Disability Rights New York is investigating a private residential school where students allegedly subjected to physical abuse and inhuman living conditions Disability Rights New York filed a lawsuit ...

Scheer, a man with developmental disabilities and mobility issues who used a wheelchair, was living at the state-run St. Louis Developmental Disabilities Treatment Center in St. Charles in June 2020 ...

Group home operators serving people with autism and other developmental disabilities would face fines for the first time in ...

For the past five years, Nick Battiola called his Disability Rights Wisconsin victim advocate, Pam Malin, any time he felt on the verge of a breakdown, whenever memories of the caregiver who became ...

GENEVA, Ill. — An investigation is underway after a resident at a center for people with disabilities was sexually abused, resulting in a pregnancy. The administration of Marklund was informed of a ...

You don’t have to read past the first two sentences of the summary of the latest audit of the S.C. Department of Disabilities and Special Needs to recognize that heads need to roll: “DDSN does not ...

FAIRFIELD, Ohio (WKRC) - Local 12 is following the struggle of local families to find safe and affordable care for their loved ones with developmental disabilities. There is new information on the ...

NEWTON, Kan. (KSNW) — Proposed federal budget cuts could hurt programs that protect the rights of people with disabilities and prevent abuse. Nancy Jensen remembers the years she spent at Kaufman ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study shows that women with a disability are far more likely to experience a physical assault by a spouse or other intimate partner than those without a disability.

SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – Months after systemic abuse within the state’s developmental disabilities care program came to light, health officials are continuing to try to improve the ability to report ...

This article contains language and accounts of abuse directed at people with disabilities, which some will find offensive. Lindsay Knott was walking down the stairs into the concourse at half-time of ...