Bob Kafka was an organizer with ADAPT (American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today), a group which advocates for policy ...

Disability rights advocates warn that a pending Supreme Court of the United States case could reshape how intellectual ...

Is an intellectual disability a condition, or a number on an IQ test? Here's why an Alabama death penalty case at the Supreme ...

The Trump administration is trying to slash access to lawyers who defend the rights of Americans with disabilities, advocates ...

The Trump administration proposed cuts for state-based legal services for disabled people, as rights advocates say DOJ pushed ...

Can one number determine the destiny of access for millions of Americans with intellectual disabilities? This is what is at ...

Earlier this month, the disability community lost an icon. Judy Heumann, who dedicated her life to changing the legal landscape for, and improving the lives of people with disabilities, died on March ...

Every July, during Disability Pride Month, disabled people and disability communities struggle with the same fundamental question. Are things really a lot better now for disabled people than they were ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

BOSTON — Paul Spooner, a longtime advocate for people with disabilities who had been active on Beacon Hill for decades, died unexpectedly on Saturday, the organization he led announced. He was 67.

When I read about disability rights advocates who accept or silently condone abortion, or when I look at pro-life materials and find almost nothing on the disabled, I cringe. Both disability rights ...

Kirby Lambert Shaw, a fixture in Hawaii's disability rights movement and head of the state's Disability and Communication Access Board, died Nov. 22 in Honolulu at age 66. For more than 30 years he ...