Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan announced Monday that it will begin offering coverage for autism treatments July 1.

President Barack Obama’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2010 includes increased funds for employment assistance for people with disabilities as well as autism research and awareness.

The unemployment rate for people with disabilities declined slightly in April, though that’s partly due to a decrease in the number of people in this population considered to be in the workforce.

The number of special education teachers who leave the profession or move to other areas of teaching is higher than in nearly any other area of education.

An amendment introduced in U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday seeks to fully fund the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

In more than 70 percent of cases where abusive interventions were used with children with disabilities at school, parents did not consent to seclusion and restraint tactics.

Kids on the verge of an outburst have a new place to go to cool down at one Indiana school.

Answers to your questions about how to obtain a good diagnosis and how to deal with it.

Children and teens with developmental disabilities and other special needs are ostracized or purposely ignored more often than their typically developing peers.

A part of the brain that controls how people interpret facial expressions and other behaviors is larger in children who have autism than those who don’t.

When the bug hit a school that serves students with disabilities exclusively, it brought with it a whole new set of problems.

Plans for a fund-raiser at an Australian school quickly went south when people heard that the event included a contest for the “best students dressed as a person with a disability.”

The lawsuit claims that children with disabilities were denied admission or removed from schools run by Nobel Learning Communities Inc., which runs more than 180 schools.