A Florida teacher who encouraged her kindergarten students to vote on whether or not a student with autism should remain in her classroom will keep her tenure.

A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee voted Wednesday to recommend that Seroquel, Geodon and Zyprexa be approved for use in children.

A record number of housing discrimination complaints were filed last year, most alleging discrimination based on disability.

The head of one of the nation’s largest special education programs gives you an insider’s take.

Researchers are looking for 1,200 pregnant women who already have a child with autism to participate in one of the largest studies ever conducted on the disorder.

Officials say the error was innocent but parents argue the school has done too little to make amends.

Jobs are hard to come by for people with disabilities, recession or not. But a campaign by a consortium of leading disability organizations is seeking to change that trend.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says she’s “blessed” to have a child with Down syndrome and will remain a staunch advocate for people with developmental disabilities.

A new method of measuring student achievement is gaining ground to help those capable of learning, but struggling with Scantrons.

Britain is largely ill equipped to deal with its population of adults with autism, a government report finds.

The number of unemployed people with disabilities grew in May, following a two month decline.

High school graduation will be bittersweet for one Illinois student with Down syndrome who’s had the same one-to-one since first grade.

Teachers at a New York City school say their principal told them to inflate grades for special education students who failed to show up for class or complete work.

As states look for ways to trim, Medicaid is feeling the crunch, leading fewer doctors to accept the government run insurance program.

Sixty-eight percent of experts tasked with revising the leading manual of psychiatric disorders have a financial link to drug companies.