The Home Modification Program was recently announced by State Rep. Maurice West (D-Rockford). This program offers grant funding to help people with disabilities make changes to their homes so they can ...

New research suggests that culturally relevant and bilingual training advocacy programs like FIRME empower parents to ...

About 60,000 children with developmental disabilities qualify for a free Illinois program that provides speech, physical therapy, and other services. It's called "early intervention" and can be a game ...

The Plan to Achieve Self-Support (PASS) program, orchestrated by the Social Security Administration, is a beacon of hope for ...

In the fall of 2023, the UAB School of Health Professions launched an undergraduate program in Disability Studies and Rehabilitation Science. This year, the program unveiled a minor option to the ...

Beginning in the fall semester, students in the Georgetown University College of Arts & Sciences will have the option to declare a major in disability studies. The major will build on the program’s ...

A $1.9 million grant from the Department of Education will spur expansion of a support program for students with intellectual disabilities at two Kansas-based institutions. The University of Kansas ...

Veterans’ advocates, a top government watchdog and senators in both parties on Wednesday denounced a Washington Post investigation that revealed exaggeration and fraud in the government’s $193 billion ...

The Trump administration wants to eliminate the nation’s university centers on developmental disabilities and rethink the way Individuals with Disabilities Education Act programs are funded, but a new ...

As federal lawmakers stare down a deadline to fund the government, they appear poised to reject a Trump administration effort to make big changes to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and ...

Republicans’ hostility to Social Security in general has been well-documented over the years. Less widely recognized is their antagonism for one component of the program: disability coverage. As a ...