Even as arrests are made and security is heightened at the state’s institutions, lawmakers say changes are coming too late.

Researchers are working to create “socially assistive” robots to help people with varying types of disabilities more easily interact with the world around them.

The fifth version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is expected in 2012 and already professionals are busy debating what exactly qualifies as a mental problem.

America is doing a poor job addressing the needs of the mentally ill, earning a D grade in a new report by the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

Workers at a Texas institution for people with disabilities are under investigation for allegedly running “fight club” style brawls among residents, police say.

A California regulatory agency said Monday that the state’s health insurers must provide speech, occupational and physical therapies, but not behavioral therapy, to people with autism.

The children of older fathers score lower on I.Q. tests than those born to younger men, according to new research.

As the President ordered that federal dollars be allowed to fund embryonic stem cell research, he made clear that his administration will, “make scientific decisions based on facts, not ideology.”

Two Seattle special education teachers were suspended for 10 days without pay for refusing to give their cognitively impaired students a state-mandated exam.

A judge ordered a Michigan insurer to prove its claim that applied behavioral analysis is experimental.

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For the third straight month unemployment rose among people with disabilities.

A bill in Congress would limit the public’s access to federally funded medical studies. And that has patient advocates and others in the health care community unhappy.

Drug makers can be sued for injury claims even though their products and labels are approved by the federal government, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Wednesday.

A Beijing father opened a restaurant so his son with cerebral palsy would have a place to go, things to do and people to learn from.