Since 1987, March has been designated Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month in the US. This month recognizes individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and the barriers ...
March is Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month, a time to highlight individuals with DD, celebrate diversity, and advocate for disability rights.
Nancy Jensen believes she’d still be living in an abusive group home if it wasn’t shut down in 2004 with the help of the Disability Rights Center of Kansas, which for decades has received federal ...
For decades, people with developmental disabilities have been segregated, institutionalized, and stripped of dignity and human rights. Although strides have been made, thousands remain confined within ...
A feature film is in the works about a prominent activist known as the “mother of the disability rights movement.” Apple Original Films said it is making a movie about Judy Heumann who was ...
In his homeschool curriculum, 12-year-old Luke Lunday is learning about Section 504, a cornerstone of disability rights.
One in five people reading this has a disability. Some try to avoid that label at all costs; for others, it provides a right to participation in the community and success at school and in the ...
A nonprofit organization serving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities has filed a class-action lawsuit against the Maryland Department of Health on behalf of people who say their ...
Disability Rights New Jersey, a legal advocacy group that serves people with mental illness and developmental disabilities, announced it has suspended most of its work for the next two weeks while it ...
© 2025 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. All Rights Reserved. Georgia disability rights advocates are sounding the alarm about a change the U.S. Department of Energy ...
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 ...