Advocates for those with profound autism say that a committee tasked with guiding the federal government’s strategy on the developmental disability is largely ignoring the needs of this population. A ...

As a father of a daughter with profound disabilities, my 14-year journey has encompassed agonizing isolation, relentless defeat, and overwhelming uncertainty. Firsthand, I’ve experienced that fathers ...

July is Disability Awareness Month and I thought it appropriate to discuss a pivotal piece of legislation that impacted all people with disabilities, and our society at large. The Americans with ...

Child support past 18 is usually seen in cases where the child has special needs or is disabled. Apart from cases where obvious or profound disabilities can be seen to exist, the issue of a child's ...

On January 2, the Supreme Court ordered political parties to include persons with disabilities in their proportional ...

DEAR ABBY: I have a 54-year-old profoundly disabled, nonverbal child who is in a group home. I have been advocating for her since birth, when we learned she had suffered severe brain damage. The ...

Receiving a cancer diagnosis is life-altering. So is raising a child with profound disabilities. Managing both at once, with treatment plans, caregiving decisions and financial burdens, can feel ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Disability advocates are scrambling and said they are fearful their children with severe diagnoses will soon regress because of a lack of care. This stems from rollbacks to a ...