A fully accessible college dorm opening this week is believed to be the most user-friendly in the country for students with physical disabilities.

Advocates in Hawaii are heading to court hoping to force the state to allow students with disabilities to stay in school until age 22, as is the case in many parts of the country.

As heat waves roll across the country, an on-campus Baskin-Robbins is bringing students with disabilities at one California school relief.

A Chicago family is returning their son’s high school diploma and sending him back to school at age 21 because they say his education was subpar.

Eric Duquette didn’t utter his first word until age 5, but this week the teen with autism graduated as the salutatorian of his high school class.

A final set of national academic standards released Wednesday calls for students with disabilities to be “challenged to excel within the general curriculum.”

A lawsuit is calling into question how colleges determine whether or not students with disabilities should qualify for extra time on tests and, if so, how much.

A woman with cerebral palsy received the nation’s highest paying literary award for an undergraduate student thanks in part to a witty set of writings on dating and disability.

Members of Congress are teaming up with a Washington, DC-area postsecondary program to offer young adults with intellectual disabilities internships on Capitol Hill.

Bold steps are needed to increase housing options for a burgeoning population of adults with autism, researchers say in a report out this week.

A Michigan college must allow a student with a cognitive impairment to live in student housing a U.S. district court has ruled.

Lawmakers should work to establish consistency in the implementation of services when Congress meets next year to reauthorize the IDEA, a group of educators says.

One in 10 college students has a disability but the federal government needs to do more to accommodate these students, a new report finds.

College-level academics are attainable for many with high functioning autism but a unique program is helping students break down the social barriers that can make a degree an uphill battle.

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