The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 addressed the rights of people with disabilities in their interactions with the federal ...

For decades, disabled people have fought for their rights to go to school and live alongside peers without disabilities — ...

Disability-rights advocates have long insisted that, as a matter of public policy, disabled people’s lives should resemble those of nondisabled people to the greatest extent possible. They have argued ...

The Justice Department's opinion challenges civil rights protections that have long treated the institutionalization of ...

Over two dozen disability rights activists were arrested on Capitol Hill last week when they protested the Trump-backed Republican budget bill and its cuts to Medicaid, affordable housing and more.

Advocates fought for change and disabled students began gaining new educational rights and protections. A few years later, in 1979, Congress created the DOE. Before the DOE, federal education programs ...

Rose covers disability and mental health, and she helps write STAT’s daily Morning Rounds newsletter. Confidential tips can be sent to Rose on Signal at rosebroderick.11. In the run-up to President ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'Historically, the way a government treats disabled people can be an early indicator of its broader social policy ...

Dozens of Texas disability rights and advocacy groups worry that a recent opinion from the U.S. Department of Justice could ...

As part of President Donald Trump’s attempt to remake the federal workforce, several directives have been issued to terminate recently hired employees and gut entire agencies. Many federal workers ...

Rally for disabled people's rights Members of the Solidarity Against Disability Discrimination, a group of disabled people, ...