Senate voted Thursday to advance two bills that advocates say would make it easier for people with disabilities to navigate the criminal justice system. The House is scheduled to vote ...

Putting more than $3,500 people who depend on these services in nursing homes would hurt families and cost taxpayers. | Opinion ...

Virginia legislators took a first step toward protecting people with intellectual or developmental disabilities who may not ...

Connecticut has launched the Yellow Envelope Initiative, a voluntary program designed to help people with disabilities feel safe and heard when interacting with first responders.

Systems weren’t built for neurodiversity. This post shows how psychology helps us shift from compliance to belonging for ...

A mother notices that her four-year-old son is not speaking like his other cousins close to his age. He does not always respond when called, speaks in single words, and sometimes repeats a word ...

WASHINGTON – Disability rights groups fear a death penalty case before the Supreme Court could have implications for the intellectually disabled far beyond the criminal context. The justices are ...

FORT WAYNE — Stuart D. Jones wrote and recently published a memoir about his older brother Stephen who was differently abled than some other people. In conversation, Jones, who lives in Fort Wayne, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday struggled over how courts should decide borderline cases of whether convicted murderers are intellectually disabled and should be shielded from ...

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 ...

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 ...