With a pair of new hires and recent comments, advocates say the Trump administration appears to be actively laying the ...

One of the nation's most well-known people with autism is being honored alongside notables like famed director Steven ...

For the first time ever, a wheelchair user traveled above the Kármán line, the internationally recognized boundary of space.

As federal officials begin to outline more stringent Medicaid eligibility rules, worries are running high about what the ...

The Trump administration is pushing back on a lawsuit seeking to ensure that sign language interpreters are included at White House events by suggesting that the accommodation is incompatible with the ...

Access to special accounts that allow individuals with disabilities to save without losing out on government benefits will soon expand dramatically and people with the accounts will be able to save ...

After President Donald Trump used the word “retarded” recently, social media posts including the term tripled, fueling a trend that has disability advocates on edge. A new report finds that a ...

As the Trump administration takes sweeping steps to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education, the agency is still deciding what the future holds for special education. The Education Department said ...

With financial pressures mounting, disability service providers across the country are increasingly weighing whether to cut more programs and they say that in-home supports are among their most ...

Efforts to gut the U.S. Department of Education’s special education office and move the program to another agency are already causing “immediate harm” to students with disabilities, advocates warn.

The U.S. Department of Education is in talks to move oversight of special education programs to another federal agency. An Education Department official said this week that the agency is working to ...

Layoffs at the U.S. Department of Education will leave no more than a handful of staffers in the agency’s special education office, jeopardizing oversight of the nation’s programs for students with ...