Students with disabilities will be allowed on the homecoming court ballot, administrators at a Kansas high school say, after being excluded for more than a decade.

Before leaving for a summer break, Senators unanimously approved legislation to replace the term “mental retardation” with “intellectual disability” in some areas of federal government.

The number of mainstreamed students with intellectual disabilities is up dramatically in Connecticut, but advocates say schools have not done enough to truly include such students.

Under a federal grant program, public transit services are deploying trainers to teach those with disabilities how to use fixed route buses rather than rely on door-to-door service.

A shorter, more interactive service is allowing some people with developmental disabilities the opportunity to engage in religion while being themselves.

A Massachusetts couple is asking their son’s school district to remove a science textbook concerned its characterization of Down syndrome could lead to bullying.

The lawmaker who introduced legislation to expand independent living options is speaking out in support of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi after self-advocates heckled her.

In New York — one of the last states to retain the word “retardation” in a department title — advocates are split on efforts to eliminate a term some consider offensive.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi resorted to yelling parts of a speech Tuesday over the voices of protesters in wheelchairs calling for “our homes, not nursing homes.”

Families of children born premature fare well long-term, even when those children experience developmental disabilities, new research indicates.

The unemployment rate ticked down slightly in May for people with disabilities, possibly due to a large number of temporary hires, the Labor Department said Friday.

Efforts to shutter hundreds of Los Angeles special education classrooms are emblematic of a growing trend, critics say, of cost cutting at the expense of students with disabilities.