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- Exclusion of student with DS from college class sparks concern
- Obit: Paul Steven Miller, law professor and disability advocate
- US Airways ejects man with wheelchair: ‘Too disabled to fly’
- Georgia settles ADA suit over confinement of people with disabilities
- More colleges welcome students with intellectual disabilities
- Government crackdown on autism ‘therapies’
- Touchdown video seen round the world
- Abortion of surrogate fetus with DS sparks ethics debate
- Columnist: Documentary dismantles stereotypes about DS
- Canadian nonprofit brings innovation to adult living
- $22 million grant to overhaul assessments in special ed
- iPad boosts communication for kids with disabilities
- Heroes? Victims? Or just plain parents …
- Vanderbilt enrolls students with intellectual disabilities
- Autism debate goes to high court
- ‘Monica & David’ premieres Thursday on HBO
- Harris poll: Businesses don’t welcome people with disabilities
- Kathy Ireland calls for end to underfunding of DS research
- President signs technology access measure
- Obama honors girl who inspired ‘Rosa’s law’
- Study: Lack of characters with disabilities on TV
- President signs ‘Rosa’s law’
- ‘Pennhurst Asylum’ attraction opens in former Pa. institution
- House OKs ‘Rosa’s Law’
- ‘Temple Grandin’ a big Emmy winner
- Job prospects dismal for people with disabilities
- Lawsuit: Special Olympics unfairly barred girl with service dog
- Psychologist did pioneering work in autism
- Vanderbilt welcomes students with intellectual disabilities
- Emmy exec: ‘Down Syndrome Girl’ will not air on awards shows
- Hingsburger on ‘R-word’: ‘Tremble when you say it’
- Jennifer Aniston draws fire for saying ‘retard’ on TV
- Advocacy group protests Emmy nod for ‘Down Syndrome Girl’
- Editorial praise for pruning outdated terms from NJ statutes
- Los Angeles theater group showcases abilities
- New Jersey law changes references to people with disabilities
- California community stunned by slaying of man with disabilities
- Bill would improve accessibility for Web, mobile devices
- Longmore helped establish disability study as academic field
- Paul K. Longmore, disability advocate and historian, was 64
- Short takes
- Judge slashes fine in Iowa abuse case
- Senate passes bill to improve web, mobile phone access
- Brad Hennefer highlights the possibilities
- ‘Our homes, not nursing homes,’ disability activists tell Obama
- State shuts care center after autistic man dies in sweltering van
- Madison inclusion policy draws students with disabilities
- Court: Chipotle restaurants violated ADA
- Australian state sees tripling of DS-related abortions
- Survey: ADA has not improved quality of life
- Selected coverage of ADA anniversary
- EEOC: Less than 1 percent of federal workers have disabilities
- Obama signs order to increase federal disability hiring
- ADA brings little progress in the workplace
- Tom Harkin: ADA is about ‘the right to live in the world’
- Despite ADA, much of Boston remains inaccessible
- Twenty years later, ADA still sparks debate
- Anne Ford: ADA brought disabilities out of the shadows
- Columnist: ADA brings progress, but U.S. lags on jobs
- Congressman: More work needed to achieve ADA’s promise
- Opinion: ‘Shameful wall of exclusion’ must come down
- Column: Despite ADA, challenges remain
- Writer celebrates ADA’s legacy of civil rights
- DOJ seeks improved Internet access for people with disabilities
- ‘We should close them all’
- Deep state budget cuts put people with disabilities at risk
- People with disabilities seek to open their own businesses
- Clara Claiborne Park, 86; Author raised awareness of autism
- Districts strain to serve students with multiple, severe disabilities
- 2 states get federal OK to cut special ed funding
- City to drivers with disabilities: Pay up
- Parents of student with DS seek removal of school textbook
- CA appeals court limits insulin injections in schools
- LA schools chief defends remark about special ed, ‘regular kids’
- Reporters find 250 cases of abuse in Texas facilities
- Pelosi heckled by disability activists
- Commentary: Georgia must end seclusion, restraints
- Does special ed ‘take from regular kids’? Readers react
- Complaint box: Whatever happened to tact?
- Former Sequenom exec pleads guilty
- LA school district to close 200 special education classrooms
- District pays $5 million in alleged abuse of students with autism
- Rosa’s law regarded as non-controversial
- Massachusetts families fight to keep institution open
- Home services disappearing as states slash Medicaid
- As LA drops summer special ed for adults, a teacher objects
- ‘What would you do?’ Reactions to staged abuse of clerk with DS
- Discredited autism doctor vows to continue research
- Actors share disabilities with their characters
- Vicky Solomonson, 49; Humphrey’s grandchild had DS
- Nine charged in Boston assault on teen with disabilities
- Feds: Company cheated workers, violated ADA in Atalissa case
- Feds sue Arkansas over segregation of people with disabilities
- Advocates cry foul over special ed funding loophole
- Op-ed: Daughter is ‘worth every tear’
- Writer with disability says unsolicited advice isn’t welcome
- Court reverses conviction of teen with intellectual disabilities
- NJ to create registry of abusive caregivers
- Virginia high school uses sports to foster inclusion
- Asner, parents lash pending special ed cutbacks in LA
- ‘Monica & David’ takes Tribeca’s top documentary honors
- Novartis: Drug may ease Fragile X
- ‘Glee’ offers wry view of bulimia, Down syndrome
- NYC plan: Shift kids with disabilities to mainstream schools
- First degree murder verdict in case of student with Asperger’s
- Advocates urge ‘disability rights champion’ on high court
- Columnist: Workers with disabilities are key to firm’s success
- Obit: Stanley I. Greenspan, creator of ‘Floortime’ method
- Hundreds of disability advocates rally at Kansas statehouse
- Additional items for Thursday, April 28, 2010
- Students with disabilities get internships on Capitol Hill
- Parents sue over adoption of Russian boy with fetal alcohol syndrome
- States lag in moving people out of nursing homes
- 91 ADAPT protesters arrested at White House
- FCC sees problems with web access for people with disabilities
- ‘American Idol’ contestant builds awareness for Tourette’s
- Quebec to re-examine school inclusion for kids with disabilities
- In New Orleans, kids with disabilities underserved by charters
- School district seeks help in mediating special ed disputes
- Twins’ new ballpark gets high praise for disability access
- Protesters say Rochester buses bypass people with wheelchairs
- Inclusive school schedule shuts girl out of Special Olympics
- Opinion: Too many adoptive families are kept in the dark
- Doctor loses license after mixing up twins in DS abortion
- Tactile erotica?
- Experts: Poor job prospects for people with disabilities
- iPad seen as great tool for kids with disabilities
- Does mom with disabilities have right to see her children?
- Columnist: Applause for mom who took stand againt DS jokes
- Mom seeks end to ‘war’ that divides autism community
- Review: Narrators, characters with autism add something extra
- New theme park is designed for people with disabilities
- Column: Adults with autism face major obstacles, not much help
- Op-ed: ‘Happy Birthday, Baby Doe’
- Federal audit finds lapses in Ohio’s special education
- McCarthy closing autism school amid split with Carrey
- Adoptive mom returns boy to Russia — alone
- Middle-aged Americans report lots more mobility impairments
- Idaho removes ‘retarded’ from state statutes
- Court: Sperm bank can’t be sued under products liability law
- Wait times for disability claim hearings vary widely, report says
- Employers: Pay hike could cut jobs for those with disabilities
- Mind like a pinball machine? Maybe it’s adult ADHD
- Advocates observe Autism Awareness Day
- Study: U.S. lags in hiring, supporting workers with disabilities
- Special education overhaul promised in Chicago
- Insurance industry backs off on pre-existing condition coverage
- ‘Class Act’ expands options for long-term care
- Pre-existing condition coverage in jeopardy
- Opinion: Coverage of pre-existing condition ‘sets daughter free’
- Ne’eman nomination blocked; Autism views spark controversy
- Maryland schools open sports to kids with disabilities
- Study: Internet provides lifeline for people with chronic illness
- Dental clinic closing means thousands could lose access to care
- Parents: NY special education programs squeezed by charters
- Report: Problems persist in Texas institutions
- Paralympic Games set records, open doors
- Students seek more inclusion for peers with disabilities
- Researchers: Down syndrome could unlock mysteries of aging
- Paralympic Games called ‘best ever’
- Paralympics icon Hansen says Games have come a long way
- Shriver stresses humanity of people with intellectual disabilities
- Editorial: As vaccines win court case, parents should move on
- Column: Paralympians deserve nationally broadcast finale
- Paralympic games aim to change perceptions
- Canada ratifies UN disability rights treaty
- In 3 cases, court rejects autism-vaccine link
- UK watchdog: TV channels have the right to air ‘R-word’
- ‘You just don’t look disabled’
- Guilty plea in Texas ‘fight club’ brings 4-year jail term
- And now for something completely different …
- In Michigan, no more diplomas for students in special education
- Judge orders NY to move residents out of ‘adult homes’
- TV shows feature characters with Asperger’s
- A mom’s story: Mixed emotions over fixing son’s cleft lip
- Feds: Many states don’t regulate seclusion, restraint in schools
- Columnist asks: ‘Do toxins cause autism?’
- Feds probe school’s use of shocks on kids with disabilities
- Skier McKeever is set to make Olympic history
- Probe: LA charter schools not accessible to kids with disabilities
- This time, a ‘Family Guy’ actor agrees with Palin
- Disability rights leaders skeptical of Palin
- Virginia delegate fights controversy over abortion remarks
- Google execs convicted over bullying video
- Family of girl with CP to Canada: Let us stay
- Tribute to Kevin Pearce, snowboarder with brain injury
- More Catholic schools serving students with disabilities
- Opinion: Connecticut institution should be closed
- Italy pledges to prosecute backers of Facebook hate page
- Opinion: It’s time to stop saying ‘retard’
- Legislator apologizes, says abortion remark was misconstrued
- Opinion: Palin doesn’t speak for people with disabilities
- Legislator says kids with disabilities are God’s punishment
- Opinion: ‘Family Guy’ joke was hateful
- Opinion: Actress Friedman is ‘a role model’
- We must do more to improve disability hiring, says U.S. official
- Video of Andrea Friedman: Palin ‘didn’t even get the joke’
- Commentators weigh in on ‘R-word’ campaign
- Advice for parents who wonder: Is it a learning disability?
- Debate goes on: Is there anything funny about disability?
- Temple Grandin explains it all
- Group works to include people with disabilities in census count
- Opinion: ‘Disability-free world may not be a better place’
- ‘Family Guy’ coverage keeps rolling in
- ‘Family Guy’ actress: The joke’s on Palin
- Discredited anti-vaccine doctor Wakefield quits autism center
- Scientists: Testing curbs some genetic diseases
- Sarah Silverman, in her own words
- Writer: ‘Family Guy’ casting shows sensitivity
- Controversial comic to appear in LA Down syndrome benefit
- ‘Family Guy’ and ‘Down Syndrome Girl’ top Hulu popularity lists
- Writers: Palins are right about ‘Family Guy’
- One mom’s view: There’s no such thing as a perfect child
- Bill Maher jokes about Trig Palin
- Palin again attacks Emanuel and ‘Family Guy,’ defends Limbaugh
- Mom defends ‘Family Guy’ view of disability
- Sarah Palin vs. ‘Family Guy’: Who’s right?
- Informal WP survey finds broad opposition to ‘R-word’ campaign
- Palin fires back at ‘Family Guy’ over Down syndrome gags
- Fox’s ‘Family Guy’ tweaks Down syndrome, Palin
- Silverman’s TED routine zings with frequent use of ‘retarded’
- Shriver: ‘Retard’ is the language of bigotry
- Columnist: ‘Defending the ‘r-word’ is the defense of bullies’
- Op-ed: Don’t ban the word ‘retard’
- Columnist: ‘Palin should beware of exploiting youngest child’
- Writer: This time, offensive language is personal
- Commentator slams Palin ‘hypocrisy’ over ‘R-word’
- Editorial: Remove ‘hurtful’ language from Idaho law
- Disability advocates plead with Kansas to restore Medicaid cuts
- Could removal of Asperger’s diagnosis limit special ed access?
- CA cuts imperil services for people with disabilities
- Commentary: Let Emanuel deal with health care, not the ‘R-word’
- Commentary: Asperger’s diagnosis no longer needed
- Senators seek to probe birth defects, dump site
- Around the web: Writers respond to ‘R-word’ controversy
- Actor says ‘R-word’ is just as bad as racial, ethnic, sexist slurs
- In downturn, jobs scarcer than ever for people with disabilities
- Editorial: Give citizens with disabilities ‘the dignity they deserve’
- Colbert: ‘Palin is a f — ing retard. Get it?’
- In response to your questions …
- SNL skit lampoons Emanuel, ‘R-word,’ Palin
- The Arc to Limbaugh: Meet with us
- Palin withdraws criticism of Limbaugh over ‘R-word’
- Critical praise for HBO’s ‘Temple Grandin’
- More colleges serving students with intellectual disabilities
- Shriver says he’s ‘incredulous’ at Limbaugh’s use of ‘R-word’
- Editorial: Emanuel was right to sign ‘R-word’ pledge
- Columnist on Emanuel and ‘R-word’: Get over it
- Palin, Limbaugh skirmish over ‘R-word’ — or do they?
- ‘R-word’ gaffe points up bigger problems for Emanuel
- Palin ire over ‘R-word’ spills over into Texas gubernatorial race
- Emanuel controversy fuels politically active self-advocates
- Columnist: Rahm Emanuel ‘picked on the wrong people’
- Around the web: Coverage of advocates’ meeting with Emanuel
- ABC: Emanuel remark spotlights debate over language
- Special Olympics: Shriver didn’t accept Emanuel’s apology
- Editorial: Lancet waited too long to retract autism-vaccine study
- Commentary: Criticism of Emanuel is just ‘political correctness’
- Arc CEO: Emanuel’s private apology to Shriver is not enough
- White House confirms Emanuel used ‘R-word’ slur
- Lancet retracts autism paper; Editor says he was ‘deceived’
- Commentary: It’s time to retire the ‘R-word’
- New Orleans students with disabilities face unequal treatment
- In Oregon, celebrating an end to the ‘horrors’ of institutions
- California plans to close institution for people with disabilities
- Temple Grandin: Claire Danes ‘brilliant in playing me’
- Sundance film features leading man with Down syndrome
- Ad campaign uses humor to promote disability hiring
- Opinion: Open charter doors to students with disabilities
- Doctor censured over research claiming vaccine-autism link
- Arc condemns comment attributed to Obama aide, seeks apology
- Shriver to Emanuel: Let’s work together to end ‘R-word’
- From an embattled White House aide, the ‘R-word’
- Ohio districts diverting special-ed funds for other uses
- Riders with disabilities claim shoddy transit service in Detroit
- Oakland settles disability rights lawsuit over disaster preparedness
- Op-ed: Regulation not needed to close ‘digital divide’
- Special ed official inspired by exclusion of childhood friend
- New magazine targets those with disabilities
- ACLU: School violating girl’s rights by banning service dog
- Sequenom settles lawsuit for $14 million plus stock
- Judi Chamberlin, advocated for people with mental illnesses
- Editorial: Let kids bring service animals to school
- Industrial chemical marketed for use on kids with autism
- Column: Dr. King’s work benefitted people with disabilities
- Advocates settle access lawsuit for $12 million
- Britain apologizes to Thalidomide survivors
- Report: Ailing kids face lengthy waits for medical care
- UK’s Tories plan to help people with disabilities join Parliament
- Infant with disabilities is subject of dark off-Broadway comedy
- Universities decline to use Kindle amid accessibility lawsuits
- ‘A future without Down syndrome?’
- Wisconsin rejects use of special ed funds for seclusion rooms
- Columnist asks: Should Down syndrome be cured?
- Seattle seeks to limit disabled parking, cites abuse
- ‘What about George?’
- Man sentenced to 10 years in beating of vulnerable adult
- ‘To us, she was Emily’
- Editorial: Churches should embrace people with disabilities
- Massachusetts special education costs soaring
- Geneticist: Demand for ‘designer babies’ will rise dramatically
- Wheelchair users offer praise, critiques for ‘Avatar’
- Funding woes force sharp cutbacks at Special Olympics
- Study finds no link between autism, environment
- Critic’s take on disability themed movie: ‘There will be tears’
- Disability job bias claims surge to record high
- School districts redirect special ed funds as advocates cry foul
- Editorial: Assure lives of dignity to those with disabilities
- Illinois program showcases personal disability stories
- Editorial: ‘Let family of girl with CP stay in Canada’
- Court to decide: Does disability make mom an unfit parent?
- Harkin: Scant penalty for firms that underpay disabled workers
- Controversial advocate with Asperger’s nominated to federal post
- Where have all the copy editors gone?
- Ruling: Doctor-assisted suicide legal in Montana
- Historic first for musicians from Ohio State School for the Blind
- Student with disabilities wins fight to live in college dorm
- Column: ‘No way to refer to the vulnerable’
- Column: ‘A CLASS Act deserves support’
- Artist tries to induce onstage epileptic seizure; Debate ensues
- Holiday gifts can jeopardize benefits for people with disabilities
- Murder case highlights danger of mixing felons, vulnerable adults
- Officials: Ottawa suspension report used skewed data
- In Ottawa, suspensions rising for kids with special needs
- UK report: Special education system needs ‘radical overhaul’
- Companies working to improve web accessibility
- Administration sides with disability community on rights treaty
- Speech-generating iPhone app ranks in Apple’s top 30
- Texting opens up new world for teen with autism
- Autism research in Time’s top ten medical breakthroughs
- States do little to stop restraint of students with disabilities
- Editorial: Help needed for families gripped by autism, violence
- Op-ed: MD is wary of relying on drugs to fight autism
- Long term disability coverage stirring health care debate
- ‘Avatar’: Big wheels keep on turnin’ ….
- Mom asks: Should I have aborted daughter with CF?
- Commentary: Open doors to actors with disabilities
- Judy Woodruff: Looking for ways to talk about disability
- Financial impact of disability varies among states
- Survey: Caregiving falls to families
- Couple loses bid to sue hospital over baby’s death
- Disability advocates praise new Minneapolis stadium
- Bill aims to protect students from abuse in schools
- Companies say autism can be valuable asset in the workplace
- Girl with impaired vision is ‘Miracle Worker’ understudy
- Elementary, my dear
- ‘The hidden business cost of mental illness’
- Amazon announces plans to modify Kindle
- Study links absences, low achievement in students with disabilities
- Schools see more students with chronic health needs
- Program hones job skills for grads with developmental disabilities
- Disability advocates: Close Canada institutions, improve job access
- Column: Palin’s son transforming her to anti-abortion star
- Georgia district hosts college fair for students with disabilities
- Study: Early intervention makes a big difference
- D.C. parents push for social supports for kids with autism
- Special Olympics: ‘Retard’ as offensive as racial slurs
- UN recruits pop icon to improve life for those with disabilities
- UN says huge obstacles remain for people with disabilities
- ‘Kids with DS stretch their abilities in Toledo Ballet’s program’
- Expert: Schools could be swamped by new wave of disabilities
- More students with disabilities study for bar and bat mitzvahs
- In NJ, a father begs state to spare the most vulnerable
- Hartford denied rights to students with disabilities, state finds
- Models with disabilities seek acceptance on reality show
- Rock band’s goal: Worldwide fame
- MIT prof’s prosthetic limbs blur the boundaries of disability
- Prestigious disability jobs program struggles to stay afloat
- Op-ed: U.S. should stop using the word ‘retarded’
- U.S. study finds prevalence of Down syndrome births up sharply
- ‘Job Crunch Even Harder On People With Disabilities’
- Op-ed: ‘Sarah Palin and Me’
- SI writer: Eunice Shriver deserves recognition
- Woman fights to use adaptive technology during bar exam
- Book: Howie Mandel on OCD, ADHD
- Mother says marijuana saved the life of her son with autism
- Writer: TV show aims to show authentic people with disabilities
- Higher rate of birth defects found with assisted reproduction
- Scientists: Research hijacked to back dubious autism ‘therapies’
- Columnist: ‘Sadly, most people with a learning disability should not have children’
- Documentary asks ‘Can we get married?’
- Pregnant woman with learning disabilities flees to keep baby
- Excerpt from ‘Going Rogue’: Sarah Palin on life with Trig
- Paralympics ends ban on athletes with intellectual disabilities
- Commentary: DS community needs support as much as ‘cure’
- Probe: Many ‘treatments’ for autism are risky, unproven
- Writer wonders: Must we get rid of the word ‘retardation’?
- Google to caption YouTube videos, improving accessibility
- Palin on receiving a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome
- Potential treatment for Down syndrome?
- Researchers: Prosthetic legs give Pistorius unfair advantage
- Parents divided on hypothetical cure for Down syndrome
- Feds sue turkey processor in Atalissa case
- Student with Down syndrome inducted into National Honor Society
- Couple develops iPhone software for monitoring kids with autism
- Op-ed: ‘Wheelchair doesn’t make employee perfect’
- Spike in birth defects prompts questions in Iraq
- Australia blocks man’s immigration, says his disability is costly
- Increasing obesity adds to illness, health care costs: Study
- ‘Rosa’s law’ would end use of term ‘mentally retarded’
- New UK show is ‘Survivor,’ but with disabilities
- Federal bill would replace ‘retardation’ with ‘intellectual disability’
- Law to prohibit misuse of genetic data
- Study finds widespread bullying of children with autism
- Disabilities on the rise among older Americans
- Mom: Performers with disabilities are victims of ‘blacking-up’
- Glee ‘Wheels’ episode is Hulu’s 3rd most popular video
- Opinion: British TV show challenges stereotypes
- Universities reject Kindle, cite inaccessibility
- Another blown chance to hire actor with a disability?
- Experts: UK doctors are underreporting abortions for Down syndrome
- Op-ed: ‘How charming to pillory disabled Gordon Brown’
- Op-ed: ‘Our most vulnerable people deserve a full chance in life’
- Texas students with disabilities face broad use of restraints
- Rosa Monckton: Caregivers driven to the breaking point
- Autism: Insult du jour?
- Editorial: ‘A culturally rich autism’
- Researcher: ‘Don’t be too quick to lump Asperger’s with autism’
- Columnist: ‘Hateful’ language can spur violence against disabled
- Woman shatters stereotypes about Down syndrome
- Column: In celebration of hate crime law
- Hospice program assists parents with prenatal diagnoses
- Opinion: Special ed underfunding causes inequitable treatment
- Columnist: Anti-vaccine activists embody a growing media trend
- UK charity: 9 percent of disabled people say they’re crime targets
- Agencies struggle to find jobs for clients with disabilities
- Proposal to drop Asperger’s label stirs disapproval
- Schools struggle to accommodate kids with diabetes
- Asperger’s diagnosis: On the way out?
- Fashionistas with disabilities explore diverse viewpoint
- Mom’s book honors boy who fought disease, sought peace
- Dance company explores bodies, wheels in motion
- ‘Nonprofit company makes owners wealthy’
- ABC: Down syndrome births down in U.S.
- Mental health advocates push for nursing home reform
- Group criticizes casting for ‘Miracle Worker’
- Advocates protest Halloween ‘Asylum of Terror’
- Journalist Tim Page explores Asperger’s from the inside out
- ‘The human cost of screening for DS’
- Obama signs hate crimes bill
- Artist with autism dazzles with realistic drawing of NY skyline
- In their own words: Perspectives on Down syndrome
- UK doctor advocates ‘opt-in’ system for DS testing
- ‘The upside of Down syndrome’
- ‘Would you abort a baby with Down syndrome?’
- Terminations for DS lower in Ireland, where it is ‘more accepted’
- ‘Surge in DS pregnancies is matched by surge in terminations’
- Axelrods hunt a cure for epilepsy
- Amy Wallace: Vaccine deniers endanger everyone
- In a flu epidemic, who decides who lives or dies?
