The state placed a terminally ill child on a multi-year waitlist. Disability advocates fear the state’s recent waitlist ...
Lamont backed off the CFC proposal following a meeting with several disability rights advocates in early April. The state’s ...
Florida's Agency for Persons with Disabilities (APD) offers home-based services designed to keep individuals with ...
After losing her legs, a New York Times food writer began to feel like a tourist in her home city. So, facing her fears, she ...
Thousands of Florida children and adults with severe developmental disabilities are qualified to receive home-based services ...
Between fiscal years 2018 and 2024, about 14% of the prisoners who applied for medical parole were granted release.
'I was told by an occupational therapist that it would be best that I stayed where I was because I'd be waiting ten years for ...
For Vancouver’s Mark Cody, 44, life was once confined to the parts of his apartment that he could physically reach. Cody lost the use of his legs after a missile strike while in Baghdad, Iraq. He ...
Tyler King, 23, relies on home health nurses and his aging grandparents for daily care following a bicycle accident. Without ...
The bill aims to lower single-family home prices. But it would inadvertently endanger companies that provide housing for some people with disabilities.
SPRINGFIELD — Organizations seeking to create community living arrangements for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities say local zoning laws in Illinois are “discriminatory” and are ...
FORT WORTH, Texas -- In his homeschool curriculum, 12-year-old Luke Lunday is learning about Section 504, a cornerstone of disability rights. Championed by disability rights activist Judy Heumann, ...