Handi-Crafters, a Chester County nonprofit supporting employment for the mentally and developmentally disabled, celebrated ...

Two years after the Food and Drug Administration proposed a ban on the use of electric shock devices to address behavior ...

44-year-old Antonio Boone says the help he received from the Cuyahoga County Board of Developmental Disabilities forensic unit helped to make his journey through the court system easier - and ...

The Butler County Board of Developmental Disabilities levy is currently passing by a 53-47 ratio, according to partial, ...

Developmental disabilities can affect someone physically, mentally, and emotionally. That’s where the CCBDD steps in, serving ...

This story was commissioned by the River City Journalism Fund. After Ronald Scheer was found suffocated to death by the straps of his own wheelchair, an autopsy determined his cause of death was ...

Parenting a child with developmental disabilities is both incredibly rewarding and extremely difficult. It's a journey filled with love and resilience, yet marked by frustration at a system that often ...

OUR NEXT HELPER GIVES PEOPLE LIVING WITH DISABILITIES THE HELP THEY NEED TO LIVE INDEPENDENT, FULFILLED LIVES. SINCE I’VE BEEN HERE, I DIDN’T NEVER KNOW I COULD DO ALL THE THINGS I COULD ACCOMPLISH.

Thankfully long gone are the days when individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities were destined for places like Maryland’s now-shuttered Rosewood Center, once formally titled the ...

From 2017 through 2023, roughly 2,680 people with developmental disabilities died under the care of the state of Missouri — on average, one person every day. This story was commissioned by the River ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A registered nurse, Dina Lester left her job working for the state in part over concerns about its poor level of care (Anna ...