- Montana teacher’s aides face felony abuse charges
- ‘Sidewalks become battlegrounds’
- Experts: It’s okay for MDs to ‘fire’ patients who decline vaccines
- NY governor says he faces ‘blatant hostility’ over blindness
- Maryland advocates protest $29 million in disability service cuts
- ‘The Geek Defense’
- Study affirms genetic component in autism
- Pushed by DOJ, museums scramble to improve accessibility
- Congress expands hate crime protections to include disabilities
- Glenn Close, family confront stigma of mental illness
- Lawsuits challenge ‘furlough Fridays’ in Hawaii schools
- 1,600 Mississippians on waiting lists for home care
- Social Security must offer notices in Braille, on CDs
- Editorial: ‘Justice for the mentally disabled’
- Fifth suspect convicted in kidnap, torture of disabled man
- Judge halts cuts to in-home services in California
- Sidekick outage hit deaf community hard
- Automakers explore adding digital ‘vroom’ to silent vehicles
- Gallaudet students hail new president
- Experts fear NJ autism plan will dilute care, not enhance it
- California clamps down on abuse of parking placards
- Commentary: Thumbs down on $250 checks for seniors, disabled
- Cheerleaders with disabilities perform with varsity squad
- Advocates to employers: Don’t write off people with autism
- Utah man arrested for chaining boy with disabilities
- Books: Music critic finds relief in Asperger’s diagnosis
- Audit: Mass. home health system leaves vulnerable at risk
- Critics call Obama’s proposed $250 payments ‘pandering’
- New school options for south Florida students with autism
- Boy with Asperger’s ticketed for profanity in school
- Irish advocates: Disability service cuts are short-sighted
- Op-ed: People with Down syndrome surpass expectations
- Advice for Madonna: Lose the ‘R-word’
- Project SEARCH opens doors to employment
- San Francisco adds $2 million to special ed budget
- Firm sells warm feeling along with dog treats
- VA plans to ease disability claims tied to Agent Orange
- Disability activists hope to rebuild ADA coalition
- Letter: Brother’s life brings many blessings
- Disability protesters arrested in Atlanta
- World War II vets caught in disability backlog
- Hearing actor in deaf role prompts protests
- Marlee Matlin offers encouragement
- Report: UK adults with autism condemned to poverty
- Struggles with dyslexia influenced Nobel winner
- Op-ed: Biased actions by group home opponents are illegal
- Fencing on wheels
- Nurses’ medication policy puts students at risk, parents say
- Legislators seek remedy for Fernald abuse
- Disability advocates rally at Georgia capitol
- Advocate: Russia in ‘undeclared war’ against disabled
- British PM discloses eye damage amid controversy
- Dad’s op-ed: ‘Normalizing’ autism is a mixed blessing
- Editorial: People with developmental disabilities ignored in health care debate
- Thousands walk for disability awareness, research, respect
- Fertility treatment babies have heightened risk of disabilities
- New Jersey launches autism registry to improve care
- Families ambivalent over New York group home decision
- Op-ed: ‘Georgia stalls while disabled endure’
- Hate crime law may soon cover people with disabilities
- Supporters say Gaffney shows ‘Never-say-die’ attitude
- Gaffney completes frigid Boston swim to raise DS awareness
- Hundreds rally against Maryland waiting lists
- Canadian cases allege abuse of deaf students in government schools
- Federal judge throws out disability bias suit against Disney
- Advocates: Hawaii furlough plan could harm kids with disabilities
- Sebelius: Administration boosts autism research
- Helen Keller statue unveiled at U.S. Capitol
- Disability PAC seeks apology from Virginia candidate
- Kids with disabilities and H1N1: What to do?
- Federal research will study health benefits of pets
- Mom, daughter challenge conventional thinking about parenting
- Op-ed: Employers’ fears of disability hiring are groundless
- Disability experts: Crime stats confirm what they already knew
- Journalist: Autism misdiagnoses are skewing research data
- Online British documentary follows young adults with disabilities
- Studies say autism incidence is higher than previously thought
- How should doctors deliver a diagnosis of Down syndrome?
- Autism Speaks video ignites controversy
- Federal watchdog: Health care failing those with disabilities
- CA advocates sue to block massive cuts in home care services
- Column: Children’s books should feature kids with disabilities
- President urges employers to welcome workers with disabilities
- Study: People with disabilities 50 percent more likely to be target of violent crime
- Advocates see increase in ‘cyberhate’
- States fear cuts in Medicaid eligibility, benefits
- Op-ed: Congress should keep promise, fund IDEA
- British inquest finds family of disabled girl was hounded to death
- Cheerleaders welcome new member of the squad
- CA schools struggling for creative solutions to autism needs
- Travolta’s autism disclosure prompts support, criticism
- Sears pays $6.2 million to settle disability employment suit
- Surfer Clay Marzo defies labels
- Cleveland may need hundreds more special ed teachers
- Nebraska institution nears loss of federal funding
- State report finds ‘Chicago flunks when it comes to special ed’
- D.C. to pull 170 students with disabilities from private school
- Sequenom fires CEO, research chief after probe of test data
- Actor with Down syndrome wins top Spanish film award
- Spokane paper: ‘Special education squeezes district’
- Business Week blog: ‘Do kids with disabilities strengthen or strain schools?’
- Couple’s new home will serve as universal design lab
- Spinal cord activist shifts focus from cure to care
- Tips for students with disabilities applying to college
- Advocates: PA fails to protect vulnerable adults from abuse
- Audit: Too many veterans face lengthy waits on disability claims
- Home autism detector has doctors concerned
- Leon Eisenberg, autism expert and advocate
- Kennedy: Workers with disabilities are ‘untapped resource’
- Mental health advocate wins MacArthur award
- Travolta acknowledges son’s autism
- England relaxes rules on assisted suicide
- ‘Shocking’ idea: People with autism make good employees
- EEOC: Workplace bias against mental illness is pervasive
- Study backs vaccine safety
- ‘Collision’ in prenatal testing predicted
- More people, like Heigl, adopting kids with disabilities
- Illinois program aims to protect disabled people in emergencies
- Mom: Seclusion room felt like jail cell
- California cuts services for people with disabilities
- Columnist asks readers to see Lucy ‘through loving eyes’
- Virginia group home plan withdrawn amid neighborhood hostility
- Jail time in Texas ‘fight club’ case
- Leaving nursing home for a home of his own
- Mom who shot daughter wrote of abuse by nursing home
- AFL-CIO calls for disability diversity in entertainment
- Adults with autism struggle to find, keep work
- Judge blocks CA service cuts to disabled, elderly people
- Schwarzenegger halts evictions of disabled residents
- Op-ed: Planned community needed for adults with disabilities
- Deaf athletes increasingly compete in college sports
- Coaches collaborate, allow touchdown by player with DS
- Parents seek to create lifelong home for adult children with autism
- Op-ed: ‘It’s a mad, mad world’
- A world with no more Down syndrome?
- Apartment complex tells tenants with disabilities to clear out
- Texas couple cherishes short life of son with Trisomy 13
- Blogger: Obama proposal will improve disability coverage
- Disability advocates sue California over highway access
- In case you missed it: The continuing saga of a word
- Newspaper faces controversy over ‘depressing’ amputee story
- Insurers reject mainstream devices for speech assistance
- Column: Schools misusing special ed for remedial education
- Columnist weighs autism, vaccines
- Program prepares students with autism for college
- Mentally ill woman was trapped in immigration maze: Advocates
- Autism fears fuel wariness of flu vaccine
- Article: ‘Will babies with Down syndrome slowly disappear?’
- Disability advocate was UK ‘people’s peer’
- NC boy with autism loses pet pig to city ban
- Reports on champion athlete highlight birth defect
- Heigl and husband adopting ‘special needs baby’
- Judge orders restoration of benefits for elderly, disabled adults
- ‘Team Lucy’ aims to stamp out stigma
- Fetal Alcohol Syndrome often overlooked, advocates say
- Report: People with disabilities left out of disaster planning
- Editorial: People with disabilities lack clout, hope
- Unregulated homes endanger elderly, disabled people
- State fair sideshow: Exploitation or advocacy?
- Educators weigh impact of high court special ed ruling
- Abercrombie & Fitch fined for bias against girl with autism
- Language alert: Should ‘retard’ leave the lexicon?
- Students with disabilities languish after graduation
- Federal judge finds NY illegally warehoused mentally ill people
- Op-ed: ObamaCare will prompt abortions of babies with disabilities
- Swine flu deaths higher in children with disabilities, CDC says
- Millions wait years for social security disability benefits
- Gone fishin’
- Committee dumps ‘death panel’ provision
- Commentary: ‘Eunice the Formidable’
- Paying tribute to Eunice Kennedy Shriver
- ‘Lose the Training Wheels’ sets kids in motion
- Commentary: GOP, don’t use people with disabilities as ‘poster children’
- Commentary: Disability ‘not a death sentence’
- UK woman wins disability case against Abercrombie
- Conviction in Texas ‘fight club’ case
- Throngs mourn Eunice Kennedy Shriver
- Praise for Eunice Kennedy Shriver from pioneering parents
- Disaster plans leave people with disabilities in harm’s way
- Editorial: She opened a world to people with disabilities
- UK advocates push for Paralympic awareness, social change
- Op-ed: Tribute to Rosemary Kennedy
- Letters: It’s time for public debate on prenatal testing
- Barone: ‘Giving thanks for Eunice Shriver’
- Columnist on his friendship with ‘St. Eunice’
- Film prompts reexamination of media portrayals of autism
- Scotland works to include people with disabilities in justice system
- Students with disabilities spanked more at school
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 88; Special Olympics founder
- UK spending millions to develop noninvasive prenatal test
- Palin’s ‘death panel’ remark draws fire
- Haitian parents increasingly abandon kids with disabilities
- Column: With Special Olympics, Eunice Shriver changed world
- Palin Facebook post: Administration health care plan is ‘evil’
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver hospitalized
- Teen with autism unlocks inner voice
- Seeking equality in medical care
- Sotomayor expected to bring disability perspective to high court
- Cambodia cancels ‘Miss Landmine’ beauty pageant
- Alabama settles waiting list lawsuit
- Columnist: Better disability transit services needed
- Kids with disabilities have their own summer camps
- Best-selling author and character share a diagnosis
- Column: College autism program expands hope for jobs
- Special ed pioneer is honored
- Column: ‘Step right up for today’s sideshows’
- Education secretary asks states to develop, revise restraint plans
- Ed Roberts campus to offer one-stop disability services
- Surfing, Asperger’s a powerful mix
- Asperger’s awareness growing in popular culture
- Father launches a fight against Florida waiting list
- Unconventional advice for caregivers
- Editorial: ‘Disturbing’ police incident points up need for change
- Op-ed: Senate should ratify disability rights pact
- Blind drivers take the wheel
- ‘Death care’ provision sparks fear among seniors
- Op-ed: Budget cuts threaten ADA progress
- Autism worries fuel concern about swine flu vaccine
- Recession brings surge in disability benefit claims
- Debate roiling over end-of-life benefit in health care proposal
- Commentary: Obama backed off on community-based supports
- Utah: Problems at schools for blind students don’t violate law
- Complaint: Baltimore schools discriminate against blind students
- Texas man brings hope, wheelchairs to Iraqi kids
- U.S. signs disability rights treaty
- Wheelchair shows problems of health care reform
- Boy’s death points out lack of regulation of ‘psychoeducational’ schools
- Settlement mandates release of 300 from NJ institutions
- ‘Adam’ embraced by Asperger’s advocates
- Movie review: Asperger’s feels like ‘Hollywood’s new black’
- Vandals target nonprofit flower shop
- Critical praise for ‘Adam’
- Obamacare bill termed ‘government-encouraged euthanasia’
- U.S. launches new disability website
- CA deal could end exam requirement for kids with disabilities
- Commentary on Obama ADA speech: ‘We’re screwed’
- Exploring history through the lens of disability
- Op-ed: ‘We can do better for the mentally ill’
- Researchers: Restrictive diets may not help kids with autism
- iPods may help kids with Asperger’s fit in
- AL police use Taser, pepper spray on deaf man
- ‘Adam’: Hollywood’s vision of an ‘Aspie’ in love
- MA legislators push broader insurance coverage for disabilities
- CA court allows disabled student to take bar
- Detroit laying off bus aides for kids with disabilities
- Opinion: California budget cuts endanger good social programs
- Maryland disability agency culls decades-old waiting list
- Op-ed: ‘Abortion and the echo of eugenics’
- Disability rights advocates wary of Obama end-of-life proposal
- Comic convention a big draw for people with disabilities
- Obama must seek Senate’s help on UN disability rights treaty
- Obama: U.S. to sign disability rights treaty
- The ADA’s 19th birthday: Cause for celebration?
- UK charities say people with learning disabilities left behind
- ‘Autism from the inside looking out’
- The President’s schedule today
- Advocates: Utah budget cuts ‘go too far’
- California budget deal slashes funding for in-home support
- Opinion: ‘GovernmentCare’s Assault on Seniors’
- Tim Shriver: ‘The perfect job for Sarah Palin’
- Additional items for Wednesday, July 22, 2009
- Column: Ginsburg’s remark stirs debate over eugenics, abortion
- Editorial: ADA helps everyone
- Budget cuts endanger care to elderly, disabled Californians
- Disability rights advocates rally for community choice
- Psycho Donuts TV debate to air
- Researchers: Riding a bike can offer lasting benefits
- Additional items for July 21, 2009
- CA environmental activists say contamination caused disabilities
- Test scores may sink school for kids with chronic illness
- Columnist: Illinois budget targets people with disabilites
- Op-ed: ‘Disability is not a medical problem’
- Ontario families fear losing kids with disabilities
- Families migrate in search of education for kids with autism
- Mexico airport hires workers with disabilities
- UCLA program honors first graduating class
- Two prenatal Down syndrome diagnoses, two perspectives
- Sotomayor hearing skips over one big question
- Budget cuts close center for adults with developmental disabilities
- Column: ‘Why Trig Palin has divided America’
- Writer: LPA taking a stand against public ridicule
- Hate crimes measure passes Senate
- Disability advocates cry foul over Texas pact
- Essay: People with autism deserve respect from academia
- Peter Singer: ‘We must ration health care’
- Atlanta scrambles to find $13 million to fix ADA violations
- UK leader Cameron calls for end to ‘bureaucratic pain’ for families of kids with disabilities
- Young man with Down syndrome decides to wait for Miss Right
- Suicide couple prompt new debate
- Inclusive preschool teaches compassion along with ABC’s
- Shriver: Special Olympics a ‘wake-up call’ for Britain
- British band fights for right to ‘Stay Up Late’
- VA flooded by disability claims; Backlog mounts
- Colorado special ed often falls short
- Minnesota lawsuit: State hospital routinely restrained residents
- New prenatal testing widens ethical debate
- Obit: Advocate helped draft ADA
- ‘He got off the motorcycle and proceeded to show us card tricks…’
- Editorial: Fair pay needed for caregivers
- Editorial: Texas reforms are meaningless without accountability
- Racehorse promotes autism awareness
- Sotomayor manages diabetes well, friends say
- Study: Moms of kids with autism have higher stress
- Mother pleads not guilty in death of son with autism
- TX program designed for thousands with disabilities, serves few
- Parents: Washington disability employment policy goes too far
- It’s official: Ohio drops the term ‘mental retardation’
- In Boston, high rate of segregation for students with disabilities
- Opinions: Were Palin’s children ridiculed?
- Advocates sue to delay Washington program cuts
- Family sues assisted living center, alleges sexual abuse
- Turkey Service owners claim Iowa laws don’t apply
- Disability coalition endorses Sotomayor
- Opinion: Palin squandered opportunity to help
- Writer: Palin reacting to ‘indecent’ treatment of Trig, Bristol
- Advocacy group seeks FCC ban on term ‘midget’
- Guilty plea in Texas fight club case
- Editorial: Institution’s closing was overdue
- Case of autistic marine highlights recruitment lapses
- Disability design: Can’t we do better?
- Advocates seek ban on school restraints, isolation
- Writer: Palin running to get more ‘retarded people’
- Resigning Palin cites ‘mean-spirited’ attacks on son with DS
- Autism Speaks sees second resignation over vaccine stance
- Buddy road trip … with a twist
- Why adopt a child with a disability?
- Finding a job: It’s getting even harder for folks with disabilities
- As MA special ed spending climbs, kids fall farther behind
- Institution shuts doors on dark past; Future uncertain
- Column: Obama should send strong disability rights message
- Official says Canada’s streets, prisons are today’s ‘asylums’
- Universal embryo test expected soon
- Research: Autism risk rises with problem pregnancies, age
- Rwanda denies plan for involuntary sterilization of disabled
- Stimulus funds give special ed preschool programs a reprieve … at least for now
- Commentary: ‘Tragedy and triumph’ in court ruling
- Massachusetts agency dumps ‘retardation’ from its name
- Sequenom faces SEC probe
- Disability voter turnout reported up
- EEOC turns up heat on disability cases
- Hennefer to be honored at All-Star Game
- Editorial: Compensation needed for eugenics victims
- Cyclists with diabetes set speed record, inspire hope
- Feds launch civil rights probe of KY Medicaid program
- Charlotte school district settles special-ed suit
- Caregivers worry: Will rise in adults with autism swamp system?
- Autism insurance gathers momentum
- NJ autism insurance law on governor’s desk
- Minnesota budget cuts: ‘Will disabled be left on curb?’
- Families sue to protect benefits for kids with disabilities
- Column: ‘Funds for disabled poorly spent’
- D.C. charter schools fend off kids with disabilities, official says
- Boston hospitals agree to improve accessibility
- Groups announce consensus on prenatal screening and testing
- Veteran’s groups criticize VA for mounting claims
- Marking Olmstead, advocates seek more community care
- PA gov to charter schools: Give back unspent special ed funds
- ’99 Balloons’ video a tribute to son’s short life
- Books: Buck v. Bell eugenics decision still stands
- Op-ed: In ‘year of the minority,’ vast group is left out
- Postsecondary programs make college dreams come true
- Study: Women look away from babies with disabilities
- Columnist: CA budget cuts will end up costing taxpayers more
- NC roadside marker recalls victims of eugenic sterilization
- Columnist: MA budget cuts will be a disaster for disabled
- Highest honor for pioneering principal
- President marks Olmstead anniversary, launches disability initiative
- PA governor pushes tax hike for autism treatment
- North Carolina to honor victims of forced sterilization
- High court rejects limits on public special ed funding
- Couple faces end of battle over death of baby with Trisomy 13
- Ten years later, hundreds of thousands still wait to leave institutions
- Few medically fragile Texans qualify for home care
- Half of Israelis don’t want intellectually disabled near their homes
- Woman in shed raises questions about independent living
- VA unprocessed claims approach 1 million mark
- Tips for workers with chronic illness
- Golfer with Down syndrome a finalist in People contest
- Doctors: Obesity isn’t a disability
- Brazilian study finds overwhelming prejudice against disabled
- Op-ed: ‘Without human wealth, a nation limits itself’
- Pittsburgh hosts international disability rights conference
- Op-ed: Help people with disabilities live independently
- ‘Beyond Boundaries Live’ spurs conversation about disability
- LA news probe finds bus drivers endangering wheelchair riders
- Columnist: Give me my money back!
- 300 gather to support disabled teen after violent attack
- Book probes treatments aimed at making kids ‘normal’
- UPS settles suit over jobs for drivers with hearing impairments
- Editorial urges equal access to charter schools
- Attorney General calls for new hate crime law
- Op-ed: End health-related discrimination
- Prospects bleak for NC eugenics reparations effort
- She’s suing over Abercrombie’s ‘Look Policy’
- Study: Possible link between deaths, ADHD drugs
- Former guardsman gets 8 years in torture of disabled man
- Prominent deaf advocate pushed for civil rights
- Special ed bill would let parents visit classrooms
- ‘Cleland back in political spotlight’
- Editorial: It’s time for state agencies to lose ‘R-word’
- Woman in scooter claims bias by White Castle
- Parents, health workers differ ‘significantly’ on ill babies
- High school grad with DS wins part on Fox show
- Disability rights advocate Sabatier helped improve access
- Op-ed: ‘Who cares for the carers?’
- California faces ‘catastrophic’ cuts to adult care
- Columnist: ‘Counting a little blessing’
- AZ parents seek notification about school restraints
- Editorial: Teachers need training to help kids with disabilities
- Summer jobs out of reach for teens with disabilities
- Oregon couple seeks $14 million in ‘wrongful birth’ lawsuit
- Op-ed: Budget cuts endanger Californians with disabilities
- Colorado charter schools enroll fewer kids with disabilities
- Hundreds of workers disciplined for mistreating disabled people
- Fight clubs may not have been isolated, attorney says
- Blogger admits tale of Trisomy 13 baby was a hoax
- Blind pianist takes top honors in Cliburn competition
- More college students report disabilities
- Fairness of 100-year prison sentence questioned
- Texas governor signs bill to overhaul state institutions
- Examining Sotomayor’s record on special education
- Virginia audit: State failing kids with autism
- Hollywood mogul credits business acumen to dyslexia
- Feds find widespread lack of access at polling places
- Georgia adaptive sports program safe … for now
- Healthcare reform for disabled called ‘civil rights issue’
- Washington Metro concerned about rising paratransit costs
- Couple’s suicide puts spotlight on caregivers
- Special ed class left out of high school yearbook
- Downturn puts ‘chokehold’ on caregivers
- Opinion: Susan Boyle advances learning disability cause
- Writer’s ‘lame argument’ for Sotomayor
- Sotomayor coverage reveals myths about diabetes, experts say
- Writer sees ‘impending epidemic of disability abortions’
- Alternative testing expands beyond special ed
- In Virginia, too few homes for people with intellectual disabilities
- Popular Florida autism program jeopardized by budget cuts
- Columnist sees ‘nightmares’ for disabled and elderly Californians
- Atalissa business owner says company did nothing wrong
- Palin appears at NY disability events; Start of next campaign?
- Women speak out about their late-term choices
- Danish company promotes talents of people with autism
- Writers: ‘Are we saying society would be better off without Down’s syndrome babies?’
- New attention on late abortions involving abnormalities
- Eleven-year-old with disabilities handcuffed to school door
- Book Review: ‘Boy Alone’
- Budget cuts endanger sports program for kids with disabilities
- Graduation nears for student and aide of 12 years
- ‘A crowning achievement, an uncertain future’
- Bronx teachers: Principal ordered inflation of special ed grades
- UK study: People with autism don’t get needed services
- People with DS raise concerns about prenatal testing in Quebec
- Column: In defense of late abortions for fetal abnormalities
- Budget cuts threaten California Alzheimer’s programs
- ‘Technology has redefined what it means to be disabled’
- Editorial: ‘What died with Dr. George Tiller’
- Tiller’s death focuses attention on abortions involving disabilities
- Thousands rally against possible cuts in disability services
- Texas lawmakers balance institutions, community care
- Column: Empathy on court could have averted mass sterilizations
- Op-ed: Consolidate NJ institutions
- ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ faces scrutiny over Susan Boyle’s care
- A dad’s op-ed: ‘I hope you dance’
- Scout with Down syndrome earns Eagle rank
- Study: Popular ‘treatment’ no help to kids with autism
- Florida frustrated by restrictions on stimulus spending
- Books: Journalist explores his family’s ‘ghosts’
- Ablevision TV show spotlights abilities
- Editorial: Restraint of student reveals need for reform
- Slain abortion doctor specialized in fetuses with abnormalities
- Rise in disability hate crimes linked to economic downturn
- Kennedy plans disability insurance measure
- Disability agencies taking brunt of Tennessee budget cuts
- British research finds many undiagnosed kids with autism
- Tucson special ed student routinely restrained to fence
- Op-ed: ‘Sotomayor an inspiration for others with diabetes’
- UCLA endocrinologist: Don’t worry about Sotomayor’s diabetes
- NPR: Is Sotomayor’s diabetes an issue?
- iPhone applications give voice to kids with disabilities
- Texas senate OKs settlement on state schools
- Scientists call Lupron autism treatment ‘junk science’
- Opinion: ‘Judge Sotomayor’s diabetes is one of her strengths’
- In JAMA: New prenatal tests raise ethical concerns
- ‘Thalidomiders’ still seeking justice, compensation
- Selected coverage, comments on Judge Sotomayor’s diabetes
- Sotomayor nomination renews discussion of diabetes
- Books: Memoir tells of mom’s attachment to ‘throwaway child’
- Column: Jewelry business builds confidence, independence
- Firm’s history shows change in attitudes toward disability hiring
- Op-ed: Help desperately needed for adults with autism
- Judge finds Georgia boy abused at school
- Texas to hire 1,000 into institutions; Advocates skeptical
- Thousands protest home care cuts in California
- Column: Health care reform must include those with disabilities
- Texas fight club victim speaks out
- Texas, feds reach deal on state institutions
- UK parents say schools don’t want kids with DS
- NH school districts send special ed bill to feds
- Georgia special ed teacher, aide charged with child cruelty
- Down syndrome reveals a key to halting cancer
- Duncan seeks rules on use of restraints in schools
- Districts say federal stimulus rules are too restrictive
- Additional information from restraint hearing
- GAO report details school abuse of students with disabilities
- A mother’s testimony: Son died from school restraint
- Loudoun teacher implicated in Cedric Napoleon’s death
- Five plead not guilty to ‘fight club’ charges
- Texas budget compromise would aid those with disabilities
- GAO finds wide abuse in discipline of students with disabilities
- Records reveal more abuse at Texas institution
- Massachusetts budget cuts threaten disability services
- More from Karl Taro Greenfeld: Life in the shadow of autism
- Man with Asperger’s says wife figured out diagnosis
- More housing bias against people with disabilities
- He worries: Could genetic testing eliminate people with autism?
