"Judge delivers justice for Black student with disabilities cuffed by school police, issues scathing order. Must-read story!" ...

When we want to go to the store, most of us lace up our sneakers, grab our car keys and head out the door. But for people with intellectual disabilities living in residential group homes and supported ...

Learn how mishandled IEP and 504 accommodations can harm Black disabled students, leading to disciplinary consequences and ...

The pandemic has revealed some truths: A lack of mental health providers to sufficiently meet the needs of those in crisis (including providers of color); and the stress that COVID-19 has introduced ...

Whether disparities in disability identification in U.S. elementary schools are currently occurring is an important question to answer. Most of the available work has been unable to compare students ...

The judge had so much to weigh, it seemed. Declarations from the psychiatrist and therapist saying no, not yet: Ryan Morris is still vulnerable, adjusting to a new home with his biological family for ...

Virtually everyone agrees that students should be safe at schools, but opinions vary on how to accomplish that goal. Some think the idea of “hardening schools” — or adding more security measures ...

Although the home environment is known to influence behavior problems in children with developmental disabilities (DD), the precise contributions of specific domains remained unquantified, hindering ...

A school is not supposed to suspend or expel a student if their behavior stems from their disability. Education attorneys consider that to be disability discrimination. "I do feel like he was ...

According to the Justice Department, Oklahoma unnecessarily institutionalizes adults with behavioral health disabilities in the Oklahoma County area, in violation of Title II of the Americans with ...

Maine unnecessarily segregates children with behavioral health disabilities in hospitals, residential facilities and a state-run juvenile detention facility, the U.S. Department of Justice announced ...