Parents with any kind of disability are much more likely to have some type of interaction with the child welfare system than other parents. This means they are more likely than other parents to be ...
Parents of students with disabilities have long seen federal civil rights complaints as their last, best hope of ensuring ...
In 2020, Emmaline Yates was pregnant with her third child when her 2-year-old son began to experience intense meltdowns while also losing his ability to babble. Like countless other parents worldwide, ...
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I'm a freelance writer covering gear, parenting and fitness/nutrition. There is no question that product design too often ignores the needs of people with physical disabilities, and baby gear is no ...
Parents of children with developmental disabilities are grappling with uncertainty after Washington County voters rejected a ...
PITTSBURGH — For the two weeks that the Hackneys’ baby girl lay in a Pittsburgh hospital bed weak from dehydration, her parents rarely left her side, sometimes sleeping on the fold-out sofa in the ...
When TaLisha Grzyb met her tutor in college, she had no idea that she was meeting her future husband. “I was always very much focused on education, and even when he asked me out, I sort of told him no ...
The U.S. legal system is not adequately protecting the rights of parents with disabilities, the report says, citing child welfare laws in most states allowing courts to determine that a parent is ...
New research published in the Journal of Social Work has uncovered that there is alarming mistreatment of disabled children ...
Advocates recommend having these conversations early. “I grew up watching kids and adults alike recoil from my brother simply because he looked a little different, and spoke a little differently from ...
The parents of a young man with a neuromuscular disease who died seven days after spinal surgery say they have serious ...