- Abuse complaints from Texas institutions rarely prosecuted
- Op-ed: Should disabled be hidden to ease our discomfort?
- Expert: DS testing kills many ‘normal’ English babies
- U-Wisconsin hospital faces suit over withholding of care
- Texas legislators revive effort to shrink institutions
- The graying of autism: A brother’s account
- Op-ed: Community Choice Act needs more than Obama ‘lip service’
- Sotomayor’s diabetes prompts debate
- Book review: ‘Staring: How We Look’
- Texas, feds reach tentative pact on institutions
- Woman sentenced to jail for scamming adults in her care
- Recession puts even more strain on caregivers
- Disability activists protest, give Texas lawmakers a ‘D’
- Texas ‘fight club’ videos released
- Protesters: Psycho Donut shop perpetuates stigma
- Improvement noted in Baltimore special ed
- Michigan insurer to begin offering autism coverage
- Amputee surfers paddle out again
- Play explores ‘unrelenting’ demands of kids with disabilities
- Parents finding more support for pregnancies with disabilities
- Columnist: Daughter’s life is beautiful, not ‘compromised’
- ‘The disability mess’
- Women charged with abuse of group home resident
- ‘Mad pride’ movement challenges views of mental illness
- National Gallery installs David Lenz portrait of Eunice Shriver
- Research: Autism ‘recovery’ possible for some
- Feds find anti-disability bias at California public school
- Obit: Martha Mason wrote a book about years in iron lung
- Columnist: Moms find rewards in raising kids with disabilities
- What happened to Obama promise of full special ed funding?
- HBO’s Alzheimer’s series: ‘Ambitious, disturbing’
- Disability adviser: WH ‘loves’ MSNBC
- Students in special ed more likely to have inexperienced teachers
- Supreme Court candidate says diabetes shaped career choice
- California sees twelvefold increase in autism caseload
- Op-ed: Anti-bullying bill offers hope for kids with disabilities
- Columnist: Cutting funds for assistants will cost more in long run
- Duncan sees problems with exams for kids with disabilities
- NJ commissioner defends decision to close special ed schools
- Writing disabilities overlooked, researchers say
- Quote of the day
- Reviewer: ‘Disabled dancer’ is an oxymoron
- Popular books stir young readers with links to ADHD, dyslexia
- Flu school closures pose extra challenge for kids in special ed
- Column: Massachusetts program cuts harm vulnerable citizens
- Investors sue Sequenom over false test data
- Rising debate over restraints in schools
- Autism clinic faces probes by insurers, medical investigators
- Michael J. Fox pairs optimism, Parkinson’s
- Columnist calls for end to state’s use of ‘hurtful’ word
- Editorial: It’s time for Iowa to look beyond institutions
- UK panel seeks urgent action to halt violence toward people with disabilities
- Study: Children with disabilities are under-insured
- Finnish music teacher sparks a ‘cultural revolution’
- Kansans rally to cut waiting list for disability services
- UK couple sues over ‘wrongful birth’ of son with disabilities
- Critics say bill restricts sexual freedom for adults with disabilities
- Hawaiians with disabilities struggle to find work
- Missing boy with Asperger’s turns up — on the other coast
- ‘Lord of the Flies’ attack targeted boy with disabilities
- IVF babies more likely to have birth defects, couple learns
- ‘Autism culture’ movement seeks acceptance, not cure
- Sequenom delays prenatal test, says employees mishandled data
- Autism researchers announce genetic breakthrough
- Texas lawmakers abandon bid to close institutions
- Supreme Court hears special education case
- Special ed teacher honored as National Teacher of the Year
- People with autism can ‘get a life,’ parents say
- Teen the first to use sign language in national poetry contest
- Columnist: Don’t let student with DS devalue college degree
- Family says Chicago police beat teen with autism
- Quinn Bradlee: Adventures with learning disabilities
- 91 arrested in disability rights protest
- Editorial: Public schools must pay for better special ed services
- Columnist: Why such low public expectations?
- High court to weigh special ed funding case
- More furloughs for disability claims workers
- MA budget cuts threaten jobs for people with disabilities
- Maria Shriver on Alzheimer’s humor
- Iowa declines to close institution
- Duckworth confirmed for VA post
- Irish campaign aims to empower citizens with disabilities
- Rep. McMorris Rodgers: Championing people with disabilities
- Apple withdraws iPhone ‘Baby Shaker’ from online store
- NYC tenants filing rights suit over failed elevator access
- Op-ed: A mom reflects on life with a disability
- In charity skit, Paterson mocks wheelchair ad
- ‘The Endless Search’
- Texas takes on ‘R-word’
- Students with ADHD may need help with college transition
- NY Times style manual nixes the term ‘midget’
- ‘Alicia May’ taps complex emotions between siblings
- Principal: Student with disabilities can march in graduation
- NYC struggles with escalating costs for autism education
- Upcoming film inspired by tale of Arthur Miller, son
- Texas parents oppose closing institutions
- Seclusion and restraints policies uneven; Advocates seek reform
- Palin: Son with DS helped her live out anti-abortion beliefs
- New head of HHS disability office says he’s a ‘freedom fighter’
- Disney device enhances accessibility for guests with disabilities
- Column: Sex is part of full life for people with disabilities
- Susan Boyle says disabilities shaped her life
- New IL law expands insurance coverage for kids with disabilities
- Advocates: CA budget woes target seniors and disabled
- As economic woes deepen, patients forego diabetes treatment
- Parents: Ontario hospital withheld treatment from disabled girl
- Books: How ‘The Horse Boy’ conquered autism
- Guilty plea entered in torture of man with disabilities
- Adults with DS face uncertain future, lack of support
- Scott MacIntyre aimed to ‘break barriers’
- Special ed students struggle to find jobs in economic downturn
- Workers in Texas institutions got millions in overtime
- Atalissa probe widens
- Epilepsy: Overlooked and underfunded too long
- ‘Illogical’ state budget cuts said to harm people with disabilities
- First on the chopping block: Aid for vulnerable people
- Video games can be a lifesaver for people with disabilities
- Tennessee disability fund in jeopardy
- Easter egg hunt features beeping plastic eggs
- Poll: Parents lack long-term plans for kids with disabilities
- Exhibit explores war on ‘genetically unfit’
- Young people with Down syndrome flourish with Boston Ballet
- Editorials: Baby Kaylee case raises troubling ethical questions
- Parents, staff object to NJ regional school closings
- Baby didn’t die; Dad not sure she should live
- ‘American Idol’ eliminates Scott MacIntyre
- Utah poised to freeze waiting list indefinitely
- Texas judge denies new trial to man with IQ of 47
- Supporters rally to keep MA institutions open
- Supreme Court declines to hear Fernald case
- Advocates protest limits on Kindle read-aloud feature
- Essay: Mother learns to accept son’s autism
- Records: ‘Fight club’ organizers had poor work histories
- Schools try to encourage student empathy, respect
- More cases like Atalissa possible, Iowa official says
- Advocates challenge Georgia mental health settlement
- Op-ed: Urgent need to focus on care for adults with autism
- Student with Down syndrome defeated in high school vote
- ‘Teenagers With Autism: Want a Job?’
- Ruling: Sperm banks can be sued under product liability laws
- Marlee Matlin: Let children be heard
- Memoir explores genetic disorder, learning disabilities
- California losing money over furloughed disability workers
- Column: People with disabilities deserve full citizenship
- Oregon tracks students with disabilities after high school
- Coverage of Autism Awareness Day
- Advocates: Bush failed to guard civil rights in institutions
- Strings attached to federal stimulus funds for special education
- Officials see rise in fraud, abuse by home health workers
- Jenny McCarthy still blaming vaccines
- Report: More U.S.-born Somali kids in autism classes
- Federal workers with disabilities very rare; Numbers declining
- Congressman seeks GAO probe of school restraints
- Kansas City stadium more disability-friendly
- CNN’s Jack Cafferty: Obama gaffe was ‘stupidest thing …’
- Temple Grandin’s mother shares message of hope
- Handcuffing, arrest of student renews concerns over discipline
- Battle looms over closing institution in Washington state
- ‘Ban the word’ goes nationwide
- Poll finds broad use of insult ‘retard;’ youths say they don’t use it
- Tim Shriver: ‘An invitation to humiliation-free living’
- Marketers reach out to people with disabilities
- ‘Stand tall — together’
- Op-ed: Dale juggling two White House jobs?
- Op-ed: Banish the word ‘retard’
- Fewer than one in ten blind Americans read Braille
- Last resident to leave 120-year-old California institution
- Residents allege abuse at Howe in ICDD video
- Prof urges colleagues to ‘come out’ about invisible disabilities
- UK probe finds ‘appalling’ neglect of disabled in health system
- Dale defends president’s gaffe, asks for patience
- Maria Shriver highlights Alzheimer’s awareness
- People with mental illness pose violent threat in nursing homes
- Family seeks to sue Texas over attack on son in institution
- Parents seek tax-free accounts for kids with disabilities
- Reality with DS a far cry from bleak forecasts, parents say
- Tucker Carlson defends president’s ‘lame joke’
- Quips like Obama’s are a ‘great sin,’ rabbi says
- Arc to Obama: We want change, not just an apology
- Op-ed to Obama: Open mouth, remove foot
- Columnist: Obama remark ‘just a verbal fumble’
- Ear on Washington
- Obama remark spurs anger at state conference
- Op-ed: ‘How Obama can make up for his gaffe’
- Obama gave license for others to mock, one mom says
- Editor: ‘Obama doesn’t get it’
- Nine investigated in new state school fight allegations
- Op-ed: President’s Special Olympic joke was ‘awesome’
- Obit: Theologian Nancy Eiesland wrote that God is disabled
- Op-ed: ‘Special needs aren’t funny’
- 27 percent say ‘Get over it, people’
- Columnist: Prejudice persists over Down Syndrome
- Talk show host: President must repair damage
- Columnist: Quip energizes president’s foes
- Disability advocates: Close state schools
- Editorial: Texas reform must also bring alternatives
- Editorial: In defense of humor and Obama
- Editor: Obama should make amends
- Athletes, families wounded by Obama remark
- Editorial: ‘Obama throws a gutter ball’
- Editorial: Obama cricitism is ‘political correctness’
- Palin: Obama quip ‘degrading’
- Mel Levine gives up medical license amid abuse charges
- Obama remark draws attention to ‘R-word’ campaign
- Maria: What a gaffe! Arnold: What gaffe?
- Special Olympics bowler challenges Obama
- Opinion: Cocky Obama ‘blew it’
- Shriver: President’s remark a ‘teachable moment’
- Commentary on Obama’s Special Olympics gaffe
- Obama gaffe: Jokes that his bowling is ‘like Special Olympics’
- NC’s Perdue seeks foundation for eugenic sterilization victims
- Disabled job seekers losing jobs to nondisabled workers
- Books: ‘Fasten Your Seatbelt’ offers info for siblings
- Man with disabilities lives to defend right to die
- Their dancing invites stares
- Parents fear scandal will be used to close institutions
- Why the abuse at Texas institutions? Experts offer explanations
- Parents say music therapy helps kids with autism
- Mom wants ‘ordinary’ life for her son – including sex
- CA gymnast competes at high level
- Tiny basketball player dominates competition
- Why so many autism cases among Somali kids in the U.S.?
- Transition planning still difficult for families, educators
- Parents sue hospital for keeping daughter on life support
- Texas ‘state school’ resident’s death ruled a homicide
- Texas lawmakers: Institutions should be fixed, not closed
- Books: ‘Design Meets Disability’
- Kareem Dale to White House arts post
- Truancy policies bully students with disabilities, parents say
- Budget cuts threaten Virginia program for adults with intellectual disabilities
- ‘Gimp’ dancers seek to challenge preconceptions
- Vancouver aims for best-ever accessibility at 2010 Paralympics
- Atalissa scandal prompts demands for change
- Analysis: Abuse in Texas could have been expected
- Op-ed: Focus on environmental causes of autism
- 1 arrested, 5 more sought in Texas ‘fight club’ case
- More allegations of ‘human cockfights’ in Texas institutions
- MTV ‘News’ cast profiled
- Columnist: CA autism insurance ruling isn’t fair
- Fans say no pity votes for American Idol contestant
- Eliminating Down syndrome population: A good thing?
- ‘Retard’ featured in upcoming R-rated film ‘Miss March’
- On crutches and skateboard, he soars through Visa ad
- Hot topics: Curtis L. Decker on Texas institutions
- IEP team given final word on student’s graduation ceremony
- Class action suit alleges abuse at Canadian school for the deaf
- Columnist: Texas fights ‘a symptom of sick system’
- Minnesotans protest proposed cuts in disability services
- ‘Fight club’ probed at Texas institution for people with disabilities
- ‘A chance to dance’
- Insurance setback for California families of kids with autism
- Labor officials say loopholes leave disabled workers unprotected
- Texas Senate OKs bill to protect residents of institutions
- Mom’s column: Divert special ed funds to gifted kids
- Report: Progress seen in Baltimore elementary special ed
- Rep. Harper promotes Fragile X awareness, research
- ‘Micro Wrestling’: Exploitation or entertainment?
- Kennedy Center to showcase artists with disabilities
- Student wins MLK award for speech on disability rights
- Teaching inclusive classrooms is difficult, educators say
- Special-ed teachers suspended for refusing to give tests
- Books: ‘Handle with Care’
- Hundreds protest proposed disability budget cuts
- Advocates: Mass. governor ignoring disability rights
- Nashville schools work to end segregation of kids with disabilities
- Editorial: Help people with disabilities stay in their homes
- Kids with disabilities underrepresented in New Orleans charters
- Ohio school district may bring kids back to save money
- Play examines how it feels to be “Distracted”
- Hawaii to halve payments to poor, disabled residents
- Music therapy on the rise, but evidence lacking
- Parents allege disability bias in Tasering incident
- Scott MacIntyre advances to American Idol finals
- Required reading
- Down syndrome advocates lobby on Capitol Hill
- Bracing for more deep cuts in Florida support services
- Study: Children with ADHD strain relationships
- ‘Live at home on your dime or accept nursing care’
- British actress says her CP is just a part of her
- In wake of octuplets, calls to limit embryo implantation
- Columnist: ‘David Cameron’s open love for his son’
- BBC host is proud of debate her disability prompted
- ‘Program pairs special education, gifted students’
- Georgia group revives right-to-die debate
- Editorial: Paterson’s blindness hurts job performance
- Columnist: Granddaughter is just right
- Georgians rally for disability rights
- Photo exhibit introduces the people behind the diagnosis
- A nontraditional love story
- Iowa governor says state ‘failed’ disabled workers
- ‘Iona and Ivan — A tale of two children and two families’
- The legacy of Ivan Cameron
- Experiencing college with learning disabilities
- Obit: Award-winning Irish author and poet Christopher Nolan
- David Cameron’s son dies
- Iowa twice failed to act on treatment of disabled workers
- Op-ed: People with disabilities deserve housing choices
- ‘Developmentally disabled adults tied to system that doesn’t work’
- Nevada moms to lobby in D.C. for people with Down syndrome
- Job market gets tighter for people with disabilities
- New concerns over impending Down syndrome tests
- ‘Winter a true wonderland for athletes with disabilities’
- Parents complain that BBC TV host is scaring children
- Film starring man with DS tops Australian festival
- Texas faces battle over ‘state schools’
- ‘Smile Pinki’ takes Oscar; Surgery rid girl of stigma
- Advocates protest award for Lewis
- Humanitarian Oscar goes to Lewis
- Pope denounces genetics-based discrimination
- Teammates help blind California runner compete
- Editor to state: Disclose info on Atalissa bunkhouse probe
- Preying on vulnerable? Torture suspects charged in 2nd case
- Teammates welcome wrestler with Down syndrome
- ‘Whose child is this?’
- Judith Warner: ‘Children in the mental health void’
- ‘How’s Your News?’ opens window on an unfamiliar world
- Point-counterpoint on Jerry Lewis’ humanitarian award
- Man with disabilities tortured in Ontario, police say
- CA disability advocates worried about $100 million in budget cuts
- Study: Cancer survivors at high risk for unemployment
- Purpose-driven approach empowers residents with mental illness
- Charity works to halt murders of albinos in Tanzania
- Books: ‘The Last Goodnights’
- Woman loses UK assisted suicide case
- Virginia wrangles over whether to close institution
- Letters to the editor: Atalissa, autism
- Universal design gets a stylish new look
- Model home for residents who are deaf and blind
- Paul Steven Miller named Obama special assistant
- Canadian advocates seek action on UN disability accord
- One-time stimulus payment for seniors, people with disabilities
- Advocates to protest humanitarian award for Jerry Lewis
- Interview with mother of Atalissa turkey plant worker
- Painter’s artistic vision comes from within
- Atalissa councilman says Iowa ignored bunkhouse complaint
- Books: New Picoult novel grapples with wrongful birth lawsuit
- New Illinois law helps workers with disabilities stay on the job
- Tim Shriver: ‘Stigmatizing people stinks’
- Police called in two Florida elementary school incidents
- Dad: Don’t let ‘designer baby’ fears block assisted reproduction
- Special ed spending boost seen in stimulus package
- Scientists probe link between IVF, genetic problems
- Harkin plans hearings on Iowa workers
- FL special ed teacher acquitted of abuse
- State senator: Closing institution would harm workers, residents
- Families grapple with choice offered by prenatal diagnosis
- Susan Axelrod: ‘I must save my child’
- Farewell to Special Olympics World Winter Games
- College chances growing for those with intellectual disabilities
- Federal court: ADA covers people with diabetes
- Additional items for Friday, Feb. 13, 2009
- Columnist: Institutions in Bulgaria must be closed
- Authors, disability advocates spar over Kindle audio feature
- Editorial: Don’t let autism fears prevent vaccinations
- Biden says disability rep will have ‘direct access’ to president
- Paterson: SNL skits amplify bias against people with disabilities
- Additional items for Thursday, February 12, 2009
- Court rules autism not caused by childhood vaccines
- Study: Parents of kids with genetic disabilities avoid ‘choice’
- Report: Pennsylvania districts shortchanging special ed
- Special Olympics rally pushes for a new R-word: Respect
- Fertility clinics queried over multiple birth disability risks
- Federal judge casts doubt on dorm lawsuit merits
- ‘Invisible Kansans’ use Internet to plead their cause
- Wait list for disability services growing in Georgia
- Additional Items for Wednesday, February 11
- CA developmental disability spending up sharply; Cuts sought
- Iowa company admits to paying workers about $65 a month
- Minnesota struggles with disability fraud
- New artificial arm controlled by thoughts
- Mom wants Texas institution kept open
- Many teachers not trained to handle students with disabilities
- Few Catholic schools offer special education
- Disability advocates prod new education secretary
- U.S. media missing from Special Olympics World Winter Games
- Iowa prepares to charge employer of workers with disabilities
- William I. Cohen: Compassionate MD started DS Center
- Octuplets’ mom collected $168,000 in disability payments
- Company accused of exploiting workers with disabilities
- Newspaper: Autism-vaccine scare began when MD faked data
- ‘How’s Your News?’ — Laughing at or laughing with?
- Column: ‘What to do with Louie?’
- Parents: Judge’s ruling on nurses puts kids at risk
- Review: MTV’s ‘How’s your news?’
- Texas mum on institutions amid federal investigation
- Texas Gov. declares safety at institutions an emergency issue
- Sequenom revises test accuracy downward; Stock falls
- U.S. data: Few businesses employ people with disabilities
- Books: ‘Hands of my father’
- ‘SNL doesn’t care if Paterson’s offended’
- Editorial: Lack of space, funds fuel mental-health crisis
- Google execs face criminal charges over video
- California withholds funds from disability programs
- Disability stories on ‘American Idol’
- VA parents beg for autism insurance
- KS family demands student with disability be ready for college
- Disability metaphor: Republicans as blind beggar
- Op-ed: Deter abortions by supporting people with disabilities
- ‘Healing, interrupted’
- Doctors reluctant to treat adults with disabilities, Arc study finds
- Missouri parents sue to close 35 schools
- Tips on setting up a caregiver agreement
- Sequenom DS detection rate no longer perfect
- Column: ‘Disability Bitch vs. Presidents’
- Health care reinstated for Canadian woman
- Study: Broader prenatal genetic testing desired
- Ethicist: ‘Doctors should do more to avoid octuplets’
- NC advocates demand mental health reform
- Another student with disability left on NY school bus
- Gadgets make the world more accessible
- Additional items for Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2009
- Tim Shriver: ‘Unified teams’ are future of Special Olympics
- Arts review: ‘We’re all able in our own ways …’
- DVD helps kids with autism understand emotions
- Kids with disabilities may have undiagnosed mental health issues
- Tough decisions about future of young adults with DS
- Editorial: ‘Caring for the Caregivers’
- Paralyzed man held a year in Florida jail without a sentence
- Obit: ‘D.C. Lawyer Fought Exclusion of the Blind on Juries’
- Editorial: Closing institutions makes moral, economic sense
- Editorial: NJ should shut institutions, move people to community
- Illinois waiting list now 22,000 names long
- Man who attempted mercy killing avoids jail
- Editorial: ‘End wait for those with special needs’
- Op-ed: ‘Developmentally disabled need your help’
- Georgia budget plan would lengthen 6,700-person waiting list
- Books: ‘The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public’
- Study finds no evidence of vaccine-autism link
- Teen’s death leads Ohio governor to call for policy on restraints
- Op-ed: ‘Troubled minds and purple hearts’
- ‘Enabled veterans’
- Op-ed: ‘Moms! Save school nurses’
- CA budget plan would slash disability programs
- NC governor inspects troubled mental hospital
- High school senior launches campaign against ‘R-word’
- Florida mom lobbies against school restraints
- Editorial: ‘Giving up can’t be a solution’
- Editorial: Eliminate institutions for people with disabilities
- Editorial: Move slowly on closing Virginia institution
- Maryland man finds freedom in owning business
- Scientist: Media skewed reports of autism-testosterone link
- Utah lawmakers, families push for autism insurance
- Ontario woman with ALS says she’s being denied home care
- Advocates decry closings of 4 Chicago mental health centers
- French star appears in first film since stroke
- MA mental health budget cuts fuel worries
- Sequenom: Forbes ‘Stock of the Week’
- Disability-themed ‘Benjamin Button’ tops Oscar nominations
- In Tennessee, new restraint rules for students in special ed
- Worldwide distribution deal for Asperger’s film
- White House posts agenda on disability
- Reviews of Temple Grandin’s ‘Animals Make Us Human’
- Op-ed: Obama must address disability concerns
- Discouraging words about Cheney’s wheelchair
- Obit: Mona Winberg, Canadian disability rights advocate
- Utah considers closing autism preschools in budget crunch
- CA threatens to suspend disability payments
- Reviews: ‘Over the Hills and Far Away’
- Sacramento a leader in accessibility
- Virginia parents beg funding for children with disabilities
- Navigating the maze of autism treatments
- Dick Cheney to ride wheelchair to inauguration
- Wish list for Obama from people with disabilities
- UK plans inquiry into deaths of people with disabilities
- Columnist: Why the access problems at inauguration?
- Fans honor legacy of real-life ‘Rain Man’
- Op-ed: ‘Films show love healing mental suffering’
- At pre-inaugural celebration, Obama includes ‘disabled’
- Op-ed: Much work remains to assure disability rights
- Remembering Andrew Wyeth
- Georgia settles with feds, agrees to fix psychiatric hospitals
- Autism Speaks exec steps down over vaccine dispute
- ‘Mary and Max’ opens Sundance festival
- Obama VA pick promises to cut disability wait times
- Access problems loom at inauguration
- Editorials: NJ should close institutions, improve community care
- Columnist: ‘Having an autistic child wrecks your life’
- MTV reality series features people with disabilities
- Tech savvy Stevie Wonder tells technology firms: Be inclusive
- Feds file access suits against 5 hotels in NY theater district
- Federal judge hears dorm bias complaint against Michigan’s OU
- 8-year-old with Asperger’s arrested at school
- Plan would close five NJ institutions for people with disabilities
- Disability video wins Pulitzer Center/YouTube competition
- Scientific community skeptical about autism-testosterone link
- Column: What’s unethical about prenatal tests for autism?
