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The Trump administration is moving forward with sweeping plans to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education, a move ...

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A first-of-its-kind competitive sports league specifically for athletes with intellectual disabilities is kicking off this ...

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The nation's pediatricians are getting new guidelines for how to go about evaluating children who present with global developmental delay or intellectual disability.

As the Trump administration lays out ambitious plans to address autism, many longtime leaders and well-known experts in the field have been left out, stakeholders indicate.

For a decade, disability advocates led a concerted effort to stomp out use of the word "retard." Now they're concerned that the language appears to be making a comeback.

For the first time in four years, the amount of money that people with disabilities can save without jeopardizing eligibility for government benefits is rising.