Disability Scoop

Medicaid Changes Could Limit Access For People With Disabilities, Advocates Warn

As federal officials begin to outline more stringent Medicaid eligibility rules, worries are running high about what the ...
Disability Scoop

Justice Department Cites States For Disability Rights Violations

A quarter century after a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision affirming the rights of people with disabilities to live in the community, federal officials are cracking down on Americans with ...
Times Union

Disability rights group sues state over guardianship system

ALBANY — Four people with intellectual and developmental disabilities filed a lawsuit this week in state Supreme Court in Albany alleging that “illegal and discriminatory” guardianships over them has ...
unr.edu

Nevada's University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD)

The Nevada Center for Excellence in Disabilities serves as Nevada's University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD). The UCEDDs were established and funded by the Developmental ...
Parkersburg News and Sentinel

Disability Rights Ohio plans job, resource fair

MARIETTA — Disability Rights Ohio is teaming up with multiple organizations to showcase opportunities and assistance for area residents with disabilities. The nonprofit’s first Job and Disability ...
Concord Monitor

‘We were given no heads up’: How a developmental disability facility in Bow became fodder for discontentment over local control

The house on Stack Drive had been up for sale for over a year. After it sold, Matt St. Cyr watched from his home less than 50 feet away as routine renovations took place — new siding, roofing and ...
WUNC

Changes in access to services for NC residents with disabilities after compromise halts long legal fight

North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services office complex at Dorothea Dix Park North Carolinians with intellectual and developmental disabilities can expect changes in access to ...