- Labor nominee challenged on disability jobless rate
- Advocates press for end to school seclusion, prone restraint
- Column: ‘Autism is equality’s last frontier’
- UK woman refuses abortion of conjoined twins, spurs debate
- Doctor’s book prompts backlash against vaccine foes
- VA governor proposes cuts in services to people with disabilities
- Mother of sons with autism: ‘Our lives are not tragic’
- Kansas advocates protest cuts to home care services
- ‘Yonkers Joe’ features character with DS
- Hospital apologizes in starvation death of man with DS
- Prenatal screening for autism nearer; Ethical questions raised
- More companies offer help to families with disabilities
- Stevie Wonder, advocates encourage ‘vision-free’ gadgets
- Jay Turnbull, 41, inspired parents to found KU center
- Prenatal testing for autism: The ethical debate
- Families teach med students about disabilities
- Doctors to help prevent discrimination under new ADA law
- In memory of Jay Turnbull
- Irene C. Henry, 91, pioneered care for kids with disabilities
- Wheelchair crash death highlights transit concerns
- NYT editor critical of paper’s use of language on disability
- Children with/without disabilities left behind on school buses
- Daughter of couple with disabilities embraces family, college
- Driver who left man on bus had lengthy arrest record
- Advocates suspect autism in Travolta case
- People with disabilities imprisoned in Eastern Europe
- Columnist: Don’t be so quick to judge ‘hate speech’
- His goal: Technology that works when you’re not looking
- State audit faults SC disability agency
- Celebrating the contributions of Louis Braille
- Minnesotan is oldest living man with Down syndrome
- Serial ADA litigants: Crusading advocates or bottom-feeders?
- Service animals challenged
- North Carolina eugenics bill in doubt
- Man with disabilities left on freezing bus; Matron charged
- Recognition for Jean Vanier, founder of L’Arche
- Concerns raised over inauguration accessibility
- Employers help workers cope with special needs
- Vanderbilt starting program for students with disabilities
- ‘Lawsuits by the Disabled: Abuse of the System?’
- Harriet McBryde Johnson: A reflection by Peter Singer
- ‘Prospect provides inspiration with what he doesn’t have’
- Economy shreds gains for Coloradans with disabilities
- ‘Mental patients isolated for years despite laws’
- Prenatal test for DS among year’s top science stories
- ‘The Waiting List: America’s Healthcare Crisis’
- Afghanistan’s disability crisis
- Disability groups press Obama for policy voice, appointments
- Guest commentary: A call to the disability community
- Military parents lobby for help for kids with autism
- Computer software aids people with disabilities
- New law prompts accessible technology for travel, leisure
- SC runs school for people with disabilities on Superfund site
- Baylor fetal DNA test stirs controversy
- California housing agency spent on itself, not on clients
- Census: More than 54 million Americans have disabilities
- Private action and public policy over 41 years
- NC panel recommends reparations to eugenics victims
- Holiday toys for all
- Transplant surgeon acquitted in death of man with disabilities
- ‘Child King’ screens in Boston
- John C. McGinley on his favorite role: Max’s dad
- Kids with disabilities meet sensitive Santas
- Nonprofit seeks new technology for people with disabilities
- Gift-giving a challenge when kids have autism
- Schools use seclusion rooms to subdue kids with disabilities
- Man fights forced electroshock therapy
- Columnist: ‘No joke — stereotypes can sting’
- Parents of children with autism fear the future
- Audit: Detroit airport not accessible
- Texas lawmakers seek to fix institutions, not close them
- Op-ed: ‘The future in our hands’
- Paterson skit on ‘SNL’ funny or insulting? You decide
- ‘No confidence’ in leaders at Nebraska institution
- Nevada cuts early intervention
- Parents struggle to balance jobs, kids with disabilities
- State data: NYC shortchanging special ed students
- Gov. Paterson, blind advocates rip SNL skit
- Columnist: ‘The problem with Jerry’
- Illinois AG argues Blagojevich too ‘disabled’ to serve
- Abuse of handicapped permits prompts reform effort in CT
- Four institutions in MA scheduled to close
- Georgia mental health plan lacks funding
- Chapel Haven West teaches students with autism to live solo
- Families seek to block closing of Illinois institution
- Jerry Lewis to get humanitarian Oscar
- ‘Knowing Gabriel’
- U-Wisconsin campus welcomes students with disabilities
- Protesters confront officials over deaths in Texas institutions
- No charges brought in assisted suicide case
- WI report: Restraints still used after fatal incident
- Editorial: Texas must act swiftly on institutions
- NC seeks victims of eugenic sterilization
- BBC reprimanded over jokes about Palin, Down syndrome
- Cal wheelchair basketball students mostly non-disabled
- Commentary: Media has biased view of people with disabilities
- ‘The waltz of a fearless flower’
- Op-ed: Texas has ‘moral obligation’ to shift to community care
- Dentist’s protocol sparks controversy over DS research
- Advocates call for closing of Alabama institution
- In NY, a push to educate kids with autism near home
- Test all pregnant women for DS, Australian doctors urge
- New rule lets parents pull kids out of special ed
- 53 people with intellectual disabilities falsely confess to crimes
- Magazine honors Eunice Shriver for lifetime of leadership
- Stars aligned to close Texas institutions?
- New DS tests could spur more abortions, less family aid
- GA mental health advocate caught in budget squeeze
- Americans with disabilities hit hard in downturn
- Advocates seek halt on admissions to Texas institutions
- Students face suspension over mental health woes
- ‘The Black Balloon’: Wrenching portrait of life with autism
- New U of Iowa program serves students with learning disabilities
- Book: ‘Living Gently in a Violent World’
- Shortage of direct support workers called crisis
- Texas ‘state school’ staff: Overworked, underpaid
- Taxi troubles
- Michael J. Fox on living with Parkinson’s
- Virginia advocates rally against ‘training center’
- Home appliance makers seek to woo boomers with more accessible designs
- ‘Time for Dad to die’
- ‘Growing Pains’
- After ballot defeat, new idea from Colorado disability advocates
- U.S. report blasts mistreatment of residents in Texas institutions
- Disability advocates sue Oakland U over dorm access
- Group finds jobs for people with Down syndrome
- Parents said near ‘breaking point’ with autism
- Canadian colleges seek students with disabilities
- Column: Life looks good from a wheelchair
- Adults with developmental disabilities wait years for homes
- Kansas freezes independent living program
- Group home delays closing amid offers of help
- One in five young adults has mental health problems
- Columnist: New perspective on disabilities is needed
- Op-ed: ‘Shame on doctors prejudiced against Down syndrome’
- Columnist: Abortion for Down syndrome isn’t eugenics
- Columnist: BBC misread data on Down syndrome births
- Denmark records dramatic drop in births of babies with DS
- Milwaukee suit seeks education for overlooked students
- Girl Scouts reject girl with autism
- Real estate slump opens doors for people with disabilities
- Autism takes major toll on family finances
- Five friends lose group home as state funding dries up
- Australian immigration minister says Moeller family can stay
- Travel week
- Nebraska law exposes gaps in mental health care
- School board suspends teacher who let class vote out autistic student
- Children’s mental health care lagging
- Economic woes cause cuts in disability services
- Sequenom sees big market in prenatal testing for autism, other conditions
- Troubled CA school district moves toward special ed reform
- Op-ed: Society can choose to help those most in need
- Report: Gulf War Syndrome is real
- Jon Stewart on Leary’s book: ‘Most of this is gibberish, Denis’
- Book: One mom’s acceptance of son’s autism
- Mom helps son’s classmates understand autism
- Mom asks: Has my son has recovered from autism?
- Op-ed: NC should honor, aid victims of sterilization
- Book examines high court support for sterilization of ‘unfit’
- High court rejects disability case
- CA court ruling: Only nurses can give students insulin
- Birth defects linked to assisted reproduction
- Learning to give and accept help
- ‘Dear Noel, Is life really not worth living?’
- Director, advocates object to film’s ‘disability’ label
- Massachusetts cuts funding for job service centers
- Nebraska expected to alter safe haven law
- Op-ed: End disability discrimination
- Your campaign snapshots: Take 7
- Palin remarks on disabilities at GOP governors’ meeting
- Wheelchair-accessible truck trike offers ‘freedom’
- Neighbors fear new group home residents
- Landmark settlement could move thousands from IL institutions
- Family breaks Australian immigration barrier for people with DS
- Seattle home-care program reaches ‘end of a cliff’
- Dance class ‘uplifting’ for people with Parkinson’s
- Rape spurs questions about safeguards for vulnerable adults
- Californians oppose cuts in home care
- Video shows Dallas bus driver choking student
- Barone: Media opposed Palin because she didn’t have abortion
- Veterans’ families seek government payment as caregivers
- Op-ed: Disabled Coloradoans still need help
- Veterans groups sue over disability claim delays
- Ranks of home caregivers growing
- Geraldo soliciting stories from waiting lists
- Your campaign snapshots: Take 7
- One year later, conditions still poor at Texas institution
- Missouri state senator at center of prenatal testing debate
- U.S. hospital attempts to deport infant with DS
- Economic woes bring end to autism therapy
- Down syndrome immigration cases called ‘tip of the iceberg’
- Editorial: Colorado must fund services for people with disabilities
- Longer lives for people with DS bring rewards, risks
- Adoptions of children with Down syndrome are on the rise
- Long overdue Paralympics telecast stirs emotions
- Rights leader urges Australia to reverse Moeller decision
- Iowa cuts ‘idiot’ from state Constitution
- Advocates seek voting rights for those with intellectual disabilities
- Transplant MD faces trial in death of man with disabilities
- Op-ed: Florida schools failing students with disabilities
- Washington voters OK assisted suicide initiative
- In a push for unity, Obama acceptance speech …
- Colorado rejects Amendment 51
- Voters see lack of disabled access at Indiana polls
- Column: My daughters aren’t anti-abortion poster children
- NC mom alleges vote fraud by group home worker
- Offer prenatal screening or face lawsuits, Canadian MDs told
- Column: Trig is a blessing, not a prop
- Man with disability to appeal dorm query to trustees
- Op-ed: Georgia bureaucracy overlooks kids with special needs
- California GOP seeks probe over disabled voting
- Mother challenges son’s absentee ballot
- Indiana assists voters with disabilities
- Palin voucher plan: Could it work?
- Families of people with special needs connect with Palin
- Mom asks: Am I pro-choice or pro-life?
- Editorial: Change ‘idiot’ in Iowa Constitution
- Gupta: Children with DS face ‘frustrating stereotypes’
- Teen’s wheelchair back flip sets world record
- Demands rise to let doctor stay
- First person: ‘Haunted by my lost son’
- Column: Palin fruit fly remark is ‘bad buzz’
- UK woman loses assisted suicide bid
- South Korean court: Only blind people can be masseurs
- Pundit: Lack of Palin records raises questions about Trig
- Women with disabilities at high risk for abuse, assault
- Australia denies doctor residency because of son’s disability
- Palin’s ‘major policy’ speech: Vague promises, no platform
- Fact check: Would Obama plan hurt special needs trusts?
- Op-ed: Palin doesn’t speak for ‘special needs children’
- Op-ed: Palin speaks for ‘special needs children’
- Op-ed: Palin, McCain should oppose Medicaid cuts
- Editorial: Vaccination requirements must be enforced
- Op-ed: Palin shows Obama how to transcend culture wars
- Op-ed: Eight reasons to reject Amendment 51
- Opinion: Palin speech omits words like ‘disability,’ ‘Medicaid’
- Paul Offit: ‘Autism’s False Prophets’
- Localities angry at special ed funding cuts
- Ceremony adapted to celebrate a young man’s life
- Man with disability fights to live in college dorm
- ‘Gene chip’ prenatal tests cause controversy
- Column: Abortion guilt may trigger hostility toward Palin
- Students with disabilities face tricky transition to college
- Denis Leary comments anger Emerson alumni
- ‘Sibshops’ help siblings of kids with autism
- Obama campaign refutes Palin tax claim
- For expectant families, agonizing choices
- ’10 Myths about Autism’
- Families of children with disabilities fall through health care gaps
- Does Obama plan target special needs trusts?
- Palin details plan to help kids with ‘special needs’
- Palin disability speech previewed
- Op-ed: Palin no friend of people with disabilities
- Palin disability speech expected
- One mom shares experience with DS
- Columnist: Palin faces ‘hatred’ for having child with DS
- Op-ed: More GA parents using special ed vouchers
- Palin: Trig’s DS is manifestation of God’s will
- Blind band will be first in Rose Parade history
- Teen who killed himself at school had learning disability
- Parents home school to avoid vaccines, fearing autism
- ‘Love and agony’ for Colorado parents awaiting services
- Column: Palin using Trig as political prop
- Man with disabilities dies unaided, lost in DC’s bureaucratic maze
- Palin opposes Colorado tax to help people with disabilities
- Last Best Buddies Ball goes out in a blaze of glitz
- Columnist calls for ‘clear policy on euthanasia’
- City honors ‘inspiring’ boy who sought peace
- Staff no-shows blamed for special ed backlog in DC
- Your campaign snapshots: Take 6
- McCain remarks on autism win disapproval among families
- Parents lobbying for autism insurance mandates
- Mom looking for home for 37-year-old son with autism
- Man with disabilities lives in terror after attacks, torture
- Goodwill fined in death of worker with disabilities
- One mom’s choice: Hide son’s condition — even from him
- Illinois girl with DS wins homecoming crown, peers’ respect
- Column: Why liberal women loathe Sarah Palin
- Editorial: Parents fought ‘losing battle’ to keep institution open
- Tot with autism left on school bus 6 hours
- Celebrity talks about his ADHD
- Parents lobby for autism insurance mandates
- Disability protests loom over Mass. budget cuts
- Police probe ‘assisted suicide’ of UK rugby star
- How to reach teenagers with autism?
- Ex-CEO with Asperger’s explains it all
- Experts challenge overuse of school ‘time-out’ rooms
- Column: ‘My son is not a political pawn’
- Op-ed: Palin should follow JFK’s example
- Madonna knocks Ritchie as ‘emotionally retarded’
- ‘Mental retardation’ dropped from state agency name
- Disability advocacy groups fight offensive language
- Palin has mixed record on ‘special needs kids’
- Did John McCain confuse autism with Down syndrome?
- International advocates seek autism support
- Palin understands ‘very special needs children,’ McCain says
- Suspects charged with ‘assault motivated by bias’
- Doctors are prejudiced against babies with DS, columnists say
- Students with disabilities want ‘safe areas’ at school
- Man with disabilities is tortured, left for dead; 4 charged
- ‘Simple Jack’ popular for Halloween, survey says
- Denis Leary: Kids with autism are ‘just stupid’
- SNL skit lampoons character with disabilities
- ‘No child’ rule penalizes school for kids with disabilities
- Families of people with DS ‘flock’ to Palin rallies
- Homecoming queen with DS featured on ABC News
- ‘Little person no more’
- Palin, McCain sending mixed messages on disability funding?
- NJ report: Help people with dual diagnoses
- Voters to decide on ‘idiot’ clause in Iowa law
- A review of ‘The Voice: A Memoir’
- Bureaucratic snarls keep kids from health care
- New York pushing to create special-needs schools
- Gordon Brown’s eyesight reported failing
- Adults with disabilities: What happens when parents die?
- Op-ed: ‘No plan for the mentally retarded’
- Palin links disability, abortion
- Homeless man burned to death in LA; Mentally ill?
- Applicants wait years for OK on disability benefits
- Economic woes endanger jobs for people with disabilities
- Students choose classmate with DS as homecoming queen
- ‘The Deaf Issue’
- Palin links disability advocacy with pro-life stance
- Opinion: Informed consent needed in prenatal DS testing
- Columnist raps public ‘intolerance for imperfection’
- ‘Dancing with the Stars’ pro leads class for people with DS
- No place like home for injured veterans
- Editorial: Law is ‘key investment’ in mental health care
- Special needs planning — What happens when parents die?
- It’s official: President signs disability diagnosis bill
- Disabled workers at disadvantage in job market
- Exhibit teaches about living with blindness
- Editorial: ‘Who will help disabled as cuts destroy lives?’
- ‘Life as a disabled gamer’
- Column: Redskins ruling lacks common sense
- ‘Elderspeak’: Belittling language can damage health
- Additional items for Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008
- Op-ed: Where’s Palin’s disability agenda?
- Pratchett: End Alzheimer’s stigma
- High court declines Paralympic bias case
- Hollywood performers unveil disability rights initiative
- State programs for people with disabilities face cuts
- Scientists promise ‘safer’ prenatal test for Down syndrome
- Top UK prosecutor: Crack down on disability hate crime
- Cardinal hails Trig as symbol of antiabortion fight
- Obit: Edward Klima, 77, identified signing as complex language
- Longmore: Palin talks about ‘special needs children,’ but …
- Mental health parity passes with bailout bill
- Paralympic champ faces stigma at home
- Advocates: Boost voter turnout among people with disabilities
- Little people gather, share lives
- Gallaudet opening itself to the world
- Survey: One in four Americans thinks vaccines cause autism
- ‘Blindness’ movie opens to protests
- Op-ed: Let’s change our focus regarding Down syndrome
- Op-ed: Trig is turning the tide
- Complaint says district shortchanges students with disabilities
- CDC finds racial disparities in health of people with disabilities
- Author says ‘Blindness’ criticism is unfounded
- Where are the questions about disability issues?
- Additional items for Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008
- News is bleak for Disability Employment Awareness Month
- Controversy over PETA billboard linking milk, autism
- As VP debate looms, coverage of Palin and disability
- Separate gym offers ‘safer’ workout to people with disabilities
- ‘Karaoke group shows the power of song’
- Charity: New technology could better support people with LD
- Actresses ‘duke it out’ over vaccines, autism
- Financial planning for kids with disabilities
- Ex-Yankee still pitching — for people with disabilities
- Activists plan protest of movie ‘Blindness’
- Sam Brownback: Special needs call for special attention
- New priorities needed in Down syndrome research, writer says
- ‘Prom king with Down syndrome goes to college’
- Toronto private school serves kids with learning disabilities
- After lawsuit, MA improves disability access at State House
- Jenny McCarthy: Autism ‘vaccine injuries’ can be healed
- Columnist: ‘Even child murderer may deserve compassion’
- Additional items for Monday, Sept. 29, 2008
- Parents abandoning kids under Nebraska safe haven law
- ADA Amendments Act signing photo released
- Proposed group home project draws ire in Tennessee
- Point-counterpoint on grad requirements for kids with disabilities
- ‘Parents in name only’
- Colorado voters consider measure to reduce waiting lists
- ‘Rare disease, rarer minds’
- Woman with Down syndrome: ‘I have a great life’
- Op-ed: ‘Nobody has a duty to die’
- Column: Campaigns need to get specific on disability issues
- Op-ed: Palin lifts disability profile, but more work is needed
- Walgreens plant to focus on people with disabilities
- Under pressure, Apple agrees to make iTunes more accessible
- Santorum: ‘Imperfect’ children remind us of deeper truths
- Athlete Brad Hennefer will teach golf to New York buddies
- Parents adjust employment for children with disabilities
- UN forum focuses attention on autism
- Your campaign snapshots: Take 5
- Court: Those who assist in suicide can still inherit
- Controversy over ‘duty to die’ comments
- Congress OKs Kennedy-Brownback disability diagnosis bill
- ‘The special-needs kindergarten crunch’
- President Bush joined by his father at ADA bill signing
- Parents describe challenges after murder of girl with CP
- Congress moves closer to mental health parity
- Sequenom shares jump after new DS test data announced
- Senate passes disability diagnosis bill
- Drug research hints at reversal of autism, Fragile X symptoms
- VA to quadruple benefits for brain trauma
- Millions will go into creating institute for Down syndrome
- Op-ed: Palin offers ‘empty promises to desperate families’
- Additional Items for September 22, 2008
- Genevieve’s dad: ‘I’m always capable of more than I think I am’
- Books: ‘Autism’s false prophets’ by Paul A. Offit
- Books: ‘Deaf Sentence’ by David Lodge
- Editorial: Approval for ‘landmark’ civil rights legislation
- Plans to privatize mental health care in Georgia raise questions
- More actors with disabilities are seen on TV
- Editorial: ‘Friendship’ from Palin is not enough
- Additional items for September 21, 2008
- Google co-founder says genetic test links him to Parkinson’s
- Florida Medicaid recipients challenge nursing homes
- Opinion: McCain doesn’t offer anything to people with disabilities
- Opinion: Public should know if Palin considered abortion
- Columnists: ‘Palin belongs at home, not in Washington’
- Disability claims at Long Island Rail Road called ‘epidemic’
- Your campaign snapshots: Take 4
- Technology helps kids in hospitals attend school with peers
- Feds drop controversial chelation study
- Investigators: Minnesota facility improperly handcuffed residents
- Summing up the Paralympics
- The renaissance of the word ‘retard’
- In South Korea, concerns over livelihood for blind people
- Brownback fails to revive disability diagnosis bill
- Breaking news: Kennedy-Brownback bill …
- Legislators ‘on special mission’ with kids with Down syndrome
- Opinion: Kids in special ed should have different exit exam goals
- NPR: Students with disabilities prepare for college
- Barney Frank confronts disability protesters; 15 arrested
- Op-ed: ‘The value of these precious lives’
- Op-ed: Palin exploited Trig for political gain
- House passes ADA expansion bill
- Additional items for Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2008
- Paralympic games end with a sizzle
- Column: Palin using her child as political prop
- Your campaign snapshots: Take 3
- Op-ed: Palin advances humanity of people with disabilities
- Research prompts dispute between Down syndrome groups
- Expert’s new book defends vaccines against autism critics
- Finding a college for students with special needs
- Paralympic equestrian star ‘was given up for dead’
- Advocates: Insurers should pay share of autism therapy
- Specific diagnoses — not commonalities — new advocacy focus
- Film festival promotes disability awareness, appreciation
- Disability rights group stages protests in DC area
- ‘Why disabled techies rock’
- ‘Opening new worlds: The disability boom’
- Student restraints: Parents, teachers voice concerns
- Paul Longmore: An open letter to disability rights constituency
- Op-ed: GOP wants to close doors on stem cell research
- Families balance life with Down syndrome
- Paralympics struggles to define disability
- Rud and Ann Turnbull: Disability community, beware of Palin
- Columnist questions graduation exams for kids with disabilities
- Op-ed: ‘Howe to close, at last’
- Congressional candidate has ‘compelling back story’
- Traveling with autism
- Researchers: Tests for Down syndrome pose risks to all babies
- Families tell of life with Down syndrome
- Under fire, Virginia drops plan to curb parent input in special ed
- A journey to college with autism, depression
- Gerson on Sarah Palin’s ‘bad example’
- ‘Divers go deep to overcome disabilities’
- Letter to the editor: Proposed budget cuts would destroy lives
- Soccer player ejected from Paralympics: Not disabled enough
- USOC seeks federal funds; Some veterans wary
- Senate approves ADA expansion
- ‘Welcome to the special needs club’
- Top Canadian MD worried about Palin’s impact on abortions
- Your campaign snapshots: Take 2
- Dem leader apologizes for Palin abortion remark
- McCain’s now a co-sponsor of disability diagnosis bill GOP killed
- Parents: Doctors need more care counseling expectant parents
- Your campaign snapshots: Take 1
- SC colleges welcome students with intellectual disabilities
- Stem-cell issue energizes race
- Family featured on ‘Limbaugh’
- Inconsistent disability services force families to move
- CA says students with disabilities bring down exit exam scores
- Gerson: Trig Palin is a ‘civil rights leader’
- Palin, disability and Down syndrome, September 9, 2008
- Paralympics wheelchair racers crash; Race to be repeated
- Factcheckers: Many claims about Palin are false, misleading
- Editorial: Debunking an autism theory
- Kentucky works to keep embattled institution open
- Washington state mental health care is ‘gravely disabled’
- Michigan fans rave about accessible stadium seats
- Georgia schools chief wins cash for kids with disabilities
- Sightings on the campaign trail
- MTV awards host: Bush is ‘retarded cowboy’
- Palin, disability and Down syndrome: Sept. 8, 2008
- Families hope Palin candidacy will raise disability awareness
- Paralympics opening ceremony dazzles
- Palin, disability and Down syndrome: Sept. 7, 2008
- From Slate.com, a cartoon by Glenn McCoy
- Paralympians accuse USOC of discrimination, funding inequity
- Disability advocates warily optimistic about Palin’s pledge
- Questions, we get questions
- Palin and Down syndrome: Coverage soars
- Closing rumored for troubled Illinois instititutions
- Opinion: Fellow Wasilla mom says Palin putting kids at risk
- Columnist: Sarah Palin is hypocritical on reproductive choice
- ‘Sarah Palin’s family drama’
- Disability theme emerges anew at Republican convention
- Guest commentary on Palin: ‘We need more than a photo-op’
- Beijing welcomes Paralympics; Stigma persists
- Your thoughts, please!
