Changes in disability income can quietly affect your monthly SSDI check, depending on how the SSA classifies what you’re paid.

When Debra McAdams stepped into her role leading special education for Nashville schools in 2009, she knew she would ...

Two cases involving Tennessee children with autism illustrate the harsh, complex realities they face in the juvenile justice ...

A bill authored by Rep. Garrett Bascom, R-Lawrenceburg, (second from right) would establish new procedures to ensure defendants with intellectual disabilities are not sentenced to death. (Photo by ...

EAST GOSHEN TOWNSHIP, Pa. (WPVI) -- A Philadelphia man working as a caretaker at an assisted-living home in East Goshen Township is facing charges after police say he repeatedly struck a non-verbal ...

Increasing evidence suggests that the severe gum disease, periodontitis, may contribute to central nervous system disorders through chronic inflammation. However, its role in multiple sclerosis, a ...

Among multiple sclerosis (MS) patients, those with a high relative abundance of Fusobacterium nucleatum together with other periodontal bacteria were more likely to have moderate to severe disability ...

Some Head Start early childhood programs are being told by the federal government to remove a list of nearly 200 words and phrases from their funding applications or they could be denied. That's ...

Introduction The United Nations underlines the participation in all domains of daily living for people with intellectual and/or multiple disabilities in the Disability Rights Convention, which also ...

Parents and advocates report that adult medicine, emergency rooms and urgent care centers are often unprepared to handle these patients. Some hospitals are implementing changes, such as coordinating ...

Roche said its fenebrutinib drug candidate met primary goals in two late-stage trials for multiple sclerosis, reducing attacks or delaying disability progression in two different forms of the disease.

Department of Special Needs Education and Rehabilitation, School of Educational and Social Sciences, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany The participation of children with ...