Education Week

More Students With Disabilities Are in General Education Classes. How’s That Working?

The percentage of students who have disabilities and spend a substantial portion of their school day in general education ...
Education Week

Students With Disabilities Are Spending More Time in Mainstream Classes

The number of students with disabilities who spend a substantial portion of their school day in general education classes is ...
Forbes

Learn How Your Company Can Benefit From Providing Workplace Accommodations For Workers With Disabilities

Companies that recognize and value the importance of hiring and retaining employees with disabilities know what is needed to provide a culture and workplace that is accommodating and inclusive. Those ...

People with disabilities are diagnosed with alcohol use disorder at much higher rates than non-disabled people

A new study found that adults with disabilities had more than three times the rate of AUD diagnoses compared with adults ...
STAT

How to ensure the NIH’s decision to recognize people with disabilities as a health disparity population makes a difference

My daughter Katie was born with severe disabilities. She went on to develop profound autism, attention deficit disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. The hardest part for her is knowing that she ...

Coffee shop in Massachusetts that employed people with disabilities to close: "Not an easy choice"

Breaking Grounds Cafe, a Peabody, Massachusetts coffee shop known for employing people with disabilities, is closing.
NPR

Remote work opened some doors to workers with disabilities. But others remain shut

For people with disabilities, the increasingly permanent shift to remote work in some industries has been a pandemic perk. More organizations are now offering workplace accommodations, according to a ...
Forbes

Seven Reasons Why Hiring People With Disabilities Is Good For Business

Every day, Americans with disabilities bring their skills and talents to our nation’s workplaces. They perform all types of jobs at all levels, in businesses of all sizes. They are entrepreneurs, ...
The Washington Post

U.S. health care isn’t ready for a surge of seniors with disabilities

The number of older adults with disabilities — difficulty with walking, seeing, hearing, memory, cognition or performing daily tasks such as bathing or using the bathroom — will soar in the decades ...

Trump's actions signal a move toward institutionalizing people with disabilities, advocates warn

Since the 1960s, legislation and court decisions have expanded supports and protections for people with disabilities to go to school with nondisabled peers and to live and work in their communities.
Opinion

Children with disabilities are students, not patients | Opinion

Two hundred thousand Arizona students with disabilities rely on special education. An Arizona father on why the federal government's move is wrong.
CNBC

Employers better supported workers with disabilities in 2021, but can improve

2021 was a prominent year for DE&I efforts across businesses nationwide. Hybrid work not only helped with issues like workplace discrimination, but ushered in a more accessible environment for ...