Disability advocates warn that staffing cuts and organizational upheaval at the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) are undermining the Office for Civil Rights’ (OCR) capacity to enforce federal ...
A one-of-a-kind museum chronicling disability history is reopening after a five-year hiatus in a new, bigger space that's ...
A new bill would prohibit discrimination based on a parent's disabilities. Some disability rights advocates are uniting behind an anti-discrimination bill. Senate Bill 26 would preent disabled parents ...
Last year, Republican attorneys general in 17 states sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), asking courts to declare Section 504 unconstitutional. Section 504 is part of the ...
Dozens of NYU students and faculty convened last week for a hands-on lecture and discussion series about civil rights and ...
Disability advocates warn that the renewed use of a harmful term risks reviving stigma against people with intellectual ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Shimla, is a premier institution dedicated to advancing legal education, research, and policy discourse in India. Established with the objective ...