SPARC, a nonprofit that provides day programs for adults with disabilities, honored Loudoun County Chair Phyllis Randall, ...

On December 3, the Department of Labor issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that, if finalized, would eliminate 14(c), a provision of the Fair Labor Standards Act that allows some employers—mostly ...

In rural Hendry County, Trailways Camp offers disabled adults joy, rest and a place to be something special in a world that ...

The contention is over a federal law that creates a special minimum wage for disabled workers in extreme circumstances. Most of these workers, who generally could not perform in an ordinary workplace, ...

Last November, I was scrolling mindlessly through my Facebook feed when I saw a post that snapped me to attention. It was a picture of an 18-year-old man named Sam who had just voted—which shouldn’t ...

Illinois says Marklund got ahead of itself in asking to build multiple community-based homes before it had successfully run ...

The letter from the state's disability agency landed like a bombshell. The state-run homes in which Kenneth and Kathy Lamar's severely disabled adult daughter has lived for seven years will be ...

An employee of the Amistad Nursing and Rehabilitation Center walks with a resident on April 1, 2021. Credit: Miguel Gutierrez Jr./The Texas Tribune Texas has been violating federal law for decades by ...

Colleen Lutkevich and Kim Meehan sit on a bench at the Wrentham Developmental Center, which houses residents that are severely developmentally disabled — including Lutkevich's sister. Meehan's sister ...

An 80-year-old mother ended the life of her severely disabled son, who had been bedridden for five decades, out of fear that he would be left with no one to care for him if she were to pass away. The ...

John Scott was rarely spoken of in his family after he was placed in an institution. After a half-century, his youngest ...