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 ...

For the nearly 60% of Wisconsin's youths who say they've dealt with at least one mental health challenge in the last year, prioritizing academic success and social connections may fall to the wayside ...

After years of tacitly endorsing the only facility in the country known to use electric shocks to address behavior in those with developmental disabilities, a major behavior analysis organization is ...

For people with autism—especially those with intellectual disabilities, or others with extensive support needs—communicating needs and ideas can be difficult. Many rely on intense individualized ...

Hello everyone, and welcome to today’s online chat about educating adolescents with emotional and behavioral disorders. My name is Christina Samuels, and I cover special education for Education Week.

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 ...

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 ...

(MENAFN- EIN Presswire) EINPresswire/ -- In light of a recent shift in national policy, families and educators are grappling with changes to how special education is managed and enforced across the ...

On July 19, 2022, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) released several guidance documents concerning the ...

Parental attitudes and behavior predict outcomes in children with new daily persistent headache (NDPH), new research shows. Investigators from Boston Children's Hospital in Waltham, Massachusetts, ...

Through a series of columns starting with the previous Mindset Matters piece, the hope is to open a dialogue around the significance of the emerging Disability Economy and discover some of the ...

The Justice Department announced that it secured a settlement agreement with the State of Nevada to resolve the department’s findings that Nevada violates the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and ...