Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ethan Saylor was a 26-year-old with Down syndrome who loved music, movies and animals. His mother describes him as "quite the ...

Doctors in the U.S. have reported feeling unprepared to care for people with disabilities and have revealed significant negative bias about this population, according to previous research. A ...

English learners who are also identified as students with disabilities experience unique needs in K-12 schools—and their teachers need specialized, interdisciplinary training, experts say. This ...

More than sixty-one million Americans have disabilities, and increasing evidence documents that they experience health care disparities. Although many factors likely contribute to these disparities, ...

Disability advocates are pushing for a requirement that all medical schools specifically train future doctors to treat people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, but they’re hitting ...

Disability civil rights laws require equitable treatment of the approximately sixty-one million Americans with disability. However, federal reports and numerous research studies indicate that this ...

Megan Pritchard, a third-year nursing student at Aston University, has written a paper outlining the health inequalities faced by people with learning difficulties and suggesting achievable ways to ...