in Moranda Rasmussen's Portland, Oregon, apartment during a historic heat wave late last month when the ...

The U.S. Department of Justice said it would be investigating if the ban discriminates against people with disabilities.

The data has come from a series of national surveys and provides insights into the lives of those with a disability.