New York Post

FAA’s diversity push includes focus on hiring people with ‘severe intellectual’ and ‘psychiatric’ disabilities

The Federal Aviation Administration is actively recruiting workers who suffer “severe intellectual” disabilities, psychiatric problems and other mental and physical conditions under a diversity and ...
MarketWatch

I’m 60 and a single mother. My daughter, 17, has a developmental disability. How do I make sure she’s taken care of after I’m gone?

I adopted a child as an older single mom. My daughter’s birth mom drank while she was pregnant and, as a result, my daughter has moderate intellectual disabilities which will affect her all of her ...
AZ Central

New Grand Canyon University program gives college experience to students with intellectual disabilities

Emma Cardon was beaming, ready to start another day as a college student. The purple flower accents on her dress and in her hair matched the signature color of her dream school, Grand Canyon ...
Chicago Tribune

People with developmental disabilities can wait years for community placements, state records show

Aaron Bass likes some things about Shapiro Developmental Center, a home he shares with some 500 others on a site along the Kankakee River that first housed Illinois residents with disabilities nearly ...

Judge denies intellectual disability defense for convicted Lakeland murderer Marcelle Waldon

Marcelle Waldon, who killed Edie Yates Henderson and David Henderson in Lakeland in 2020, will remain eligible for the death ...