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Historically, actors who play characters with disabilities have been rewarded with ticket sales and even Academy Awards. But a study shows viewers are tired of inauthentic representations.
The law says public schools must give students with disabilities the services that meet their individual needs, but parents and districts often disagree on what those services should be.
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People with disabilities who receive Social Security or Supplemental Security Income benefits will get more money next year.
Johnson & Johnson must pay $8 billion to a man who claimed the company failed to warn that boys using its drug Risperdal — commonly prescribed to those with autism — could grow breasts.
A government agency is calling on the Trump administration to clarify that individuals with developmental disabilities should not be disqualified from receiving life-saving organ transplants.
More than a half dozen districts have declined to serve a group of students with severe disabilities and, as a result, the kids may soon be without schooling altogether, a lawsuit claims.
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The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for people with disabilities to sue retailers if their websites are not accessible.
A grandmother who said she only has months to live has been arrested after giving her grandson who had a disability a lethal dose of painkillers so they could go to heaven together.
The services provided through Medicaid waivers to children with the most severe disabilities vary wildly from state to state, researchers say, leaving many families to pick up the pieces.
Google says it is working to make smartphones easier to use for people with cognitive disabilities.
Hospital officials are apologizing after employees created a "wall of shame" of patients with disabilities by cutting and taping portions of their private medical records to a cabinet door.
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With little time to spare, President Donald Trump approved an extension of the nation's primary autism law, authorizing $1.8 billion in spending on the developmental disorder.
After officials in the last holdout state enacted a new rule, all 50 states and Washington, D.C. have mandates that require some level of insurance coverage for the treatment of autism.
A new apartment complex on the site of a former institution will house people with disabilities alongside older adults in what developers tout as a unique model, but not everyone is on board.
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