Deputy Secretary Marlana Hutchinson listens to advocates testify Thursday on proposed cuts to the Developmental Disabilities Administration budget. (Photo by Danielle J. Brown). State officials said ...
Homesteads for Hope Community Farm is holding its January Speaker Series event on January 22, from 5 to 7 p.m. in the main ...
Adults with developmental disabilities deserve Real Lives Although the Real Lives law, guaranteeing the right to self-direct and ordering the Department of Developmental Services to make it happen, ...
During the Civil Rights Movement, disabled activists helped shape new legal protections. Decades later, local self-advocates ...
For half a century, the U.S. has been achieving one of the most important civil rights victories most Americans have never heard of: closing the large institutions that once warehoused people with ...
As the Maryland Department of Health prepares to roll out changes Thursday to care for the disabled, protesters took to Lawyer’s Mall outside the Maryland State House over concerns about what effects ...
The Northwest Ohio Waiver Administration Council will be hosting a self advocacy kick-off event on Aug. 13, 2012, at the Defiance Eagles from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Self advocacy helps individuals with ...
CHEYENNE – The Wyoming Governor’s Council on Developmental Disabilities (WGCDD) is hosting the annual Wyoming Developmental Disabilities Conference next month in Cheyenne. The conference is the ...
March is Developmental Disability Awareness Month, established by President Ronald Reagan in 1987. Despite facing higher unemployment rates, people with developmental disabilities possess a wide range ...
People with physical, mental, and developmental disabilities have long been discriminated against and marginalized across the globe, but the roots of disability inequity and its social consequences ...
With the Food and Drug Administration poised to again ban the use of electric shock devices on people with developmental disabilities, advocates are warning that some in Congress are quietly trying to ...