Jonaki Mehta is a producer for All Things Considered. Before ATC, she worked at Neon Hum Media where she produced a documentary series and talk show. Prior to that, Mehta was a producer at Member ...

As the U.S. Department of Education continues to transfer responsibilities to other agencies, disability advocates are ...

New data shows that the number of U.S. children eligible for services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act jumped significantly. Nearly 8.2 million kids ages 3 to 21 qualified for ...

At most University of Wisconsin institutions, at least one in every 10 students have a registered disability.

Special education and disability represent an evolving field that spans legal, pedagogical, and practical domains. In recent decades, traditional segregated schooling practices have largely been ...

This guest essay reflects the views of Philip S. Cicero, retired superintendent of Lynbrook Public Schools. In the early 1970s, nearly 2 million students with disabilities could not attend public ...

For too long, individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) have been denied the same opportunities for ...

Some legislators questioned whether school districts should be responsible for providing certain services to students with ...

Taylor Chaney founded the Garden Foundation seven years ago, inspired by her sister Lindsey.

Sueli Gwiazdowski, 24, says she switched high schools three times when she was growing up. She wanted to stay at her first school because she loved being on the speech and debate team – but the campus ...

She wanted to stay at her first school because she loved being on the speech and debate team – but the campus wasn’t wheelchair accessible. Her second school forced her to learn in a separate room, ...