- New study: Measles vaccine doesn’t cause autism
- Three words for those who wonder …
- Palin pledges support for families with special needs
- Special ed still lags in DC, falls short of court-ordered goals
- He’ll chronicle life with Alzheimer’s
- On Trig Palin: ‘A child with special needs enlarges the world’
- Man with Down syndrome is going for the record; He’s 80
- Additional items for Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2008
- ‘Labeled Disabled’: Film challenges disability myths
- Accessible field helps Georgia kids play ball
- Shriver: Baby Trig could be ‘game changer’ in abortion debate
- Palin candidacy sparks new debate about motherhood
- Additional stories for Monday, Sept. 1, 2008
- Students in special ed must meet Maryland standards for all
- Mother campaigns for medical care for kids with disabilities
- Novelist: ‘You need to take my son to jail’
- Palin says 17-year-old daughter is pregnant
- Column: ‘What’s missing in the R-word debate’
- Horrific institutions in Serbia warehouse people with intellectual disabilities
- Illinois lags on moving people out of institutions
- ‘Palin pick brings boatload of assumptions’: Columnist
- Overheard: Limbaugh jest on Obama, Palin, Down syndrome
- State fails to oversee funds for vulnerable people
- Analysis: Paterson speech was out of character
- Editorial: Accessible e-commerce is good business
- Op-ed: Profit-driven prenatal tests rob women of informed choice
- ‘A nod to Sarah Palin from someone who will never vote for her’
- VP pick excites families of people with Down syndrome
- Palin VP choice puts Roe v. Wade in campaign spotlight
- Palins tell ‘People’ about life with baby Trig
- Additional discussion of ‘Tropic Thunder’ and the ‘R-word’
- Iraq vet: ‘Bush let our warriors down’
- These moms couldn’t find a school, so they started their own
- A note about language for my friends in the media
- AP, CNN, NYT: Palin’s the one
- As McCain chooses running mate, Palin speculation mounts
- Palestinean police find pair with disabilities locked away
- Virginia families seeking more support for people with autism
- Target settles lawsuit over website access
- In Georgia, big changes loom for troubled mental health services
- Disability wasn’t Paterson’s choice for convention speech topic
- Paterson: Obama will ‘open opportunities for the disabled’
- Vote drive serves people with developmental disabilities
- Miami City Hall a classroom for students with disabilities
- Report: Metro Nashville segregates students
- Early Alzheimer’s patients fear stigma
- Writer: Changes needed in Hollywood’s portrayal of disability
- Measles outbreaks soar; Experts blame autism concerns
- NYC residents say housing not accessible
- Public facilities tailor events to people with autism
- Lawsuit filed against New Jersey governor by disability group
- High autism rates among Somali children in Minnesota
- Nebraska law allows abandonment of teens, kids with disabilities
- Group homes face opposition in Tennessee
- McCain backs autism research, higher special ed funding
- Columnist: ‘Not just crass, a word that hurts’
- Judge: Firm must give experimental drug to boy with MD
- Study: Families of kids with disabilities face ‘chilling’ hardships
- Obama pledges full funding for special education
- Op-ed: ‘Tropic Thunder sets back a movement’
- Justice Department announces probe of Texas institutions
- Commentary: Diverse voices on the ‘R-word’
- ‘A Beauty Queen with Cerebral Palsy’
- Unlocking the secret to Mr. C.
- Federal judge dismisses lawsuit over restraints, timeout room
- Abortion foes attack Obama over 2003 Illinois Senate bill
- Relatives plead for home options for Texans with disabilities
- Georgia official apologizes
- Minorities, kids with disabilities more likely to be paddled
- BBC asks: Does disability hate crime exist?
- Georgia official challenges ‘mentally retarded’ living in community; discrimination alleged
- Farms help adults with disabilities develop skills
- Writer: Young people with disabilities need jobs, a chance at life
- Craig Dietz is Michael Phelps — minus the limbs
- Social Security employees claim anti-disability bias
- Op-ed: People with disabilities deserve human rights, not stigma
- U.S. says many NY apartments violate access law
- Downey: ‘Nothing is above satire’
- Op-ed: ‘When words wound’
- Public service announcement calls for ‘Respect’
- Op-ed: People with intellectual disabilities deserve R-E-S-P-E-C-T
- Olympic medalist made swimming history with ADHD
- Aging population presents challenges for caregivers
- Blind Ugandan boxer challenges expectations
- ‘Tropic Thunder’ beats Batman; Shriver speaks out on GMA
- Columnist: Sequenom’s prenatal test fuels big stock jump
- UK leader defends late abortions for disability
- South Africa’s du Toit to compete in Olympics
- Sunday’s crop: ‘Thunder’ commentary
- Presidential hopefuls court voters with disabilities
- Op-eds, letters, coverage of ‘Tropic Thunder’
- Paramount marketing manager gone. Coincidence?
- ‘Tropic Thunder’: My views
- Goldstein: What if Stiller went ‘full-Jew’?
- Disability rights group calls on Stiller to meet
- Parents sue school over suicide of student with disabilities
- Divided opinion on disruptive behavior by kids with autism
- Thousands on waiting lists for disability services
- Op-ed: Tribute to John Mark Stallings
- Debate rages over use of the word ‘retard’ in ‘Tropic Thunder’
- Local protests held in response to ‘Tropic Thunder’
- More coverage of ‘Tropic Thunder’ …
- CNN posts footage of protest at ‘Thunder’ premiere
- ‘Tropic Thunder’ merchandising
- Coverage of ‘Tropic Thunder’ premiere
- Stiller, co-writer say boycott isn’t warranted
- Tim Shriver’s op-ed on ‘Tropic Thunder’
- ‘Tropic Thunder’ boycott expected
- Editorial: ‘Writing Off Disabled Children’
- ‘We cannot ignore the AIDS plight of the disabled’
- What happened to the ‘Simple Jack’ trailer?
- Just the facts … about ‘Tropic Thunder’
- Internet trailer features footage of Simple Jack
- ‘Full retard’ tshirts already on sale
- ‘Tropic Thunder’ screenings postponed as premiere looms
- Museum posts news video remembering John Mark Stallings
- Marine returns to combat duty after amputation
- ‘Disabled, but not enough for job protections’
- Connecticut program teaches young adults to live on their own
- Higher-ed bill would assist students with disabilities
- ‘Thunder showings set in wake of complaints’
- ‘Tropic Thunder’ meeting called productive; Talks ongoing
- Op-ed: Exit exams benefit students with disabilities
- Mental patients turned away from Atlanta’s Grady Hospital
- The Arc memo: Prepare for ‘massive action’ on ‘Tropic Thunder’
- Oregon insurer will pay for suicide drugs, not cancer treatment
- Blind skaters get access to rink
- Public health experts: National registries needed
- Seattle ACCESS clients stranded when buses don’t show
- Blind teens say ice rink denied them access; Police called
- Son with autism left on school bus; Parents sue
- UK charity: People with disabilities have right to sexuality
- Celebrities battle over vaccines
- Sex abuse charges trail Mel Levine, expert on learning disabilities
- Variety: ‘Tropic Thunder’ promo pulled after complaints
- UK celebrity calls for mental health pride
- New York eying changes in IEP diplomas
- Op-ed: ‘McCain should show more courage on disabilities’
- Seven Philly employees suspended in death of disabled teen
- Coincidence?
- Readers: What’s your advice on ‘Tropic Thunder’?
- People with disabilities often wait years for Social Security
- Higher ed bill would improve access for students with disabilities
- Q&A with Ms.Wheelchair America
- ‘Sorry, Mr. Stiller … You’ve crossed the line’
- Obit: John Mark Stallings, son of former UA football coach
- Parents, system blamed for starvation of teen with disabilities
- ‘Tropic Thunder’ update
- Disability rights groups organizing over ‘Tropic Thunder’
- Senate ADA Amendments bill has 63 co-sponsors
- ‘Never go full retard’
- Tropic Thunder: ‘Once upon a time … There was a retard’
- Federal inspectors: Georgia mental patients in ‘jeopardy’
- Girl pleads guilty to torturing teen with disabilities
- Court orders Mervyns to provide access
- Court testimony: Mom threatened suicide over son’s disabilities
- In Switzerland, people with disabilities have an easier path
- Column: McCain’s VP pick ‘could save lives’
- ‘Dear Abby’ stands corrected on autism
- ‘How did Chopin die? It matters’
- Genetic testing of kids: What if condition is incurable?
- Higher rates of learning disabilities among adopted children
- Kelly Knox becomes ‘Britain’s Missing Top Model’
- Additional items for Tuesday, July 29, 2008
- Candidates release statements on disability issues
- Pennsylvania high court weakens hate crime protections
- People with learning disabilities dying unnecessarily: UK inquiry
- Pennsylvania autism insurance bill may be nation’s strongest
- Editorial: Renaming state bureaucracy a waste of sensitivity
- Editorial: Sex life has no place in disability discrimination claim
- ‘Swimmer losing sight, gains insight’
- Injured vets pull Cheney invitation over security demands
- Kennedy-Brownback bill dies in Senate spending showdown
- Latest Alzheimer’s coverage
- ‘Disabled youngsters forced into marriage to provide passports’
- Additional items for Sunday, July 27, 2008
- Columnist: ADA is good law used for bad purpose
- Dad creates system to help parents of kids with ADHD
- Atlanta’s Judd, Miller honored for mental health reporting
- Teri Garr back in the movies after MS, aneurysm
- McCain supports expanded ADA
- Q&A: Judy Woodruff on life with disabilities
- Michael Savage conversation continues …
- Coverage of the ADA’s 18th anniversary
- Poland: Don’t test Chopin’s heart for cystic fibrosis
- Man with autism starts his own small business
- Advocates: ‘We deserve Community Choice Act’
- Racing together
- Woman ‘overcomes challenges’ to open her own business
- Syndicator backs Savage; Cleveland station dumps him
- Italy to charge Google execs over video taunting incident
- ‘Keeping our promise to Americans with disabilities’
- Concerns raised over proposed ADA regulations
- More Canadians with disabilities finding work
- Flying can be a rough ride for kids with autism
- Book review: Singer’s memoir documents life with disability
- Editorial: Radio host is ‘clueless and cruel’
- Disability rights advocates seek law opening access to sports
- ‘Who’ll be the first to offer disabled people a job?’
- Spending on veterans exceeds 1947 high
- GAO report: Disabled truck, bus drivers pose safety threat
- ‘Court: Disability laws protect those unable to have sex’
- Chicago Trib asks: Are African-Americans more likely than others to abuse disabled parking?
- Man gets prison in ID theft of man with Down syndrome
- Disability rights advocates rally in Washington
- More than you wanted to know about Michael Savage
- Venture program under fire
- Companies increasingly support workers with disabilities
- Savage defends autism remarks
- Boston mayor probes suspicious disability claims
- To get help, people with mental illness go to jail
- Actress apologizes for vaccine ‘parasite’ remark
- Opinion: Voices of people with Alzheimer’s must be heard
- Autism advocates want talk show host’s job
- Editorial: Better care needed for Texans with mental disabilities
- Cities making playgrounds more accessible
- Writer: Expectant parents need accurate information
- Two powerful books about life, love … and disability
- Columnist: ‘In vitro we trust’
- Man led multimillion-dollar drug ring from his wheelchair
- Columnist: Sarah Palin should be on McCain short list
- Delaware gubernatorial candidates joust at disability forum
- Special Olympics marks 40th anniversary
- Commentary: Where’s the support for adults with autism?
- ‘Bodybuilding firefighter ordered back to work’
- Pistorius won’t compete in Beijing Olympics
- ‘Disabled’ firefighter competes in bodybuilding contest
- Op-ed: ‘Reaching out to the disabled’
- ‘General Hospital’ star embraces bipolar condition
- ‘Netherlands’ health care reflects national values’
- European court bans job bias against caregivers
- Influential British mom: Selective termination is genocide
- ‘Advocating for a treatment, but denied access to it’
- Officials accused of bilking disability adoption funds
- Five Emmy nominations for ‘Autism: The Musical’
- Special Olympics founder recalls 40 years of progress
- Teacher gets probation for taping special ed student to chair
- Pistorius fails in Olympic bid; Legal action threatened
- ‘Policing kids with autism is a new challenge on the beat’
- ‘This Disability Pride Month, something to be happy about’
- Ten-year sentence in adoption fraud; Abuse charges pending
- Additional items for July 15, 2008
- U.S. wheelchair rugby team favored in Paralympics
- ‘German geneticists condemn Nazi eugenics program’
- New technologies could help people with impaired vision get jobs
- Audit: Texas failing at helping people leave institutions
- Donations will send athletes to Deaflympics
- Experts alarmed by stem-cell tourism
- Op-ed: ‘Why mess with the ADA?’
- McCartney boosts Paralympic fundraising effort
- Schools increasingly using restraints on students with disabilities
- Editorial: ‘Stop parking tag abuse’
- Medical costs for children with disabilities: Rankings by state
- Preparing for the Paralympics
- California schools lack plan for autism; local districts threatened
- Illinois governor wants insurers to pay for autism treatment
- Looking for love
- Shriver’s job program may be undermined by budget cuts
- MIT professor seeks to recover after brain injury
- U.S. athletes prepare for Paralympic games
- Pennsylvania governor signs autism insurance bill
- California groups suing over Medicaid cuts
- Presidential forum on disabilities planned
- ‘Autism gene search turns up hope for treatment’
- Fighting stigma with a ‘Positive Exposure’
- Utahns protest lack of funding for school for deaf, blind students
- Additional items for July 9, 2008
- Kids’ autism shown to affect parents’ employment
- Congressional reps link autism, dental fillings
- House speaker’s rostrum to be wheelchair accessible
- Massachusetts OKs measure to rename DMR, remove stigma
- Survey: Americans would rather be dead than disabled
- Commentary on ‘Britain’s Missing Top Model’
- ‘Fringe autism treatment could get federal study’
- Court upholds bias finding in Wal-Mart disability case
- Studio shares passion for performing
- Students with autism get help in college
- ‘The love pact that saved Christopher Reeve’
- D.C. council members lash out at care providers
- At first town meeting, McCain opposes Community Choice Act
- Scientists seek ways to diagnose autism earlier
- Additional items for July 7, 2008
- Researchers say drugs may fight developmental disabilities
- ‘Raising a child with Down syndrome’
- Former residents bear witness to their lives in an institution
- Op-ed: ‘Let’s be respectful’
- Kennedy’s speech displays rare disorder
- ‘Leveraging the strengths of the disabled’
- Missionaries reaching out to people with impaired hearing
- ‘Getting on disability is a real pain’
- Despite good intentions, ‘disability dolls’ stir fury in parents
- Fixing Georgia mental health system would carry a big pricetag
- Op-ed: ‘Targeting the womb, Down syndrome, disabilities’
- In UK, ban sought on abortions for cleft palate, club foot
- ‘Avoidable turbulence’
- Canadian disability advocates rally in defense of teenager
- ‘We need to see America through Connor Gifford’s eyes’
- ‘Who pays for autism treatment?’
- It’s revolutionary. It’s ultra-stylish. It’s a wheelchair.
- More accessible playgrounds are planned
- Ohio groups consider dropping ‘retardation’
- Editorial: ‘Unimpaired rights’
- Additional items for July 5, 2008
- Time magazine: Disabled model show called ‘reality TV hit’
- ‘Blind Ambition: The Ultimate Braille Challenge’
- Miss Deaf Texas calls for better education
- UK colleges expand job access for students with disabilities
- Advocates say parking permits widely abused
- Award-winning novelist explores Turner syndrome
- Blind park ranger illuminates Boston’s rich history
- Additional items for July 4, 2008
- Video of ‘Britain’s Missing Top Model’…
- Psych patients face day-long waits in hospital ERs
- Father pursues class-action status for autism suit
- ‘Brothers handle newfound celebrity, sixth grade with aplomb’
- Fragile X may hold secrets to autism
- Louisiana governor signs autism bill
- Gov. David Paterson reflects on life with disability
- Go ahead and stare …
- Pact grants new housing options to Georgians with disabilities
- 1,000 march in Dallas to advocate for blind people
- Currency lawsuit motivated by love, not money
- Healthy woman’s assisted suicide renews ‘right to die’ debate
- Researcher caught between controversy, daughter’s autism
- Deaf advocacy groups disagree over use of sign, technology
- Mental patient dies, ignored, in hospital waiting room
- Church ban of teen with autism fuels new debate
- Embryo screening? Been there, done that, doctors say
- Deputy in wheelchair jail case won’t go on trial
- Mom charged with withholding chemo from son with autism
- Lawsuit: Georgia’s slow Medicaid appeals violate law
- Fonz adds glitter to British reading launch
- Parents fight for treatment of daughter with Tay-Sachs
- ‘Editorial: Is the standard fair?’
- ‘Can a disabled model make it in fashion?’
- HBO developing ‘Manic’
- ABC series will include actor with Down syndrome
- Columnist: Caregivers need help
- ‘Through decades of change, a core crew remains’
- Australian newscaster stirs up euthanasia debate
- Students who can see learn Braille with peers who can’t
- Restraining order upheld; Church can bar boy with autism
- ‘Breast cancer-free’ baby claims called misleading, troubling
- British woman says she conceived ‘breast cancer free’ baby
- ‘Mind-altering drugs and the problem child’
- Review: Firsthand accounts of life with disabilities are ‘riveting’
- Athletes disabled by war lead Iraqi Paralympic team
- Brutal attack prompts hate crime bill in Ohio
- State Rep. Thomas Kennedy poised for new achievement
- In Scotland, earlier and more accurate prenatal testing for DS
- ‘Smiling through’
- Advocates: NY law on service animals permits abuse
- 3 major care providers leave DC, saying pay is too low
- Gallaudet accreditation to be reaffirmed
- U.S. firm makes dolls with appearance of Down syndrome
- Fan with cerebral palsy undertakes ‘Longest Walk in Golf’
- Op-ed: ‘People with disabilities under-represented in work force’
- Marines with injuries find strength, purpose in athletics
- Court ruling brings hope for more Medicaid services in Georgia
- Op-ed: ‘Antiquated DMR name long overdue for change’
- Op-ed: ‘Updating the disabilities act lets us share good fortune’
- New reality show: Britain’s Missing Top Model
- ‘Disabled groups say little has changed in China’
- Columnist: Using ‘retarded’ as a derogatory term is offensive
- Russia looks to end isolation of those with disabilities
- Harriet McBryde Johnson: ‘A life worth living’
- Federal judge: Denial of Santa visit violated ADA
- Michigan parents upset over bigger special education classes
- Editorial: ‘The test of services should be whether students benefit’
- Flight returns to gate, ejects boy with autism
- ‘Krystal’s big break; Canada’s newest film star aims for the top’
- House votes to expand disability rights
- Report: Children in Louisiana group homes are at risk
- Volunteers with disabilities share insights with kids
- ‘Neglected’ diseases threaten poor, cause disabilities
- ‘Are disability dolls a blessing or a sick joke?’
- British dance group promotes inclusiveness in Cambodia
- ‘U.S. reluctance to sign treaty on disabilities is painful, puzzing’
- Op-Ed: ‘Displaced, disabled and in need of our care’
- ‘Days of Our Lives’ introduces autism plot
- CA amusement park cancels ‘cuts’ for guests with disabilities
- Mom challenges stereotypes about spinal cord injuries
- ‘Blind advocates raise concerns about silent vehicles’
- Obit: Producer of Oscar-winning film had dyslexia
- Additional items for June 23, 2008
- ‘Family Meal: The birthday lunch that never grew up, until …’
- Staying fit on wheels
- ‘A band rocking and rolling past a few barriers’
- Deaf rider frustrated by Washington Metro system
- Sarah Palin: Possible McCain VP pick?
- ‘Loved and cherished, she thrives’
- UCP report ranks Mississippi first in institutionalizing people
- Opinion: Blood screens may increase abortions, protect choice
- Researchers help kids with disabilities learn to ride bikes
- Disability program graduation called historic
- ‘A risk-free blood test for Down syndrome in pregnancy’
- Letter: Outdated perceptions pose threat to DS population
- ‘Reality dance show puts Rett syndrome in the spotlight’
- Quebec boy with autism smothered while restrained in class
- Women found guilty in ‘mercy killing’ of man with Alzheimer’s
- California dad sues district over restraint of boy with autism
- Disability employment awareness effort launched
- Compromise disability bill sails through committees
- Bert Shepard, 87: Played major league ball with just one leg
- Editorial: State shouldn’t interfere in care of kids with disabilities
- IG blasts NY agencies for ‘shoddy’ probe in abuse of disabled boy
- Sales lag for wheelchair tickets at Michigan Stadium
- Students with autism missing from yearbook; Parents complain
- ‘Should I vaccinate my baby?’
- ‘Learning to be happy’
- ‘Cindy McCain in Vietnam on cleft palates mission’
- ‘Gathering gives little people a taste of being average’
- Dads form autism support group
- ‘Given chance to help others, Peer Buddies blossom’
- A dose of ‘Deadly Medicine’
- Court cuts sentences for killers of disabled man
- Ruling expected in VA mental health care lawsuit
- Technology denies access to people who can’t see, hear
- ‘Camera’s eye shows perspective of special students’
- Campers with cancer share fun, friendship at Camp Sunshine
- Cheerleader with Down syndrome, coach win national award
- In Florida, another Schiavo case?
- Universal design attracting homebuyers
- Tracy Ashton: Actress on ‘My Name is Earl’
- ‘Mom upset over seating snafu’
- Proposed federal rules would ease ADA for colleges
- ‘A disabled swimmer’s dream, a mother’s fight’
- ADA compromise on fast track in Congress
- Parents pursue nondrug treatments for ADHD, but data is scarce
- Report: Virginia falling short in serving youth with disabilities
- Doctors alarmed by availability of OTC chelation agents
- NY Press Club honors WSJ series on inclusion
- Australian TV host’s slur stirs ire; then his brother with DS dies
- Rosalynn Carter: Georgia mental health cuts ‘unconscionable’
- Veterans face devastating waits for disability benefits
- NYC schools start posting special ed info online
- Judge rules Georgia can’t deny kids Medicaid services
- U.S. push to expand access brings fears of business backlash
- Man with Down syndrome skydives with his dad
- Special needs are costly as districts pay for private tuition
- Stilt walker nears 830-mile mark in fundraiser for UCP
- Editorial: Milwaukee should settle special ed case
- Editorial: Tax equity needed for people with disabilities
- New law will let students with disabilities walk at graduation
- Introducing the Class of 2008
- Students with disabilities earn advanced degrees
- Virginia parents worry about proposed special ed rule change
- Maryland schools tailor teaching to kids with Asperger’s
- Movie review: ‘Quid Pro Quo’
- Supporters press assisted suicide ballot measure
- Administration to propose more disability access
- Teens lobby for curriculum on disability rights
- Small business owners in SF rail against ADA lawsuits
- Children with mental illness endure long hospital waits
- Op-ed: ‘Why I’m uneasy about assisted suicide case’
- Shortage of teachers for blind, visually impaired students
- Earlier diagnosis creating Alzheimer’s movement
- Differences in common for trio of valedictorians
- Harriet McBryde Johnson: An appreciation
- Can volunteering help people with Alzheimer’s?
- Wisconsin high court allows taped evidence in abuse case
- UK unveils memorial to Nazis’ disabled victims
- Communities of faith welcome people with special needs
- Autism advocates looking for acceptance, not cure
- School district: Special ed caused $1 million shortage
- Study finds black market for disabled parking in Britain
- Op-ed: People with mental illness need involuntary treatment
- Tough choices for aging parents, adult children with disabilities
- Wal-Mart pays $250,000 to fired worker with disabilities
- Letter: ‘Use abortion to eliminate problems’
- American woman working hard for Iraqis with disabilities
- Columnists: Is inclusion worth it?
- Teacher faces five years in prison; Bound and gagged student
- Teens with disabilities are celebrated at graduation
- Patient websites offer support to patients, families
- Britain cuts funding for deaf athletes
- Teen wrestler with cerebral palsy embraces competition
- Earthquake survivors with disabilities face stigma, barriers
- Pentagon considers Purple Hearts for PTSD
- Dad offers tips on including kids in school
- Albinos face harm, stigma in Africa
- Georgian pioneered changes in disability services
- Spy Museum now more accessible
- Australian senator values daughter with Down syndrome
- Kids with special needs get their own movie time
- Grandfather builds browser for boy with autism
- Writer: ‘I half-hoped that I might miscarry’
- Columnist: People with disabilities can be sexy
- Sequenom stock again up sharply on news of DS test
- Bollywood film raises awareness about touchy issue
- Ballerina dances in wheelchair, advocates for change
- ‘One Stare’ photos on display at Kennedy Center
- Graduation season brings joy, celebration — and cliches
- Georgia mental health care deficient, Justice Department says
- Harriet McBryde Johnson, 50: Attorney, disability rights advocate
- Shares of Sequenom surge amid news of early blood test for DS
- Washington-area students with disabilities stage separate prom
- Shortage of dental care worsening for people with disabilities
- Jenny McCarthy, Jim Carrey to lead ‘Green Vaccine’ rally
- ‘For blind clerk, the sky’s the limit’
- Australian TV network apologizes for slur on Down syndrome
- Olympic organizers apologize for ‘inappropriate language’
- Polish professor: Chopin had cystic fibrosis
- Mother embraces challenges, joys of daughter with disability
- TV writer: How doctors betrayed my brother with Down syndrome
- When thumbs up is no comfort
- Disability, religion and inclusion
- Families fight closure of Maryland’s Rosewood institution
- For people with Down syndrome, longer life has complications
- It’s tough out there
- ‘Lorenzo’s Oil’ subject dead at age 30
- Psychologist on Alex Barton case: Teachers need training
- What happened to Ricky
- Beijing withdraws advice on disabilities
- Hospital to pay $1 million in case of man dumped in gutter
- Columnist: How we really help Ted
- LA County sued over treatment of inmates with disabilities
- Commentary on voting 5-year-old out of class
- Teacher defends having class vote 5-year-old out
- To screen or not to screen
- Pre-term births, most by C-section, on the rise in U.S.
