The Home Modification Program was recently announced by State Rep. Maurice West (D-Rockford). This program offers grant funding to help people with disabilities make changes to their homes so they can ...

A law that takes effect in the new year aims to improves protections for missing people with developmental disabilities.

About 60,000 children with developmental disabilities qualify for a free Illinois program that provides speech, physical therapy, and other services. It's called "early intervention" and can be a game ...

Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest news on Chicago Public Schools. Illinois officials want more families to know about ...

New research suggests that culturally relevant and bilingual training advocacy programs like FIRME empower parents to ...

CHICAGO -- Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday signed a long-awaited bill to stop Illinois organizations from paying less than the minimum wage to workers with disabilities. The bill applies to businesses and ...

President Donald Trump wants to cut $163 billion in federal spending next year, potentially zeroing out key disability programs, some of which are already pausing services because they’re running out ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write on the intersection of disability and the U.S. workforce. Noteworthy is workers with a disability were more likely to be ...

The Trump administration wants to eliminate the nation’s university centers on developmental disabilities and rethink the way Individuals with Disabilities Education Act programs are funded, but a new ...

Beginning in the fall semester, students in the Georgetown University College of Arts & Sciences will have the option to declare a major in disability studies. The major will build on the program’s ...

Republicans’ hostility to Social Security in general has been well-documented over the years. Less widely recognized is their antagonism for one component of the program: disability coverage. As a ...