Disability Issues

An amendment to health care reform legislation would offer people with special needs greater access to in-home attendant services.

A development company run by the family of San Diego Chargers owner Alex Spanos has agreed to make some 12,300 apartment units accessible for people with disabilities in order to settle what is being called the largest housing accessibility case...

A Senate bill, passed in November, would establish a system for training and supporting caregivers of injured veterans.

A final achievement in a short but remarkable life was a contribution to improving housing conditions for those with special needs.

The Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 finally went into effect this year, and it promises to dramatically alter the way people with mental illness receive and pay for treatment.

While voting was much easier for people with disabilities in the 2008 election compared to 2000, many polling places still have impediments to voting that need to be removed, according to a new study by the Government Accountability Office.

President Obama recently nominated Ari Neeman, a 22-year-old man with autism and the founder of the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network to serve on the National Council on Disability. However, the Senate has placed a hold on Mr. Ne'eman's nomination due...

The Federal Interagency Coordinating Council on Access and Mobility created a new, interactive online dialogue called United We Ride which took place during the first two weeks of November. The entire dialogue is now available for review.

So far, seven states have passed laws mandating that insurance companies provide coverage for applied behavior therapy for children with autism, according to the advocacy group Autism Speaks. Coverage for the treatment can save families tens of thousands of...