With a pair of new hires and recent comments, advocates say the Trump administration appears to be actively laying the ...

One of the nation's most well-known people with autism is being honored alongside notables like famed director Steven ...

For the first time ever, a wheelchair user traveled above the Kármán line, the internationally recognized boundary of space.

As federal officials begin to outline more stringent Medicaid eligibility rules, worries are running high about what the ...

When Stacey Plantt filed a federal complaint against her son's day care claiming he was unjustly expelled, she wanted not only compensation for her family but also significant change. Stores are ...

As the Trump administration takes sweeping steps to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education, the agency is still deciding what the future holds for special education. The Education Department said ...

President Donald Trump is tapping newly confirmed U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead a commission charged with addressing autism and other “health burdens.” ...

The U.S. Department of Education is in talks to move oversight of special education programs to another federal agency. An Education Department official said this week that the agency is working to ...

After officials in the last holdout state enacted a new rule, all 50 states and Washington, D.C. have mandates that require some level of insurance coverage for the treatment of autism. The Tennessee ...

With no time to spare, federal lawmakers approved a renewal of the nation’s primary autism law, paving with the way for over $1.95 billion in spending to address the developmental disability in the ...

Seventeen states are no longer seeking to invalidate one of the nation’s key disability rights laws, but advocates say threats remain. A lawsuit brought by Texas and 16 other states garnered ...

The nation’s largest retailer is planning to provide special carts at every one of its locations designed to alleviate the need for caregivers to push both a cart and a wheelchair while shopping.