- NY Gov. Paterson says he tried to hide disability
- ‘How my son spread the measles’
- Utah man ‘represents’ for people with disabilities on national TV
- Hamilton Jordan: An appreciation
- Disabled groups outraged by Beijing snub
- Students vote to eject boy with behavior problems
- Maysoon Zayid: Comedian without borders
- School board drops special ed gag orders
- Health of childhood cancer survivors still at risk
- Autistic and proud
- Op-ed: ‘We’re hiding from the truth; eugenics lives on’
- Shurvon Phillip, the sergeant lost within
- Op-ed: ‘Autism, church and respect for the social contract’
- ‘How’s Your News’ to MTV
- Stroke leads neuroscientist to new spirituality
- Growing up bipolar
- Writer: ‘Misperceptions, prenatal screening threaten diversity’
- At home with Down syndrome
- Canada newsman: ‘When abortion may be an acceptable choice’
- Athlete with Down syndrome excels, inspires
- President signs bill banning genetic discrimination
- Hate crimes rise against Hispanics, people with disabilities
- Canada redesigning currency to help people with impaired vision
- ‘Blind shop keepers unconvinced of need to change currency’
- Blind people welcome ruling that may help them count cash
- Columnist: Court ruling on currency goes too far
- Iowa blind advocates disagree over court ruling on paper money
- Comments mount on church ban of teen with autism
- Columnist: ‘Sorry, but Pistorius has an unfair advantage’
- Reaction to court ruling on currency bias
- Florida governor signs mandatory autism insurance bill
- ‘Disabled kids: The next civil rights movement?’
- NYC subway breakdowns deny access to those with disabilities
- Court: Currency design is biased against those who can’t see
- Advocates oppose bill’s ban on use of IVF to produce deaf child
- Teen’s ouster from church spurs debate over tolerance, safety
- MP with cleft palate seeks to limit abortions for disabilities
- Book excerpt: Mom celebrates her son, the Hollywood star
- Boy with autism barred from attending church
- Exhibit illuminates disabilities — our own and others’
- Survey finds broad support for physician-assisted suicide
- Court monitor: D.C. group home residents face ‘serious risk’
- Virginia parents lobby to maintain role in special ed decisions
- Hospital unit will serve moms carrying babies with birth defects
- After mountain lion attack, woman adjusts to disfigurement
- Pistorius’ Olympics bid advances
- ‘Choosing eugenics: How far will nations go to eliminate a genetic disease?’
- Author: ‘Medical genetics is not eugenics’
- O’Connor makes plea for Alzheimer’s research
- Young adults with disabilities fall through safety net
- Students develop technology to help people with disabilities
- Canadian dad on hunger strike for better autism care
- Screenwriter seeks to explain ‘Blindness’
- Museum helps people with impaired vision experience art
- Former head of NIH raises new questions about autism, vaccines
- UN celebrates disability treaty
- ‘Mad pride’ activists fight stigma of mental illness
- Veteran disability payments rising as number of veterans falls
- Connecticut OKs autism insurance bill
- ‘Taking a chance on a second child’
- Bowler makes history
- Happy Mom’s Day, from Cathy McMorris Rodgers and son Cole
- Harlan Hahn, 68: USC professor championed disability rights
- All BBC shows now subtitled
- Britain to count adults with autism
- Op-ed: Unthinking allegiance to science masks war on equality
- Young artist with autism expresses emotion in his work
- Lawmakers question competitive bidding for wheelchairs
- Adventurers campaigning for cerebral palsy
- Oklahoma woman, family fight removal of home care
- Texas survey: Youths in custody have mental health problems
- ‘This American Life’ examines man’s quest for independence
- Catholics praise Alaska governor for embracing son with DS
- Hackers assault people with epilepsy online
- Guilty plea in ID theft of man with Down syndrome
- Michigan officials back off on reduction in special ed staffing
- Op-ed: State shows no respect for students in special ed
- Charges dropped in chelation death of boy with autism
- Pistorius on Time’s ‘Influential People’ list
- Barbara Walters reveals troubled relationship with sister
- Who should MDs let die in a pandemic? Panel makes a list
- Adopted youths more likely to have mental disorders
- Research: Autistic kids more likely to have parents with mental illness
- ‘Slow medicine’ allows elderly to control care
- Link between brain injuries, blindness among vets
- Parents called ‘hidden victims’ of autism
- Canadian parents say kids with disabilities face barriers
- Columnist: Efforts to get help lead family down a ‘rabbit hole’
- Long-term ALS survivor demands to be heard
- Systemic abuse reported at Texas psychiatric hospitals
- Veterans with disabilities called ‘unemployable’
- Alaska governor sees ‘perfection’ in her new baby
- Ed Markey pushing for disability-friendly Internet gear
- Santa Monica special ed chief resigns under fire
- Houston honored for accessibility
- Florida disability director quits ‘thankless’ job
- Florida legislature passes autism bill; other disabilities left out
- Students with special needs run top-notch cafe
- Students failing because teachers can’t figure out tests
- Employers must include people with disabilities: EEOC member
- House approves ban on genetic discrimination
- Colleges struggle to help returning veterans
- Seattle special education reforms bring more inclusion
- Wheelchair protest forces RNC lockdown
- Activists in wheelchairs arrested at McCain headquarters
- Student with Asperger’s graduating U-M with double major
- Hockenberry co-hosting new public radio show, ‘The Takeaway’
- Tennessee woman among oldest with Down syndrome
- Former Florida councilman has filed 139 ADA lawsuits
- When crisis hits people with disabilities
- ‘Blindness’ to open Cannes festival
- Special ed teachers go wild on the web
- Aging father agonizes over fate of his son
- Special-needs trust can assure support for kids with disabilities
- ‘Insure your unborn baby’
- ‘Adapting to the possibilities of life’
- Inclusion program working in Florida classrooms
- For adults with intellectual disabilities, an uncertain future
- Parents can’t afford cost of therapy for children’s special needs
- Travelers with disabilities say obstacles starting to fall
- Appliance makers target aging boomers
- Senate OKs bill barring genetic discrimination
- Florida Senate OKs autism insurance bill
- In Moscow, people with disabilities stuck in separate world
- Georgia councilman a ‘lightning rod’ in eugenics debate
- Ban on genetic discrimination expected to pass Senate
- Nascar driver inspired by brother with Down syndrome
- Santa Monica withholds school funds over special ed dispute
- Hospital internship program teaches real-world skills
- Museum exhibit documents sad chapter in Canadian history
- U-Iowa starts post-secondary program for students with disabilities
- Schools try to catch problems early, avoid special ed
- World leaders urged to act on disability rights
- Buddy movement transforming special education
- Technology in mainstream classes helps kids with special needs
- Marlee Matlin eliminated from ‘Dancing with the Stars’
- Heart risk in ADHD drugs?
- ‘What autism studies show isn’t reflected in what candidates say’
- Alaska governor confirms son has Down syndrome
- Governor Palin balances baby, political aspirations
- A blind governor adjusts, and so does Albany
- Reviews for ‘Sweet Nothing in My Ear’
- Frustrated parents build new careers to help their kids with autism
- ‘This I believe’: Daughter with DS has much to teach
- Source: Alaska governor’s baby has Down syndrome
- Pope Benedict offers blessing for children with disabilities
- Columnist: Ignorance masquerades as care
- Newborn screening for cystic fibrosis debuts in Alabama, Ontario
- Scientist hailed as rights advocate in South Korea
- Court: No forced sterilization of woman with intellectual disability
- In California, audit finds local special ed program in turmoil
- New Jersey sued over decade-long waiting list
- Books: ‘Lottery’ explores world of man with intellectual disability
- Yoga appeals to people with disabilities
- You’ve been warned: What NOT to say to people with disabilities
- Computers can be ‘maddening’ for users who are blind
- Study: Some 300,000 recent veterans have depression or PTSD
- Prosecutor apologizes to teen with DS for ‘racist attack’ charge
- Successful adults offer tips on helping kids with ADHD
- Mom: School repeatedly put son in time-out ‘closet’
- Bald teacher loses disability claim
- Dog trainer helps kids with autism
- Texas punishes 800 for abusing state school residents
- Parents increasingly hiring special education advocates
- Newborn screening bill passes House and Senate
- Aging boomers face crisis in geriatric care
- Books: ‘Day by Day’ offers support to siblings
- Boom seen in camps for kids with chronic illnesses
- Stuck behind bars
- Editorial: Help — not jail — needed for people with mental illness
- People with CF now leading longer, healthier lives
- Missouri, Illinois consider insurance coverage for autism
- Columnist: These Olympians are beyond special
- Airport is failing passengers with disabilities, lawsuit says
- Supper club helps kids with autism find friendship
- Op-ed: Biomedicine makes us fear difference
- Actress made sure Hallmark special takes signing seriously
- Op-ed: Cochlear implants lead to transformation of humans
- Author welcomes genomic improvements to humans
- More autism diagnoses: The new fashion?
- Deaf author Ladd urges activism, change
- One family’s ‘Jewel’
- Father: Research needed to explore vaccine-autism connection
- Maryland grants equal opportunities to athletes with disabilities
- Report: Clinical trials miss many populations
- More than 17,000 with disabilities on waiting lists in Maryland
- Remembering Melissa Riggio
- 4,000 with disabilities on Virginia waiting lists
- Melissa Riggio dies at 20; Inspired changes in bookselling, publishing
- Comic advises Paterson to ‘stay blind’
- What to do when Down syndrome is diagnosed?
- California closes institution, integrates residents into community
- Op-ed: Schiavo case reveals lack of interest in disability rights
- TV: ‘Memory Keeper’s Daughter’ premieres this week
- Soccer team a dream come true for children with special needs
- Disabled often wait years for Social Security payments
- Hollywood’s doors opening for actors with disabilities
- UN charter on disabled rights to come into force
- Onley: Disabled workers provide business with competitive edge
- CEO shares tips on ‘faking it until you make it’
- Most Oregon school districts flunk special ed goals
- California students with disabilities now must past exit exams
- New programs help people with disabilities work from home
- Op-ed: Barack Obama vs. Terri Schiavo
- Editorial: Tennessee’s elderly, disabled deserve alternatives to nursing homes
- Op-ed: Don’t shortchange the blind
- Florida governor backs insurance coverage for autism
- California Democrats push autism bills
- Op-ed: The anniversary of autism
- Personal essay: ‘One boy, 3 dogs, 27 years’
- Candidates’ statements for World Autism Awareness Day
- More CNN autism coverage
- Sheriff organizes posse to pursue parking scofflaws
- More students with Asperger’s going to college
- Marking World Autism Awareness Day …
- Self-advocate: ‘Autistics don’t want to be cured’
- Study: A quarter of premature babies show signs of autism
- Column: Adults with autism need attention, care
- NC to require insurance coverage of autism treatments
- Florida nursing home residents sue for care at home
- Students with disabilities face ‘abyss’ after high school
- Iraq wounds leave family divided
- Comeback kid
- Column: Women get skewed data about Down syndrome
- Op-ed: Protect aid for those living with disabilities
- Transition center helps students develop their talents
- Op-ed: ADA restoration is crucial
- Op-ed: Poling autism decision was harmful to public health
- ‘High School Musical’ production promotes inclusion
- Girl with cerebral palsy captures prestigious writing prize
- Column: ‘Disposing of the disabled’
- Column: Will Paterson help improve lives of others with disabilities?
- Federal inquiry stirs new debate about Texas institutions
- A stage of hope
- Dr. Phil advises institutionalization for boy with DS, autism
- Columnist: ‘My dislike for this woman goes beyond her disability’
- ‘Hand in hand’ ballet from China
- Modern slavery: Woman with Down syndrome is offered for sale
- ‘When a baby is destined to die’
- Premature births cause lasting harm, disabilities, study finds
- Editorial: Who cares for the elderly?
- Aging U.S. population faces shortage of geriatricians
- Mentally ill strain Georgia prisons
- ‘The lives they left behind: Suitcases from a state hospital attic’
- Op-ed: Vaccine’s benefits outweigh dangers
- Mom-to-be waits and worries over Down syndrome test
- Critical praise for ‘Autism: The musical’
- Parents fight to get insurance coverage for autism therapy
- YMCA, Austin family spar over care of boy with diabetes
- Workers with disabilities feel vulnerable as jobs vanish
- ‘Couple experiences triumphing miracles’
- Letter: ‘Illinois neglects special-needs citizens’
- Paterson a person, not a ‘disability case’
- Just what should ‘paratransit’ parallel?
- Op-ed: Getting out of a nursing home just got harder
- Op-ed: Acceptance builds an inclusive society
- The boy the bullies love to beat up, repeatedly
- Man fired for unbought snack goes back to work
- HBO debut of ‘Autism: The musical’
- Thalidomide compensation battle goes on
- Autism is everywhere — once again
- Practicing patients
- The tyranny of normal
- Politically correct eugenics
- Op-ed: Letting go is a struggle, but it’s the right thing
- Woman’s death reignites French euthanasia debate
- Agreement will allow hundreds to live more independently
- On World Down Syndrome Day …
- California bill would give disabled parking to pregnant women
- How the military has repaid Iraq vets with permanent disabilities
- Wounded vets trying out for Paralympics
- Public health risk seen as parents reject vaccines
- Living dangerously with cystic fibrosis
- ‘Small boy has mighty heart’
- ‘Heredity and Hope: The case for genetic screening’
- Dozens of slave workers reported freed in China
- The long and short of Marfan syndrome
- Op-ed: Governor has let down Georgians with disabilities
- Parent defends Ohio autism program
- Op-ed: Give us answers on vaccines
- Op-ed: People with Down syndrome deserve celebration
- Obesity takes toll: More youngsters face chronic illness
- Feds: Nebraska institution violates rights of residents
- Autism programs in Ohio come under fire
- A soldier’s story: Financial rehab
- Visually impaired skiers enjoy flying down the mountain
- Latimer seeking new trial
- Marlee Matlin on ‘Dancing with the Stars’
- Editorial: Access or excess?
- Report: Ten million baby boomers face Alzheimer’s
- More Oregonians using assisted suicide law
- Near the Golden Gate, seeking broader access to parks
- British opposition leader to back late abortions for babies with minor disabilities
- Editorial: Abortion debate finds common cause
- States’ budget crises will hurt millions
- Arizona backs plan to insure kids with autism
- New York’s new governor …
- Columnist: Sex abuse case a legal horror show
- Couple refutes plastic surgery story
- Op-ed: Brave to give up baby? Never
- Ramping up her cause in San Francisco
- Students in the mainstream, but isolated
- Law opens opportunities for students with disabilities
- As the economy falters, so do state budgets
- The children of Donor X
- Austin the amazing
- Employer bias thwarts many blind workers
- Columnist: Putting mentally disabled workers at risk is no way to cut corners
- Couple assembles registry to aid autism research
- Columnist: How to wreck a boy’s life
- Students with disabilities fight to join school teams
- Writer: ‘The steep price of our forbidden kiss’
- British opposition leader shows son with cerebral palsy on TV
- Music critic describes life with Asperger’s
- Professor urges new ways of viewing disability images
- Columnist: UN human rights treaty needs to be backed by actions
- News analysis: Paterson draws attention to staggering unemployment among blind people
- Film review: Lesson in faith from boy with Down syndrome
- Building a business
- Deaf man serves on jury in Georgia criminal case
- Rebuilding Bryan Anderson, Iraq war veteran
- Advocates hail Paterson governorship
- Op-ed: The Vision Thing
- Paterson: Unemployment rates ‘horrible’ for people with disabilities
- ‘Blindsight’: Documentary follows blind teenagers up Himalayas
- Charges dropped in facilitated communication trial
- ‘The Old Homeplace’: A musical that beats the odds
- Author denounces lack of Alzheimer’s research funds
- Assisted suicide advocate Kevorkian plans run for Congress
- ‘What it means to be New York’s first legally blind governor’
- One year later, Ashley’s parents defend growth-stunting surgery
- Music: Melody Gardot’s talent shines in debut album
- Three NJ youths charged in sexual assault of girl with disabilities
- Wheelchair athlete lobbies Maryland for integrated athletics
- David Paterson: Disability bias stronger than racism
- People with disabilities face discrimination in the workplace
- NY high school defies order to admit service dog
- Columnist: ‘Creating a deaf child IS immoral and no parent should be allowed to choose this for their child’
- New York says deaf student may take service dog to school
- Columnist: ‘Choosing a deaf baby is criminal’
- Lt. Gov. David Paterson: First blind governor?
- Liberty Mutual ad a realistic portrayal of wheelchair user
- Actor Henry Winkler tells of life with dyslexia
- Court rules in favor of student misdiagnosed as mentally disabled
- Harris survey: Boomers underestimate disability risk
- Aides say they expect Spitzer to resign
- In response to your requests …
- Heated reaction to deaf couple’s plea for deaf child
- U-M agrees to expand disabled seating in stadium
- Fox’s Janice Dean says she has multiple sclerosis
- If Spitzer resigns …
- Politics of ‘Penelope’ hard to avoid
- First person: ‘My baby, right or wrong’
- Column: ‘Time to retire the R-word’
- Autism no longer an obstacle for students seeking college degree
- Screening for cystic fibrosis raises tough ethical issues
- ‘Brownback abortion bill’s focus: disabilities’
- Amid controversy, couple defends plastic surgery to help daughter fit in
- ‘This couple wants a deaf child. Should we try to stop them?’
- Late abortions in Britain up 44 percent in less than a decade
- ‘In sickness and in health’
- Two years after life-saving surgery: Baby Noor’s troubling future
- Voices: More Medicaid waivers needed
- Opening the door to independent living
- Columnist: The Tracy we never knew
- Study finds strong link between pre-term births, disabilities
- Parliamentary report: Vulnerable people denied rights
- Lawyers spar over role of Asperger’s in school slaying
- CDC scrambles to reassure on vaccine safety
- House passes genetic discrimination bill …
- College within reach of some students with disabilities
- Gathering a big deal for little people
- Eugenics payments an issue in NC governor’s race
- Georgia girl helps link autism to childhood vaccines
- House approves mental health parity bill
- British strategy offers more control for people with disabilities
- School aide stole lunch money from student with autism
- Risks of giving financial freedom to adults with autism
- Housing market tough for people with disabilities
- Disability in the arts: ‘The last taboo?’
- BBC reality show searching for models with disabilities
- Voices: ‘Candidates should reach out to people with disabilities’
- ‘He’s brought so much’
- Reaction to McCain comments on autism, vaccines
- Writer: ‘I am thankful for my son’s face’
- Columnist: Parents should resist urge to test kids’ genes
- Where are people with disabilities in Hollywood?
- McCain enters autism vaccine wars
- Airbrushing away diversity
- Three nations, three videos, one message
- ‘Should we use plastic surgery to make her beautiful like us?’
- Michigan debates insurance coverage for autism therapies
- A 4-year-old ambassador against fear
- Blue magic: Getting to know Josh Blue
- Down syndrome is target of ambitious NIH research initiative
- Disability history collection a reminder of shared trauma
- Kennedy-Brownback bill passes Senate committee
- Everybody loves Richard
- UK gang sentenced to life for murder of disabled man
- Business strategy: Tap into motivated pool of disabled workers
- Company helps those with limb loss compete in extreme sports
- Critiques of UNC prof’s views on Down syndrome
- Critics, supporters debate Latimer ‘mercy killing’ ruling
- Sedi Penna: High school cheerleader has Down syndrome
- With an iron will, he finds a way
- Few Latinos with mental disorders get treatment
- Officials: Film portrays West Virginians as inbreeds, carnival sideshows
- In ‘Penelope’, Christina Ricci explores facial deformity
- ‘Baby Miracle’ brought to Florida for surgery
- How Marlee feels the music
- Report from Scotland: Most autistic adults ‘isolated’
- Robert Latimer paroled
- The upside of Down syndrome
- Teens charged with torturing disabled woman
- Transplant surgeon charged in death of man with disabilities
- ‘The last great struggle’
- Teen’s new book gives insight into ADHD
- California homeless program aids people with disabilities
- Leave Britney alone, writer pleads
- Day care dilemma: Few facilities can handle kids with disabilities
- Books: ‘The Power of Two’
- ‘They are people first’
- Health blogs provide a haven for people with chronic conditions
- Cochlear implant supports author’s active life
- Scientists reconsider what they think they know about autism
- Sequenom pledges early test for Down syndrome; shares up
- Lowe’s won’t put ads on ‘Big Brother’
- Books: Vancouver couple explain love in the world of autism
- Daring to think differently about schizophrenia
- Dad responds to UNC prof’s remark about Down syndrome
- Public editor: UNC prof ‘a deer in media headlights’
- Museum exhibit explores Nazi eugenics, American parallels
- Basketball heroics for high school senior
- Brad Hennefer featured in national publications
- Op-ed: Mom counters UNC prof’s remarks about Down syndrome
- ‘Blindness doesn’t deter Spriggs’s mat vision’
- New York family says: Don’t use the ‘r-word,’ please
- Candidate eager to disprove doubters
- I’m ill, but who really needs to know?
