Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than one-third of mothers with intellectual and developmental disabilities have an interaction with the child welfare system ...

Children with disabilities who face disability-based discrimination at doctors’ appointments are more than twice as likely to forgo care later on, according to a new study published in Pediatrics.

The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously sided with a Minnesota family that has been battling their local school district over the education of their daughter in a decision that could make it easier ...

U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights is leading the probe into the district.

Months after releasing a report regarding an investigation into an “alarming lack of oversight” of one of the largest special education program providers in Connecticut, the Office of the Child ...

Children living with disabilities have fundamental human rights under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with ...

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has held in a preliminary ruling procedure that parents who care for a child with a disability may seek protection under the principle of equal ...

NEW ORLEANS — An Orleans Parish judge on Friday blocked children with disabilities from reviewing Catholic school records they’re seeking as a part of their discrimination case against the Archdiocese ...

Neurodiversity generally refers to medical conditions that cause the brain to function differently than the typical pattern. These conditions include autism, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the Committee on the Rights of the Child as it drafts General Comment No. 27 on children’s rights to access to justice and ...

UNICEF China launched a nationwide campaign on Friday to draw attention to the barriers faced by children with disabilities ...