Special education oversight is changing hands, from the Department of Education to Health and Human Services. The department ...

Special education programs and the civil rights office will be moved out of the Education Department, the most aggressive ...

The Supreme Court will hear a case next month that could have far-reaching effects on disability rights. The question at the heart of the case, CVS Pharmacy, Inc. vs. Doe, is whether claims of ...

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

The National Federation of the Blind sued the departments of Justice and Health and Human Services after a rule requiring ...

Advocates for disability rights are fighting the lawsuit, which would push more people to be warehoused in institutions.

A new book reveals the long relationship between race, disability, and nationhood in the revolutionary-era United States.

Laws that allow doctors to help kill their patients risk a 'deadly and discriminatory system' for disabled individuals, suits ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has reached an agreement with the State of Illinois Department of Human Services to enforce federal disability rights ...

Disability rights advocates gathered outside the state Capitol to push back on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed cuts to in-home ...

The advocates oppose the legislation, which takes effect in September. The suits, filed in Illinois and New York on Thursday, ...