- Disney Segway suit dismissed
- Selective termination disputed in Italy
- Author: Leading figures achieved success through autism
- Teen star brings his disability to TV role
- Thousands of disability activists turn out in Georgia
- ABC autism story sees major viewer reaction
- U.S.: Bombers didn’t have Down syndrome
- More on the UNC Down syndrome controversy
- Scholar: Poynter column trivializes oppression of people with disabilities
- Bipolar diagnoses on the rise among children
- Marlee Matlin to compete on ‘Dancing with the Stars’
- Millions of dollars later, medicine still hasn’t mastered muscular dystrophy
- ‘Despite having Down syndrome, Hennefer plays on’
- Editorial: Professors have a right to express opinions
- Newspaper witnesses blind man’s humiliation at fast food joints
- Exchange of vows for couple with Down syndrome
- National autism group demands CBS apology for ‘retard’ remark
- Journalist: Hero and victim not the only choices for people with disabilities
- Vegas teen is the wheel deal
- Wrestler takes a shot at the impossible
- Blue Jays prospect says arm will do the talking
- Paralympic swimmer gets ‘courage’ award in Detroit
- Making the most of life
- Books: ‘An Uncertain Inheritance’
- Actors with disabilities seek to break barriers
- Writer: Congress must restore rights of people with disabilities
- Book review: ‘Autistics’ Guide to Dating’
- Court revives fast-food lawsuit by woman with visual impairment
- Group uses music to bridge gaps between people
- Prof’s remark about abortion, disability angers students
- Disabled actor: ‘Go ahead — take a good look’
- Editorial: Don’t eliminate the word ‘retarded’ from state laws
- Maryland amputees push for insurance coverage of prosthetics
- Florida sheriff apologizes in wheelchair dumping case
- Oscar Pistorius appeals Olympic Games ban
- Jury awards $38.5 million in birth of boy with cerebral palsy
- Special ed law must ‘give way’ to NCLB, court says
- Gary Bauer links Baghdad bombings to abortion debate at home
- Allegations of abuse, neglect skyrocket at Texas institutions
- Firms vy for first-trimester blood test for Down syndrome
- ‘Life with Anthony,’ a boy with Down syndrome
- Florida wheelchair dumping case goes national
- Deputy suspended after dumping man from wheelchair
- Hospital chief arrested for supplying disabled women to Al Qaeda
- Columnist: Bombing a reminder of the Down syndrome debate
- Experts: Parents gaming system to gain test advantage for kids
- Elderly, disabled fall victim to high-interest lenders
- Wii video game used in rehab therapy
- Childhood cancer survivors conceal disabilities to get work
- Walgreens puts high priority on hiring people with disabilities
- UK Muslims outraged over talk of disabilities, wedded cousins
- 8,000 people with disabilities on NJ waiting list
- Asian students left behind on special education
- ‘Abortion is never an easy option: Why I aborted my first child’
- Amputee athlete, Lincoln spokeswoman, Nike model
- Hennefer: A player who can light up a court
- Op-ed: Britney’s troubles teach value of involuntary hospital stay
- Op-ed: Eliminating r-word won’t stop abuse
- Virginian, 81, pushed through apology for eugenic sterilization
- National parks sued over disability access
- Column: Don’t let Bush cut protections for people with disabilities
- Ad watch: ‘Politics as unusual’ in Oregon
- British film group vetoes ‘Last American Freak Show’
- Virginia mental health ‘survivors’ oppose changes in involuntary commitment
- Special ed student taped to chair
- Commentators slam ADA restoration bill
- Jewish newspaper’s special issue on disabilities
- On the radar screen: Books, movie about people with disabilities
- Ad campaign celebrates ‘non-uniform’ people
- Shared outrage over the Baghdad bombings
- Online petition accuses OB/Gyns of bias
- ‘I have always felt different’: Children tell about life with ADHD
- As primary votes are tallied, more info on candidates and disabilities
- Restaurants, OCD a volatile mix
- UK study: People with autism lack support
- McCain cites Baghdad bombing in Super Tuesday remarks
- Life on the bright side
- How one caregiver handles insensitive questions
- As voters go to polls, disability access at issue
- Disability in the media: The legacy of early reality TV
- Britney’s troubles show gaps in health care
- Nation’s schools stand to lose billions under Medicaid changes
- Researchers: Down syndrome may help solve breast cancer
- Questions still emerging about bombing, media reports
- Accommodations sought for aging, disabled voters
- NY teachers see bias against special ed in school rankings
- Study: Workers with disabilities are as productive as colleagues
- Books: Former Hollywood lawyer explores life with bipolar
- Sister convicted in starvation death of woman with autism
- Profile of ‘Cherry Hill’s rising star’
- Opinion: Abandoned man with disabilities symbolizes state’s failures
- Wyoming bills seek ‘people-first’ language
- Disability access company wins top honors in Virginia
- Civil liberties group: Free Robert Latimer
- Praise for the documentary ‘Praying with Lior’
- Study: Social networks exclude users with disabilities
- Mac gaming site launched for users with disabilities
- Feds: Scammer steals identity of man with Down syndrome
- U.S. official: Bombers apparently ‘not willing martyrs’
- Condemnation of use of people with Down syndrome as bombers
- U.S. spokesman: No evidence bombers had disabilities
- Iraqi spokesman: Women with Down syndrome were tricked into being ‘suicide bombers’
- Sacramento officials strip name of eugenicist from public park
- ‘Amazing man’ awaiting his turn on Good Morning America
- Down syndrome advocates increase efforts to educate medical community, pregnant women
- Manitoba doctors claim right to pull life-support
- UK care rationing denies help to elderly, disabled
- Economists’ point-counterpoint: Suspend the ADA
- ABC autism debate: Round two
- Congressional leaders seek probe of Army, VA in disability dispute
- Facilitated communication at issue in sexual abuse trial
- States tackle autism, insurance questions
- Columnist: ‘We must protect disabled people against this wave of barbaric and hateful crimes’
- I swear I did not plant this story
- Ruling: Marriott discriminated against golfers with disabilities
- Video: Varsity player with DS scores 3-pointer
- ABC autism show must go on — along with controversy
- Hidden trauma: Studies cite head injuries as factor in social ills
- Op-ed: Abuse a growing problem for vulnerable elderly
- Columnist: Poor quality information on DS leaves women without choices
- Study: Drugs may not be needed for kids with ADHD
- ‘American Idol’ contestant puts spotlight on rare syndrome
- Affluent children more likely to be classified with autism
- Celebrities with hearing impairment — Who knew?
- Nokia cell phone will read documents to people with visual impairments
- Federal report: No Child Left Behind helps students with disabilities
- Questions for Gary O’Donoghue, BBC political correspondent
- Columnist: When disability becomes illegal
- Still thinking about the Super Bowl Pepsi advertisement …
- Parade magazine asks: Is there hope for autism?
- Presidential candidates on disability issues
- Is it welcome to Holland — or someplace else?
- Lincoln ad features amputee triathlete
- Casey Deegan, skydiver
- ABC drama renews conflict over autism, vaccines
- International surgeons contest Dutch euthanasia of babies with spina bifida
- Diabetes costs U.S. as much as wars, disasters
- Pepsi Super Bowl ad features deaf culture, moment of silence
- DS advocates: Potential parents need accurate, balanced info
- What’s in a name? The importance of defining disability
- Tennis’ top champ rides a wheelchair
- Books: Stephen King’s ‘Duma Key’
- British peers reject limits on abortions of fetuses with disabilities
- UK murder spurs call for laws to protect disabled from hate crime
- Why do we stare? Man without legs attempts to find out
- People behind the effort to ban ‘the R-word’ from Virginia statutes
- Amputee makes wheelchair fitness DVD
- Hospital sued for dumping paraplegic man in Los Angeles gutter
- Billionaire businessman James Sorenson had learning disability
- Help for autism lacking in Washington state
- Rosewood closing announcement prompts controversy
- NFL Hall of Famer: I have multiple personality disorder
- Presidential candidates answer questions on mental health care
- Skiers with visual impairments enjoy the slopes
- View footage from ‘Rolling’
- Writer: Inclusion of people with disabilities is a civil rights issue
- Music review: Schubert, Goethe and Thomas Quasthoff
- Parents inspired by son with Down syndrome
- Help wanted: Dentists for Medicaid kids
- NY budget calls for closing institution
- Pregnant women with fetal abnormalities called ‘forgotten’ in abortion debate
- Hockey — with a difference
- A joyful noise: Chorus for people with disabilities
- Politician credits career to daughter with Down syndrome
- Columnist questions wisdom of closing Maryland institution
- Books: In an autistic body, the soul of a poet
- Spanish sculptor Muñoz depicted dwarfs with dignity, humanity
- Columnist: The greatest gift for people with disabilities is not help
- Real work for real people
- ‘Intellectually disabled,’ not ‘mentally retarded’
- Mother convicted in murder of girl with autism
- UK hospital rules out hysterectomy on teen with CP
- Why has federal disability hiring declined?
- Down syndrome group calls for true informed consent in prenatal testing
- Just when you thought you’d seen everything …
- Basketball player wishes he hadn’t taken ADD meds
- EEOC: Federal workplace increasingly closed to people with disabilities
- CBS News investigation: Social Security backlog up sharply
- ADD drug use soars in major league baseball
- Dr. Judah Folkman: Cancer pioneer, noted low cancer incidence in people with Down syndrome
- Teen with Down syndrome ejected from theater
- DSALA’s Gail Williamson: Advocating for performers with disabilities
- MD to close Rosewood institution
- Journalist: We’re all complicit in Britney’s tragedy
- GA parents sue state; neglect of autistic son alleged
- Oregon Senate candidate promotes his disabilities in campaign ad
- PBS documentary ‘Lobotomist’ serves as a warning
- Alaska ponders closing intensive-needs funding gap
- Cherishing and supporting siblings of kids with special needs
- Texas parents institutionalize children in order to get services
- Gallaudet student Russell Harvard featured in film epic “There Will Be Blood”
- NY City Council: Fix transit system for city’s disabled
- Pistorius ruled ineligible for Olympics
- MD governor ponders fate of troubled institution
- Judge clears way for class action suit against VA
- How am I supposed to get up there?
- Pistorius vows to challenge possible ban
- Best cruises for travelers with limited mobility
- Reality TV star not guilty of drunk driving
- Demand exceeds supply for schools serving students with autism
- High school senior is truly exceptional
- Athlete amazes teammates and fans
- Columnist: Will Britney prompt reform of CA mental health policies?
- In China, a mother battles ignorance to create autism school
- Autism linked to DNA mutation
- 11,000 with disabilities languish on Tennessee waiting lists
- Do doctors assume the worst about people with disabilities?
- Q&A with Richard M. Cohen …
- Spina bifida reported down in North Carolina — but why?
- MN court upholds special ed services for private school students
- Pros and cons of giving adult drugs to children
- Poverty ‘hits millions’ with disabilities in the UK
- RI school district rapped for poor showing by students with disabilities
- Prosecutor: Daughter’s autism prompted killing
- ‘Today’s Man’: Documentary focuses on Asperger’s
- Autism rate still rising, despite vaccine change
- Councilwoman: Romney nephew has Down syndrome
- Missouri governor seeks more than double in autism funding
- New Orleans charter schools struggle with special education
- Diagnosed with Parkinson’s, horn player makes classical CD to raise charity funds
- Friends suspect Britney has mental illness
- Books: ‘Strong at the Broken Places’
- Letters: Where are candidates on Alzheimer’s?
- Caring for aging parents from a distance: A growing business
- Students with disabilities have rights to advanced classes: Office of Civil Rights
- California debates high school exit requirements for those with disabilities
- Study finds drugs offer no benefits to curb aggression
- Wheelchair traveler enjoys Venice
- Florida county puts ID bracelets on people with special needs
- Autism study to treat infants without symptoms
- Life takes flight: Rose Parade float has special meaning for lung donor family, recipient with CF
- A sister’s view of her brother’s life with cystic fibrosis
- Disability 101: Pity is never appropriate
- Low cancer rates for those with Down syndrome; Study could lead to new anti-cancer drugs
- Medicaid creates marriage penalty for people with disabilities
- New year, new hope: Autism speaking through art
- Books: ‘The church of 80% sincerity’
- Disability blocks couple from marrying
- ‘Bucket List’: Two cancers, only one is (mostly) accurate
- Fan is hired, not merely to inspire
- FDA flip-flop mobilizes prostate cancer patients to activism
- You couldn’t make this stuff up …
- Waiting too late to test?
- How a school in Florida got mainstreaming right
- Nike shines spotlight on wheelchair basketball
- Columnist: Oscar Pistorius should be out of the running
- Family rejects Blue Cross’ claim
- Dad was a superman to the end
- Editorial: A shocking error in treatment
- Schizophrenia takes a daughter away
- Columnists: People with disabilities must overcome the idea of ‘normal’
- D.C. special ed chief reported ousted
- 4.4 million too many to be ignored
- U.S. cancer researchers go abroad for trials
- Snowy sidewalks irk disabled
- Proposal to tag, track Alzheimer’s patients
- Columnist: Disabled mother fights for right to raise her child
- New Zealand refuses entry visa for deformed Samoan baby whose parents sought medical aid
- The DNA age: Searching for similar diagnosis through DNA
- Initiative seeks insurance coverage for autism treatment
- Making waves: Swimmer pushes physical limits
- Autism times three
- Parents in court battle over ending daughter’s life support
- Colleges take hard line on psychological problems
- College plans master’s degree in autism
- Another look at Alzheimer’s
- Scientists can’t get their minds around Alzheimer’s
- Blind teen adds kick to swim team
- British alarmed over exclusion of pupils with special needs
- Judge: Boston must pay fines for inaccessible sidewalk
- Disabled Hawaii grad assistant to travel with team for first time
- School studied for environmental causes of autism
- Finding Alzheimer’s before a mind fails
- Gibbs draws inspiration from grandson’s fight
- Cystic fibrosis: They told her she would never get this far
- Technology restores speech, movement
- Bellingham boy works hard toward dream: Walking
- A surprise that changed a family forever
- The adult face of fetal alcohol syndrome
- Neither mom nor son can let go
- Georgia school a laboratory for getting along
- ‘Twins cope with illness’
- In search of redemption
- Trapped in his body, his spirit soars
- Parents defend school’s use of shock therapy
- Letters to WSJ: Consider the subtleties of mainstreaming
- Battle over Michigan Stadium has national implications
- GI saves Iraqi boy in long-shot adoption
- Op-ed: Washington’s phobia of global treaties
- A true rite of passage
- Deaf demand right to designer deaf children
- Judge warns New York to comply with voting law
- Juror: Latimer deserves parole
- Alabama prisons struggle to deal with mentally ill prisoners
- Virginia panel seeks to ease rules to commit the mentally ill
- Epilepsy in the family
- Parents see daughter’s Asperger’s as extraordinary gift
- Family uses genetic engineering to save daughter’s life
- Small is beautiful
- Texas Democrats criticize GOP leadership for foot-dragging on abuse at state institutions
- Tough calls in transplant case
- How community theater can enrich the life of a person with special needs
- In New Jersey and elsewhere, helping police understand autism
- Is there justice for people with fetal alcohol brain damage?
- Study: Payments to vets with mental illness vary widely by state
- Nursing homes struggle to kick drug habit
- Genetic engineering corrects Fragile X in mice
- NYU cancels ransom note ad campaign
- The view from the other side: Patients, doctors and the power of a camera
- Economics book diagnoses healthcare spending problems
- Robert Latimer: Was justice done?
- Waiting for God in a Haitian orphanage
- Nearly 100,000 disabled Texans on waiting list for in-home care
- Vouchers for disabled students popular but limited
- The boy in the moon, part 3: Walker, my teacher
- A spectrum of disorders
- New ACOG guidelines: Invasive prenatal testing should be offered to all pregnant women
- Lab rat?
- Blind students navigate Harvard bureaucracy
- History professor flourishes through activism
- Judge rules for school district in special ed trial
- School district sues to keep student in special ed
- NYU ‘ransom notes’ ad campaign draws ire of disability advocates
- Schools accused of pushing mainstreaming to cut costs
- Boomers slow to accept hearing aids
- Giving names to souls forgotten no longer
- Housing for developmentally disabled stirs controversy
- Books: ‘Babies by Design’
- Families flock to Long Island autism program
- Best-selling author announces he has Alzheimer’s
- Millions search for jobs; A struggle to find work
- Book: ‘Autism Heroes’
- Point-counterpoint on Robert Latimer
- In special education cases, NYC fighting harder before paying for private schools
- Down’s art exhibition tour
- Feds: Disabilities declining among elderly
- Mandatory flu shots grow near in New Jersey
- Disability arts: ‘The last remaining avant-garde movement’
- Life after cancer
- Robert Latimer: The debate continues
- Columnist: Seeing yourself in autism
- Campuses widen the mainstream
- A school where autistic kids aren’t alone
- Movies: ‘The Child King’
- Confidence, independence are journey’s destination
- Disabled adults finding a new place
- The story of Jamie
- University of Alabama program helps students with autism
- Treating the ‘invisible wounded’
- U-M students question U’s role in aiding students with disabilities
- Family refuses to let challenges end bar mitzvah hopes for son, others
- Social security disability cases last longer as backlog rises
- Brain-scanning pundit rebuked
- A hidden shame: The deadly dilemma of Georgia’s mental health care system
- Tax aid program for disabled goes national
- Spending: When a luxury vacation cultivates philanthropy
- Your child’s disorder may be yours, too
- The boy in the moon, part 2: Finding Walker’s place
- Is there really an autism epidemic?
- Schools ponder role as child nears death
- No silent nights for this choir group
- Author: Too many treated for mental disorders they don’t have
- Movies: ‘Billy the kid’
- Movies: Bestseller ‘Memory Keeper’s Daughter’ filmed
- Traveleyes founder wins entrepreneurship award
- A donor egg gives life — and a death sentence
- Minorities overrepresented in special ed, civil rights panel told
- Forgotten suitcases, emotional baggage
- Tracing business acumen to dyslexia
- ‘Good intentions meet shades of grey in mainstreaming the disabled’
- Latimer: ‘I still don’t feel guilty’
- Books: ‘The Gift’
- Parole sought in Canadian ‘mercy killing’ case
- Neuropsychiatrist: Let’s get inside the candidates’ heads — really inside
- Donated Segways may help disabled vets get back on feet
- Obit: Sally Smith, 78; Lab School founder
- Prescription abuse seen in U.S. nursing homes
- Book review: Travel becoming more accessible
- UNC scientist responds to Wall Street Journal article on inclusion
- UN chief calls for end to job discrimination against people with disabilities
- Editorial: Special ed students deserve qualified teachers
- Obit: Edmund Inselmann, 81; ‘Overcame handicaps’
- Doctors not good at breaking disability news to parents: Survey
- Asperger’s syndrome gets a very public face
- Report: Canadian disability rates on the rise
- Brownback, Kennedy collaborating on Down syndrome bill
- Oklahoma parents claim teachers abused students
- UN urges jobs for people with disabilities
- Kennedy Center Honors go to five artists (two with history of disability)
- Study: Fevers may reduce symptoms in children with autism
- Italian shoots ‘suffering’ wife in her hospital bed
- Vets’ mental health still stigmatized
- UCLA opens campus to students with disabilities
- Death in the family
- ‘My sweet, sweet lost and broken boy’
- High rate of Tennessee students in special ed raises concerns
- Wheelchair athlete to star on Cheerios box
- Ban proposed on disability abortions in the UK
- More young adults with autism need jobs, support programs
- Should parents of children with autism get preferential parking?
- Column: ‘Memo to those who thought the autism-vaccine debate was over:
- Teen with autism hits a high note
- Program serves college-age students with disabilities in Denver
- Book reviews: ‘An Uncertain Inheritance’
- TV movie review: ‘Hollis Woods’
- Movie reviews: ‘Diving Bell and the Butterfly’ gets raves
- Sissy Spacek in Alzheimer’s role
- SSI payments to increase 2.3 percent next year
- In ADA settlement, Swarthmore agrees to change
- UK study: Mental health patients ‘suffering routine abuse from neighbors’
- Heather advocates for herself on ‘Good Morning America’
- Berkely campus for disabled gets big kick-start
- ‘America’s Next Top Model’ says goodbye to Heather
- She teaches those who can’t stand to cook — literally
- College honors student thrives with Tourette’s
- Aging patients with Down syndrome face alzheimer’s
- Disabled students see obstacles in Berkeley sororities, frats
- More Emails: Prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome
- Comments: Prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome
- Emails, take one: Prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome
- Smithsonian: David Lenz to create portrait of Eunice Shriver
- Report finds ‘appalling’ neglect of UK Alzheimer’s patients
- Learning disabilities and entrepreneurs
- Newark woman with CP included in Springsteen music video …
- Baltimore Ravens’ Samari Rolle adapts to life with epilepsy
- Entrepreneurs exploiting man with mental illness?
- ‘Dwarf brothers get comfortable in middle-school social scene’
- Sex on wheels
- Parents of disabled students push for separate classes
- Book: ‘Shut up about your perfect kid’
- Bush nominates new head for special ed office
- ‘We’re all different and that’s okay’
- Eva Longoria says sister taught her how to deal with Hollywood
- Life with Anthony
- ‘Beauty pageant highlights plight of landmine survivors’
- Online communication enhances relationships for those with disabilities
- New York won’t meet accessibility requirements for primary
- Disability advocates sue to keep kids out of institutional school
- Movie review: ‘Praying with Lior’
- UK hyperactivity prescriptions triple in seven years
- Clinton’s $700 million autism plan
- ‘Gene tests alarm Down syndrome families’
- Eunice Shriver hospitalized in fair condition
- Researcher: Many doctors ‘misinformed’ about people with DS
- Adoption is a loving option for children with Down syndrome
- Charity launches sibling support site
- We wish to welcome you to Walk of Fame
- Ravens player missed games due to epilepsy
- Guidance on buying toys for kids with disabilities
- Unemployment and poverty remain dramatically high among workers with disabilities
- Prosecutor: Daughter’s autism prompted killing
- CNN autism videos …
- Books: ‘I am proud: The athletes of the Special Olympics’
- Transcript of CNN report on autism …
- ‘Autism sometimes looks like a crime — but it’s not’
- On Anderson Cooper 360, people with autism advocate for selves
- ‘Including Samuel’: An intimate view of full inclusion
- June’s journey: The face of Alzheimer’s
- U-M offers to double accessible seats in stadium
- Parents threatened with jail time over kids’ vaccinations
- Black males at high risk of special ed placement in Houston school
- Writers’ picket lines swell as people with disabilities join forces
- Threats to your genetic privacy
- Genetic nondiscrimination bill stalled in Senate
- My genome, myself: Seeking clues in DNA
- ‘Dwarfs find respect in bullfighting’
- Smartest students get left out; Funding dried up after ed reform
- Blacks, Hispanics live longer with Alzheimer’s
- Columnist: Candidates need a disabilities debate
- Movie review: ‘Autism, the musical’
- Love in the time of dementia
- Hate crime law plan ‘a mockery of the law and the disabled’
- Columnist: Diversity ideal excludes disabled
- Serbia rejects reports of abuse in mental institutions
- Mom’s Down syndrome decision
- The toll of an intemperate email
- Artists with Down syndrome gain international acclaim
- PB column: If the test says Down syndrome
- Learning to manage with a disability
- Doctor to stand trial in chelation death of boy with autism
- Kansas coalition seeks end to waiting list for services
- Editorial: Keep feds out of Michigan stadium
- Autism: What are the ethics of treating disability?
- Entertainer Leeza Gibbons named to key Alzheimer’s post
- ‘My Down’s daughter changed my life’*
- Risk of disability rises in states with income inequality
- Book: ‘Spelling love with an X’
- More returning soldiers cite mental health issues
- Editorial: O’Connor made “A brave decision”
- What about my disease?
- Organizations honored for promoting inclusion
- Cancer survivors find support
- More on O’Connors, Alzheimer’s
- Supreme Court justice knows it’s best to let Alzheimer’s patients forget the past
- Report describes abuses in Serbian state mental institutions
- California bars, restaurants face lawsuits
- Disabled bullying ‘overlooked’
- Lesson plan for success
- Disabled man not lovin’ it after guide dog snubbed at McDonald’s
- Microsoft developing document translator for people with visual impairments
- Tour features home tailored for family, special-needs daughter
- WP critic Tim Page apologizes for email remarks
- ‘Including Samuel’ premieres in D.C.
- Point-counterpoint on Disney’s Segway suit
- Study: Brains in kids with ADHD mature later
- High court: No liability for doctor who revived newborn
- Silent eugenics: Abortion & Down syndrome
- Special education: Pass or fail?
- High school play celebrates talents of all students
- Real work, real world
- John Edward to outline plan for veterans with PTSD
- Following a stroke, a Japanese pianist reinvents himself
- NYT obit for Carrie Rozelle …
- Abuse reports spark call for reforms in Oregon’s care system
- Little people can still dream big
- Look over Jordan, what do you see?
- Blind teacher in Florida has ‘seen’ students succeed for 36 years
- Abuse of people with disabilities reported in Oregon
- Report: Seattle schools need to overhaul special ed
- Disabled pianists to perform in New York
- Discovering a world of hope
- Books: ‘Choice,’ edited by Karen E. Bender and Nina de Gramont
- Should insurance cover autism treatments?
- Cornell: Massive employment gap persists for people with disabilities
- Study sees meager progress in school inclusion efforts
- Children get more drugs for diabetes, heart disease
- UK hate crime law planned to include disabilities
- Court hears new disability dispute over Agent Orange, veterans
- New Jersey voters reject ‘idiot’ language
- Penn study: Obesity leads to disability, kidney ills
- NJ voters deciding fate of ‘idiot’ language in constitution
- More on ‘Music Within,’ movie about making of ADA
- NAMI condemns violent videogame for portrayal of mental illness
- Sightings: Mental health in the news
- The upside of Down: An extra chromosome, an equal child
- U-M rebuts charges in wheelchair dispute
- Colleges meet special needs
- Autistic woman was starved to death, prosecutor asserts
- School district disciplined over use of restraint
- Study links violent TV, attention problems
- The plucky smart kid with the fatal disease: A life with cystic fibrosis
- Separate is not equal
- Boston suburb sued; Group says it targets people with disabilities
- Author shares secrets of happiness
- Creating independence for adults with disabilities
- Penn to launch center for genetic ethics
- Sports access sought for students with disabilities
- New York plans more school options for students with autism
- Columnist: Living and loving ADHD
- Drama: Anthropologist evolves with help from autistic child
- ‘Autism: The musical’
- Minnesota: Mental health services for returning vets in short supply
- Self-advocate: Autistics can thrive by knowing themselves
- Experts: Autism ‘epidemic’ largely fueled by special ed funding, shift in diagnosing
- Alpha consumer: Dealing with a disabled son’s debt
- Carrie Rozelle, 70; founder of National Center for Learning Disabilities
- Dodd’s inspiration at disability forum: His sister
- Are we too quick to medicate children?
- Many schools fail only in special ed
- CVS signs disability employment pact
- How to accommodate and welcome employees with disabilities
- Attitudes called barrier to employment for people with autism
- University of Iowa program targets learning disabilities
- College, career fair planned for those with ‘learning differences’
- CDC urges caution on lead poisoning
- Long Island schools challenged by autism’s growth
- The untold stories: First person accounts from women who had late terminations
- Katrina survivors increasing depressed, traumatized, suicidal
- Georgia’s mental hospitals short on money, staff
- She used to resist using the ‘D-word,’ but no more
- Mexican school for art by people with Down syndrome gains international acclaim
- Feds: Disabled U-M fans had to be carried to seats
- ‘Universal design’ concept promoted for education
- Special ed crisis looming in D.C.
