New research from the School of Social Work and Social Policy has found that 98% of abused disabled women feel that having a disability has major impacts on seeking help and coping with intimate ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dec. 4—A cellphone video taken inside a Santa Fe care facility in May shows a disturbing scene: A young man who worked as a ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Disabled people are five times more likely to experience domestic violence than ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Children with psychological or intellectual disabilities and people who are deaf, blind or autistic are up to five times more likely to suffer abuse. VATICAN CITY (RNS) — ...

-- Reposted from the online magazine, "The Trauma & Mental Health Report" The term disability is used regularly, although its definition remains somewhat elusive. Statistics Canada defines “disability ...

An advocate for the disabled has sued the Cuomo administration for detailed disclosures about crimes against disabled individuals in state care and is questioning why thousands of calls to the state’s ...

Nearly 40 years after federal laws began requiring schools to educate disabled students alongside their nondisabled peers as much as possible, many of these children are still channeled into separate ...

Disabled parking placards are designed to make life easier for people with disabilities, but misuse across California takes resources from people who need them the most. Spokesman Ronald Ongtoaboc ...

Disabled people in congregated and institutional settings are still not being protected from the threat of violence, neglect, coercion, and financial abuse, ministers have been told. In a letter to ...

A patient with severe disabilities suffered serious abuse at a group home in Ocean County, according to allegations detailed in a report recently published by NJ Advance Media. Across New Jersey, ...

DIRECTOR of Social Services Aneita Duncombe believes motorists who illegally use parking spaces reserved for people with disabilities should face fines of up to $1,500 — six times the penalty proposed ...

This article contains language and accounts of abuse directed at people with disabilities, which some will find offensive. Lindsay Knott was walking down the stairs into the concourse at half-time of ...