In NJ, people with disabilities face indignity, missed diagnoses, barriers to health care

NJ's health care system is poorly equipped to deal with the distinctive needs of people with disabilities. The consequences ...
Healio

Q&A: Better support can improve inpatient psychiatric care for patients with IDD

Patients with intellectual and developmental disabilities make up a disproportionate share of individuals occupying long-stay ...

Cities Across the U.S. Are Putting Robots to Work

Arapahoe Libraries, a public library system in Colorado, plans to deploy a four-wheeled robot at a new co-working facility in ...
New York Post

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson argues for race-based redistricting, citing the Americans with Disabilities Act: ‘They’re disabled’

Liberal Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on Wednesday compared efforts to draw congressional districts along racial lines to the way disabled people were granted easier access to buildings ...
MSNBC

Trump's mass firings strike a hammer blow against Americans with disabilities

Over the weekend, the Trump administration fired almost all employees in the Department of Education’s Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services. The mass dismissals were part of ...

Experiences of disability after 50: Poll looks at self-identity and help with health care visits

Most people over 50 were already adults when the Americans with Disabilities Act took effect in 1992 and transformed the ...
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The Outdoor Americans with Disabilities Act Is a Good Idea, But is Based on a Lie

Though it sounds like the Outdoor Americans with Disabilities Act has good intentions, the way it's drafted, and who drafted it, will only serve developers, extractive industries, and those who'd do ...
Times-Standard

How Humboldt County residents with disabilities can vote

There are a spread of tools and methods voters with disabilities can use for the upcoming Nov. 4 special election in Humboldt County, where Californians will weigh in on a single proposition. Changes ...
RealClearPolitics

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Likens Black Voters To Disabled Americans: "They Don't Have Equal Access"

Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson at a Supreme Court hearing on whether Louisiana congressional districts are racially gerrymandered. SUPREME COURT ASSOCIATE JUSTICE KETANJI BROWN ...
Yahoo

Trump plan would limit disability benefits for older Americans

The Trump administration is preparing a plan that will make it harder for older Americans to qualify for Social Security disability payments, part of an overhaul of the federal safety net for poor, ...
ProPublica

Disabled Idaho Students Lack Access to Playgrounds and Lunchrooms. Historic $2 Billion Funding Will Do Little to Help.

At an elementary school in southwest Boise, Idaho, in the fall of 2020, children in pre-K went to their recess on the playground, laughing and climbing ladders to reach the slide. One 3-year-old boy ...
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 ...