- U-M denies violating ADA in stadium accessibility
- Website courts consumers with disabilities
- Dominated by ambulist metaphors
- Autism stereotypes are ‘damaging’
- Addressing the fallout of newborn screening
- More employers face caregiver-related suits
- Pediatricians urge autism screening
- The warrior
- Editorial: Narrow the hate crimes act
- Feds threaten U-M funding over lack of access at stadium
- College program provides structure for students with disabilities
- British MPs want clearer rules on abortion of the disabled
- Column: Testing standards for students with disabilities a ‘sham’
- Executive secrets: Good thinking about mental illness
- Book challenges public’s conception of chronic illness
- Recovering from injury, returning to TV, speaking for the wounded
- Youth with autism is a natural at the piano
- Mom: Don’t be so quick to disregard child with DS
- Independent and getting on with life
- Ignoring the most important right of all
- Gaffney’s message touts hope, tolerance
- Columnist: Actress has her facts wrong on vaccines and autism
- Disabilities fight grows as taxes pay for tuition
- Selective parenting
- Equal voting access for disabled long overdue
- Boston area music groups draw people with special needs
- Critics pan ‘Music Within’
- Can a lack of sleep cause psychiatric disorders?
- How evacuees can deal with special medical needs
- One tall voice: Six years in special ed
- Man gets second chance at work after losing sight
- Margaret Trudeau campaigns to dispel stigma of mental illness
- Kitty Dukakis working to end stigma of shock therapy
- Data on genes involved in autism released to researchers
- James Watson retires after racial remarks
- The eugenics temptation
- A prized poet: Winner of prestigious award links art form to influences of daily life
- Children with chronic illness: Making the transition to adulthood
- Treating diabetes and understanding cultures
- A special exit strategy
- Student column advocates death for “intellectually handicapped;” Atlanta paper defends press freedom
- Activists fight to rewrite disabilities act
- School districts brace for loss of special ed funds
- Life with diabetes: Outliving the prognosis
- Ohio law expands mental health care
- Special ed is drawn into exam debate
- Poll: People think ADHD is a term used to excuse bad behavior
- New Jersey says too many black students labeled as ‘special ed’
- Toy shopping for differently abled children
- Your child with special needs: Sharing your private issue with others
- Maryland agency helps disabled return to work force
- Know signs of depression in young children
- Tips on how to get city to pay for school for special-ed kids
- Hometown schooling cuts special ed costs
- Depression, anxiety tied to allergies in kids
- Chronic illness often a taboo subject: Survey
- Babies aborted for minor disabilities
- Most PTSD treatments not proven effective
- Woman wants horse as service animal
- In war’s aftermath, a game becomes a lifeline
- Vancouver artist explores sexuality of the disabled
- Personal stories
- Cisco CEO doesn’t hide problems with dyslexia
- VA doubles disability pension for Iraq veteran featured in WP
- Parents avoid vaccinations by claiming false religious exemptions
- City to pay $175,000 in wheelchair death
- School places Latino boy with disability in ESL class; parents sue
- Number of non-immunized children in Vt. schools doubles in a decade
- An angry breed: Handle with care
- Living with ADHD
- Aide sentenced to six months in death of boy with autism
- Should the Court of Appeal allow Katie Thorpe’s womb to be removed?
- Epileptic seizures hurt memory, ex-’Times’ reporter says
- Chicago-rooted stars use lofty platform to help their own afflicted children and others
- Lost hiker with autism dominates morning news
- Speech pathologist shortage stumps schools
- Big grant provides free access to scanned books
- Teen in wheelchair wins elk hunting trip
- Family almanac: Help son’s classmates fathom cerebral palsy
- Bill Nighy in ‘Coping Strategies’
- Tracking the coverage of Down Syndrome Awareness Month, ‘Buddy walks’
- Predicting the likelihood of disease
- The internet was made for deafblind people
- In English, it’s called “Three little butterflies” …
- Sixth-grader explains her Tourette’s
- Extolling faith-infused politics
- Milking it
- Military bars soldiers with ‘personality disorders’
- Hunting autism’s Holy Grail
- No child failures increase in Illinois; 896 schools miss the mark
- Personal stories
- Texas parents, schools spar over special needs
- Schwarzenegger veto ups exit exam’s stakes for special education students
- A duty to the wounded
- Colin Farrell says son has rare genetic disorder
- England testing all newborns for CF
- An unkind cut: Why KatieThorpe should not have a hysterectomy
- Daughter’s disability serves as motivation for this family
- Little people: An unexpected journey
- People with disabilities face many barriers to job placement
- Former banking executive chose to hide cancer diagnosis
- Disabilities law under fire, groups claim
- Website offers to help parents identify autism-related behaviors
- Blurring lines among both students and subjects
- Books: Montana author reaches out to parents
- Editorial: Disparities documented in Iowa special ed
- We can improve our prosperity by improving our health
- What I’m finding today …
- Advocates push Disney World to allow Segways for people with disabilities
- A wife’s battle
- Columnist: Back off! I’m not dead yet
- A powerful mind
- Op-ed: Iraq veterans deserve more than post-combat negligence
- Sightings: Advocacy by and for people with Down syndrome
- Caregiver kills his mother, himself
- Huntington’s disease: ‘I know how I am going to die’
- ‘Nothing to hide’
- Navajo nation diabetes rate soars
- NJ investigating over-representation of minorities in special ed
- Reactions to Supreme Court special ed action
- Katie Thorpe: Week two begins
- Columnist: There’s a better way to handle special needs under ‘No Child’ law
- Photographer counters stigma against schizophrenia
- Sightings: Another round on the controversy surrounding Katie Thorpe and her mother
- Tough fight for the disabled
- Learning from Andy
- Doctor in ‘Pillow Angel’ case commits suicide
- Man whose charges were dropped has no place to go
- Does mother really know best?
- GAO report recounts horrors of youth ‘treatment’ centers
- Couple with Down syndrome prepare to wed
- Silent minds
- On the campaign trail …
- Study: People with disabilities less likely to be online
- Artwork by people with disabilities reaches wider audience
- New York loses special education appeal
- States, towns enforce handicapped parking
- Get a job, get a life
- Attitudes change as Special Olympics come to China
- Grieving father kills himself, disabled son, after death of wife
- Standardized testing and special education: two reports
- Sightings: Three more wheelchair crimes
- Down syndrome: How one family adapted their life for the better
- Sightings: Reactions to hysterectomy for teenage girl
- Fourteen years later, judge drops charges against retarded man
- Special needs complicate schooling
- Separate but equal? Lawsuit challenges school
- Real hope in a virtual world
- Editorial: Let Katie Thorpe’s mother decide
- Reader requests: Bring back earlier ‘Pillow Angel’ column
- Mother defends hysterectomy bid for daughter
- Love + marriage + wheelchair = Baby carriage(s)
- Smoking more prevalent in people with disabilities
- Editorial: Boost disability pay for veterans
- ‘Fresh start’ begins for a life with autism
- Disability care an issue in Australian elections
- Three wheelchair crimes
- UK mother seeks surgery to ‘keep my daughter a child’
- A school’s special embrace
- Autism food therapy claims disputed
- Independent Means
- Report validates parent complaints about San Diego’s special ed program
- Police probe racial incident at school for deaf students
- Disabled workers’ other job: Hiding their disability
- Employers honored for promoting access, inclusion
- NM Senator Domenici to retire over brain disorder
- From the Special Olympics, reports of college support, shifting attitudes
- ‘Look me in the eye: My life with Asperger’s’
- Children like Grace
- Disabled vets deserve more benefits, panel says
- Japan eyes robotic help for elderly
- Letter: “Why do they choose to ignore us?”
- Dorothy Hamill tells of life with depression
- Doctors’ groups offer ADHD guide for parents
- Autism emerging as issue in Australian elections
- Target to stand trial in class action suit over website access
- Knowledge is power
- Tourette’s on TV: Is it entertainment?
- Sightings: Rethinking jobs, busting mental health myths, and public fears about genetic privacy
- More buzz about the ACOG guidelines
- Tell them it’s not so bad
- Soldiers get booted for ‘pre-existing’ mental illness
- The joy of victory, the agony of … discrimination?
- Autism spotlighted in Ontario election campaign
- Different views of Alzheimer’s
- American Muslim community seeks Islamic view of autism, disabilities
- Mary Ann Jones, 63, advocated for disability rights and independence
- Voting access denied to many in New Jersey
- New rules would let Virginia drop special ed services without parents’ OK
- Millionaire takes special ed plea to high court
- Wish I’d thought of that
- What she wishes she had known about Down syndrome …
- Still more Gaffney coverage
- Keep Texas institutions open, families say
- Autism vaccine debate: A never-ending story
- It’s time to accentuate the positive, researchers say
- Columnist: Whether hate crime or bullying, it needs to stop
- Beware clinical trials, says inspector general
- Drivers with disabilities often forgotten, overlooked and ignored at gas stations
- On the road again
- Psychiatrist who counsels vets wins genius grant
- NJ high court orders insurer to pay for autism care
- More Gaffney coverage
- Gaffney swims Tahoe in six hours
- She calls herself ‘Silent Beauty’
- Editorial seeks cuts in special ed transit costs
- ‘Deadly Medicine’ documents Nazi eugenics, mass deaths of people with disabilities
- Columnist: Don’t close Boston-area institution
- Georgia school voucher plan stumbles
- Athletes en route to Special Olympics in Shanghai
- Eugenic drift
- Impending class-size changes spark worries
- Community honors retiring director of inclusive pre-school
- Laurel Burch, artist, designer, businesswoman
- NJ mom helps parents master ‘Unexpected Journey’
- How perfect should our children be?
- Swimmer with Down syndrome to cross Tahoe
- Report: Appliances inaccessible to many
- Creating opportunities for people with disabilities
- Editorial: Texas institutions for mentally disabled need help now
- Gary Taubes on the conundrum of prenatal diagnosis
- Youthful author wrote the book on Tourette’s
- Deaf children excel in mainstream classrooms
- For World Alzheimer’s Day: First global survey of needs
- IVF couple screened to avoid Alzheimer’s risk
- Fighting the good fight
- Ontario advocates: ‘Join protest if you give a DAMN’
- Hearing loss group complains to FCC about iPhone
- ‘Corruption and neglect’ in Missouri group homes
- Celebrity autism saga on People magazine cover
- On the social indignity of riding the bus in a wheelchair
- ‘Seizure-response dogs’ help people with epilepsy
- NJ school boards seek infusion of cash for special ed
- Accessible housing crisis predicted
- Pop culture quiz: Which celeb has Asperger’s?
- ‘Girls bask in their new destiny: Cheerleading’
- NPR author responds to your comments
- Q&A with author Elyn Saks
- Mother’s letter: OBs, GYNs have obligation to educate parents on lives of people with Down syndrome
- Faster Down syndrome test in the works: Stanford scientists
- Museum exhibit: ‘Kids like you, kids like me’
- Editorial: Leave MA institution open
- California commission calls autism a public health crisis
- Caregivers given central role in UK policy discussions
- ‘An incredibly bleak picture’
- State groups use NCLB reauthorization to raise special ed concerns
- Schools say too much test pressure is landing on special ed
- ‘For years, fate of autistic boy fell through cracks at NYC Ed Dept.’
- IBM developing virtual worlds for visually impaired
- Celebs ‘fight to save their autistic sons’ — on Oprah
- JAMA study raises questions about genetic screening
- Autism funding emerging as issue in Ontario elections
- Similarities seen in society’s views of people with autism, Down syndrome
- Emory researchers report progress on Fragile X
- Upcoming film: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- Study: Youth with disabilities report high expectations
- Women with disabilities have fewer breast exams
- ‘Where risk and choice and hope converge, a guiding voice’
- Five must-dos when a loved one is ill
- Access denied: Boston is hardly friendly to people in wheelchairs
- China gears up for Special Olympics
- Reality TV show educates contestants about diabetes
- A family’s journey, on film
- Advocates: Disabled NFL veterans not getting enough help from league
- Therapeutic preschool helps kids with emotional problems
- Is this a first? Check the NYT wedding announcements…
- Paris Hilton and the R-word
- Pondering depression and Owen Wilson
- On the road again
- Book review: Spikes in the brain and a search for answers
- Controversy over use of shock treatment for kids with disabilities
- Survey: NYC fails to respond to parents of kids with disabilities
- Column: ‘I believed that people with disabilities were pitiful …
- Medical care often inaccessible to patients with disabilities
- History buffs in uproar over Virginia statue
- To exercise or not to exercise?
- Architect seeking disability-friendly designs
- MA to appeal judge’s decision to keep institution open
- Man with disability at center of organ procurement controversy
- Their disabled sister dead, two nurses find system failed to care for her
- Problems endure at Texas institutions for disabled
- Op-ed: We’ve become a more tolerant nation
- A genetic test that very few need is being marketed to the masses
- New Jersey targets nation’s highest autism rate
- Robert Redford and the R-word
- Op-ed: Inclusion promotes innovation
- Biotech startup promises earlier, accurate prenatal tests …
- NIH funds studies of ’4th grade slump’
- Do quirky kids need diagnoses?
- Santa Ana schools to lose $3.2 million after overstating special ed enrollment
- When accessibility isn’t hospitality
- Federal judge: Milwaukee failed to provide special ed services
- Researcher rejects idea of autism ‘cure’
- MSNBC tells how to help loved ones with disabilities
- Columnist: Disability protests may be counterproductive
- Protesters with disabilities block Chicago buildings
- Not autistic or hyperactive; just seeing double at times
- Expect the best for your child’s dental “home”
- Inspector’s report: VA misrepresents wait times for care
- Editorial: Special ed rules must be changed
- Editorial: Texas must improve care for ‘mentally retarded’
- USC law professor tells of journey through mental illness
- A lake to challenge
- Face reading revived to give doctors a head start in detecting genetic disorders
- Disability advocacy groups divided on NCLB draft
- Families wage fight for brain-injured
- Art helps him say what’s inside
- The cultural war on diabetes
- Wide world of sports
- Inventors: Brain signals can guide wheelchair
- Theater reviews
- Op-ed: Progress for people with disabilities seen in China
- Grammy winner has a unique connection to her music …
- Private firm finds profits in special ed
- Columnist: `Culture of perfection’ destroying us
- Strategies for a successful IEP
- ‘Executive function’: Diagnosis or myth?
- Report: Kids with disabilities lack computer access
- ‘Ending Down syndrome pregnancies bears all the marks of a pogrom’
- Study: Teen cancer survivors face more mental health issues
- David Onley’s honeymoon — and the aftermath
- Key legislator calls for police presence after abuse allegations in Texas institutions
- Teen suicides up for the first time in years
- Study: Half of children with autism can be accurately diagnosed around first birthday
- Book traces history, cultural interpretations of autism
- As home health care industry booms, little oversight to counter fraud
- Kentucky plan will allow people with disabilities to stay in their communities
- Ontario’s new L-G speaks out on disability rights
- Homes for people with disabilities …
- Sheltered workshops closing in North Carolina
- Immigrants face cultural barriers to treatment for mental illness
- Hundreds of Arizona schools failing; special ed standards blamed
- U.S. military practices genetic discrimination in denying disability benefits
- Study: Mentally ill ‘suffering neglect’
- Study: Danger to children from food and drink additives
- Study: Many ADHD kids aren’t diagnosed
- On the road again
- Mom’s genes or dad’s? Map can tell
- Scientists seeking genetic links to OCD in dogs
- Bipolar disorder in youths may be over-diagnosed
- New services help unsnarl medical bills
- Jerry Lewis’ Telethon hits new record
- No longer one of ‘Jerry’s kids’
- Incoming lieutenant-governor plans to smooth path for all
- ‘Beating the odds to become a child actor’
- Jerry Lewis Telethon in 42nd year …
- Not all my sons, take five
- ‘New generations learn about shameful forced sterilizations’
- Surfing with autism
- Physician: Anxiety over vaccines jeopardizes childrens’ health
- Impaired facial recognition linked to social problems in autism
- TV: ‘Alive Day Memories’
- Virginia finds problems testing students with disabilities
- A mom, an advocate for a child with Down syndrome
- Exploring disability, one column at a time
- Book: ‘Theology and Down syndrome’
- Virginia Tech case leads to tough questions about special ed
- Stand tall: The conversation continues
- ‘Coming down the mountain’ a controversial, harsh look at Down syndrome
- Not all my sons, take four
- Link between lead paint, learning disabilities
- Maybe editors are cleaning out their summer files?
- Documentary: Road trip! (With wheelchair)
- Israeli parents fight to keep kids with autism in regular classes
- Special ed rosters inaccurate; Schools to lose funds
- ‘Costs of special education tax school budgets’
- Back-to-school woes: Special education testing
- ‘Benny’s special education creates special challenges’
- Books: ‘Collaborators in a quest for human perfection’
- Fraudulent claims that stem cells cure disabilities
- BBC TV film: ‘Coming down the mountain’
- U.S., Israeli NGOs cooperate to fight erroneous special ed placements
- Once more with feeling: The R-word
- Op-ed: Residents would be safer in community than at Texas state ‘schools’
- Disability rights activist dies
- ‘A special joy: Raising a baby with Down syndrome’
- Italian prosecutors investigate abortion of nondisabled twin
- Researcher Mobley offers hope for people with Down syndrome
- Athlete with cystic fibrosis finishes triathlon …
- Court: School district must reimburse parents for schooling at hospital
- High school special educators knew of shooter’s disorder, couldn’t tell Virginia Tech
- Dental clinic serves a group often neglected
- Girl with autism longs to fit in
- Couple adopts three children with Down syndrome
- Utah parents worry about adult children with disabilities
- Vets w/disabilities get lessons in business
- Newsday calls for accurate accounting of autism
- ‘I hate motivational cripples’
- Incurable brain damage? ‘What did they know?’
- Explore link between constitutional rights, genetic information
- Column: Daughter with epilepsy needs more than hugs
- ‘Rocket Science’: An insider’s look at stuttering
- Students with disabilities bringing down graduation rates?
- Another college program for students with disabilities
- New Eagle scout has Down syndrome
- ‘When a kid becomes the caregiver’
- Fraud in training of home health aides
- Genetic testing revolution = insurance revolution
- Stand tall
- Not all my sons, take three
- Editorial: ‘Disabled Americans still don’t have equality’
- ‘Deal aids kids on Medicaid’
- Suit claims Illinois forcing disabled into nursing homes
- Schools fail special ed standards
- Alternative autism treatments may be deadly
- ‘Putting an end to years of silence’
- Paralympics points up problems for people with disabilities in China
- Art review: War’s faces
- NIMH study backs non-drug treatment for children with ADHD
- Vermont trails become wheelchair accessible
- Disability abuse case called ‘tip of the iceberg’
- People with Down syndrome: ‘Just a bit different’
- Columnist: Restrict ADHD meds
- Theory: anorexia may be inherited and linked to autism
- ‘Disabled people get a raw deal in marriage market’
- ‘Life is far from ordinary for these kids’
- ‘Heroic teen fought for life to the end’
- ‘Some parents say special education is too easy on students’
- ‘From disturbed high schooler to college killer’
- ‘High school junior doesn’t let Down syndrome dampen his team spirit’
- Not all my sons, take two
- People with disabilities steered to ‘real’ jobs
- ‘Easy breathing autism’
- Not all my sons
- Student backlash brews against untimed tests
- Is an early-help program shortchanging kids with disabilities?
- British families with disabilities reported in crisis
- Probe finds widespread fraud in use of handicap permits
- Program aims to support siblings
- ‘I believe I am not my body’
- Disabilities featured in NY art exhibits
- NY law shifts proof burden to schools in special ed disputes
- College advice for students with Asperger’s, autism
- Parents win lawsuit after daughter left in time-out room
- Down syndrome test poses risk to healthy babies
- Parents fight for autism insurance coverage
- What next? Special ed celebrity news
- Asperger’s Q&A
- Patients, it’s time to unionize
- Disabilities board “condemns” Toledo mayor …
- Asperger’s syndrome, in his own words
- Dispatches from autism world
- Business groups prepare to fight ADA rules
- Happy birthday, baby Fraser
- Early drug development relies on charity
- Program helps students become independent
- Short takes from the regional press
- Helping find lost Alzheimer’s patients
- Special kids, urgent needs
- Extended report on autism
- Columnist: Parents should know that people with disabilities report good quality of life
- Scientists: Children with disabilities as happy as classmates
- ‘Don’t count Down babies out in the womb’
- Toledo mayor in parking dilemma
- Stuck and Suicidal in a Post-Katrina Trailer Park
- Tour touts ADA restoration
- Keynote speaker opposes segregation for people with disabilities
- Scientists pinpoint DNA variants linked to MS
- What can a rare disorder tell us about human behavior?
- California schools to assist students with diabetes
- Medicaid wheelchair ruling protested
- Wall of sound
- Prenatal diagnosis bill seen as anti-abortion measure
- More Medicaid woes
- Hospitals boost the power of patients and their families
- Beach Center on Disability receives research award
- Children with disabilities helped by space-age technology
- Court finds no constitutional right to experimental drugs
- “Blindness can’t stop woman from gaining doctorate”
- Have nurse, will travel
- Now that her child is out of danger, a mother learns to enjoy life
- ‘It is not a disease, it is a way of life’
- Legal case reflects, fuels bias against kids with ADHD: Columnist
- Cellphones are great … if you can see them
- Disability groups help defeat assisted suicide bills
- What are autistic girls made of?
- Life with Down syndrome: Four decades of memories
- Federally funded autism research centers announced
- States consider mandatory insurance for autism
- Tips & wisdom
- Dismal graduation rates for students with disabilities
- Medicaid crisis seen in Texas
- Planned facility spurs segregation worries
- Asperger’s on Dailykos.com
- The world of sports
- Celebrating the possibilities for people with Down syndrome
- ‘Daily show’ discovers disability
- Electrodes help brain-injured man regain consciousness
- Travel
- Real jobs for real people
- Reaction to “Where’s Molly?”
- ‘Where’s Molly?’ One family’s experience with institutionalization
- A new perspective on prenatal screening
- A prenatal screening story with a difference
- Law day in disability world
- Tories seek to end inclusion of students with disabilities
- Epilepsy zeitgeist
- Special education’s Hager steps down
- From the in-box
- MS discovery sparks predictable treatment hopes
- Autism: Random? Or mom?
- Vouchers for kids with disabilities? Proceed with caution.
- A little housekeeping
- ‘My lovely son, the Hollywood star’
- Is the workplace discriminating against parents?
- More Sunday stories
- "Acting normal in a world that thinks you’re not" — on NPR
- Law grants new rights to European travelers with disabilities
- ADA anniversary, continued
- Diabetic and determined
- Special education = costly education
- Public buys harmful epilepsy ‘myths’: study
- On the 17th anniversary of the ADA …
- Writer: Disability = Taboo
- Democrats shift policy on abortion
- Millions for ‘wrongful birth’
- Planned Kevorkian speech draws protests
- Overhaul urged in veterans disability system
- No genetic privacy? No problem.
- The next generation of bionic people
- Schools beat back demands for special-ed services
- In China, children with disabilities are sold into slavery
- A helping hand for families living with chronic illness
- Alzheimer’s treatment seen
- To headline writers: Two thumbs down
- Braille literacy drop called civil rights issue
- The Zeitgeist
- Amnio report sparks disability debate
- UCLA offers college experience to students with intellectual disabilities
- Fetal medicine expert tells all
- Kuwaitis reported biased against Down syndrome
- Locked out.
- Sex selection redux
- Parallels between sex-selective abortions and selective terminations
- Who is helped and who is harmed by using donor eggs?
- Early screening cuts births of children with Down syndrome by 50 percent in Denmark
- Unkind words wound people with disabilities and their caregivers
- ‘Retard’: A mother’s view of a word that wounds
- From the in-box
- Prenatal screening tied to MD concerns over lawsuits: Economist
- A Tale of Two Daniels
- A calm, rational discussion of special education ….
- Student with Down syndrome wins challenge to graduation policy
- Friend needs to slow down, gather information
- Race, genetics and what else? Prenatal diagnosis
- States get dismal report cards on special ed
- Topics in prenatal diagnosis: Cosmetic enhancement, bullying, homophobia ….
- Michigan woman with DS killed in apparent murder-suicide
- Note to the media: We can do better
- Guaranteed to give you a headache
- Following up on the ‘pillow angel’ saga
- Real jobs for real people, take 2
- Secret pacts a problem for Santa Monica special ed
- More unintended consequences of prenatal diagnosis
- Prenatal diagnosis and perceptions of bias
- Language matters
- Public man, private father
- Real People, Working
- More Versailles photos
- PWD* reacts to prenatal screening
- College honors
- The paradox of ‘normal’
- PB column: What’s Lost in Prenatal Testing
- Beginning the blog
- Down syndrome in lay language
- PB column: The Abortion Debate No One Wants to Have
- Reporting on disability with nuance
- Margaret’s guide to Down syndrome
- What’s So Funny About Disability? Well . . .
- Prenatal tests put Down syndrome in hard focus
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