Jacksonville Journal-Courier on MSNOpinion

Commentary: When dehumanization becomes policy: Ableist language and the quiet violence of power — George Cassidy Payne

Commentary: People with disabilities want respect, acceptance, and access to services that allow them to thrive. Degrading ...
New Hampshire Bulletin

State senators to file legislation addressing abuse and neglect in NH’s disability care system

State Sen. David Rochefort, a Littleton Republican, said he and the state’s legislative staff are in the process of drafting ...
Reuters

US Supreme Court wrestles with death row inmate's intellectual disability ruling

WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court grappled on Wednesday with a bid by Alabama officials to pursue the execution of an inmate convicted of a 1997 murder who a lower court found to ...
The Hill

Supreme Court mulls intellectual disability limits in death penalty cases

The Supreme Court on Wednesday grappled with where the line should be drawn on intellectual disability when the death penalty is on the table in a case that could make it harder for convicted killers ...
The New York Times

Supreme Court Grapples With Death Penalty Case on Intellectual Disability

The case involves an Alabama man who challenged his death sentence after a murder conviction because of his varying results in a series of I.Q. tests. By Ann E. Marimow Reporting from Washington The ...
Star Tribune

Opinion | America is abandoning people with disabilities

For half a century, the U.S. has been achieving one of the most important civil rights victories most Americans have never heard of: closing the large institutions that once warehoused people with ...
Mother Jones

Alabama Wants to Lower the Bar for Executing Disabled People—if SCOTUS Lets It

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Hamm v. Smith, a death ...
Disability Scoop

Supreme Court To Weigh How Intellectual Disability Is Defined

Disability advocates are speaking out as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to take on a case that hinges on whether a diagnosis of intellectual disability should be based on more than an IQ score. The ...
KQED

Following Medicaid Cuts, Californians With Intellectual, Developmental Disabilities Face Uncertain Future

A fall-themed Snoopy jazz playlist hums throughout the art studio, rising just above the soft scratching of brushes on canvas. One person uses purple paint to carefully outline Squidward, his fourth ...
Forbes

Supporting Older Adults With Intellectual Disabilities: A Growing Imperative For Leaders

People with intellectual disabilities, such as those with Down syndrome or fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, have historically had shorter life expectancies than the general population, but data from a ...
Yale Environment 360

New initiative focuses on health care for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities

It all started with a manikin. When training her Yale School of Nursing (YSN) students in clinical skills, Christine Rodriguez will often use the human-shaped models in simulated health care ...
Fox 23

Proposed federal Medicaid cuts may impact adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities

OWASSO, Okla. — A New Leaf said that new, proposed cuts to federal Medicaid may impact people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. They said access to community-based services like the ...