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More than two years after federal officials signaled that they would update regulations to keep medical providers from discriminating against people with disabilities, advocates say the clock is ticking.

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Federal Medicaid officials are proposing major changes aimed at improving access to home and community-based services for people with disabilities and bolstering the DSP workforce.

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Legislation introduce in Congress would provide grants to organizations so that they can offer caregiver skills training for families of children with autism and other disabilities.

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A former teacher is suing after he says he was terminated for speaking out about staffing shortages and health and safety risks within his school district’s special education program.

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With autism prevalence continuing to rise, the CDC says it will monitor the number of children with the developmental disability in more communities across the nation.

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Five staffers at an elementary school are facing criminal charges after police say a video showed them forcing a 7-year-old student with a disability to eat his own vomit.

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After the U.S. House of Representatives passed a plan to slash federal spending and raise the nation’s debt ceiling, advocates say access to Medicaid and other disability programs could be imperiled.

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The record-setting award goes to a child with cerebral palsy whose mother claimed that he was injured because doctors waited too long to perform a cesarean section.

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An estimated 1.3 million people with autism in the U.S. live with a parent or guardian over age 60 leaving many families to navigate the challenge of what happens when mom and dad are gone.

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With a new report, the CDC is tacitly embracing a recently coined autism classification and providing a first-of-its-kind breakdown on the number of kids on the severe versus milder ends of the spectrum.

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