44-year-old Antonio Boone says the help he received from the Cuyahoga County Board of Developmental Disabilities forensic unit helped to make his journey through the court system easier - and ...

A registered nurse, Dina Lester left her job working for the state in part over concerns about its poor level of care (Anna Spoerre/Missouri Independent). This story was commissioned by the River City ...

Officials say the five-year 0.85-mill levy for developmental disabilities services is necessary to preserve critical programs ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - A developmentally disabled woman whose throat was slit while living at a local care facility is back in the news. Her father is now taking the facility to federal court. Local 12 ...

A caregiver convicted of patient endangerment was sentenced to a year in prison Wednesday in connection with the death of a ...

CANTON ‒ Alive Now Services — a home personal care business for clients with developmental disabilties — is dead. In November, the Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilties revoked Alive Now's ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - People in Ohio who care for their own developmentally disabled family members are celebrating a "win" on Tuesday. Up until March 25, they've had to attempt to replace themselves as ...

What are intellectual and developmental disabilities? Intellectual disability is a disability characterized by significant limitations in both intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior, which ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- As a child, Victoria Bennett, 28, used to tag along with her father, a photographer who shot photos for the Grace Foundation, an organization committed to support and education ...

OUR NEXT HELPER GIVES PEOPLE LIVING WITH DISABILITIES THE HELP THEY NEED TO LIVE INDEPENDENT, FULFILLED LIVES. SINCE I’VE BEEN HERE, I DIDN’T NEVER KNOW I COULD DO ALL THE THINGS I COULD ACCOMPLISH.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – The closure of the Willowbrook State School and subsequent laws changed the way individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) were housed and cared for, no ...

This story was commissioned by the River City Journalism Fund. After Ronald Scheer was found suffocated to death by the straps of his own wheelchair, an autopsy determined his cause of death was ...