For individuals with disabilities, the road to becoming an independent adult can be challenging. A new film finds one man on ...

Forward-thinking companies recognize that hiring people with disabilities is not about charity—it’s about opportunity. And ...

One in five American adults have at least one kind of disability, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Thursday. The study, drawn from 2013 data, says ...

A local non-profit is celebrating 60 years of uplifting people through day services, nursing support and accessible housing.

But then things felt confusing after I graduated. I wanted to go to college. Date. Get a job. Live on my own. But no one tells you how to be an adult, let alone an adult with a disability.

Adults with disabilities no longer qualify for the same care, services and programs that they did as children. Instead, youth who turn 18 and their families must tackle a long checklist of tasks that ...

Disability Voices United also found “enormous differences” in what regional centers were spending to support adults who were living away from their families in their own places.

Nick is among nearly 20,000 people with developmental disabilities in Illinois who are on a waiting list to get into adult programs. Many of them come from families who don’t have a way to pay ...

The charity has raised funds over the past three years to double the size of the space, which is hoped to encourage residents ...

Caring for an adult child with developmental disabilities or mental illness increased by 38 percent the chances that an aging parent would develop disabilities of their own, according to findings of a ...

Recent study out of FAU explains why young people with intellectual and developmental disabilities often overlooked in suicide prevention efforts.

In the late 1990s, the state opened Aging and Disability Resource Centers to give people access to information within their community. It has since expanded long term care services. Wisconsin also ...