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After years struggling to find staff to support people with IDD living in the community, an influx of federal dollars allowed service providers to make headway, but the gains could be short-lived. #disabilities #Medicaid
Medicaid Cuts Put Disability Services At Risk, Advocates Warn
After years struggling to find staff to support people with IDD living in the community, an influx of federal dollars allowed service providers to make headway, but the gains could be short-lived.
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January 27, 2026 at 3:46 AM
After years struggling to find staff to support people with IDD living in the community, an influx of federal dollars allowed service providers to make headway, but the gains could be short-lived. #disabilities #Medicaid
More people with #disabilities, from hard-of-hearing to #autism spectrum disorder, are uniting with #ServiceDogs to help them with everyday tasks.
Service Dogs' Roles Are Expanding To Help More People
More people with disabilities, from hard-of-hearing to autism spectrum disorder, are uniting with service dogs to help them with everyday tasks.
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January 27, 2026 at 3:45 AM
More people with #disabilities, from hard-of-hearing to #autism spectrum disorder, are uniting with #ServiceDogs to help them with everyday tasks.
An upcoming episode of a popular #PBSKids show will be told from the viewpoint of a character with #autism. #disabilities
'Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood' To Highlight Character With Autism
An upcoming episode of a popular PBS Kids show will be told from the viewpoint of a character with autism.
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January 26, 2026 at 4:00 AM
An upcoming episode of a popular #PBSKids show will be told from the viewpoint of a character with #autism. #disabilities
Already-anxious parents say their kids, who are U.S. citizens, are missing not just school but also therapy appointments to avoid encountering potentially hostile federal agents. #disabilities #Minneapolis #ICE
Children With Disabilities Particularly Vulnerable To Minneapolis ICE Crackdown
Already-anxious parents say their kids, who are U.S. citizens, are missing not just school but also therapy appointments to avoid encountering potentially hostile federal agents.
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January 26, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Already-anxious parents say their kids, who are U.S. citizens, are missing not just school but also therapy appointments to avoid encountering potentially hostile federal agents. #disabilities #Minneapolis #ICE
A budget agreement working its way through #Congress rebuffs Trump administration efforts to make major changes to the Individuals with #Disabilities Education Act and eliminate some disability programs. #SpecialEducation
Congress Poised To Reject Trump Changes To Special Ed, Disability Programs
A budget agreement working its way through Congress rebuffs Trump administration efforts to make major changes to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and eliminate some disability programs...
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January 23, 2026 at 4:47 AM
A budget agreement working its way through #Congress rebuffs Trump administration efforts to make major changes to the Individuals with #Disabilities Education Act and eliminate some disability programs. #SpecialEducation
The Nazis built the first gas chambers to systematically murder institutionalized people with #disabilities resulting in nearly 300,000 deaths, yet these victims are often the last to be remembered. #Holocaust
New Film Tells Untold Story Of Holocaust Victims With Disabilities
The Nazis built the first gas chambers to systematically murder institutionalized people with disabilities resulting in nearly 300,000 deaths, yet these victims are often the last to be remembered.
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January 23, 2026 at 4:46 AM
The Nazis built the first gas chambers to systematically murder institutionalized people with #disabilities resulting in nearly 300,000 deaths, yet these victims are often the last to be remembered. #Holocaust
At Hugs Cafe, chefs and cashiers are adults with #disabilities serving from-scratch food. As a second location opens, the nonprofit behind the breakfast and lunch spot says it's hoping to add more.
Restaurant Staffed By Adults With Disabilities Is In Expansion Mode
At Hugs Cafe, chefs and cashiers are adults with disabilities serving from-scratch food. As a second location opens, the nonprofit behind the breakfast and lunch spot says it's hoping to add more.
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January 22, 2026 at 4:49 AM
At Hugs Cafe, chefs and cashiers are adults with #disabilities serving from-scratch food. As a second location opens, the nonprofit behind the breakfast and lunch spot says it's hoping to add more.
Taking #Tylenol during pregnancy does not increase the risk that a child will have #autism, intellectual disability or #ADHD, according to a new study that contradicts recent warnings from some top government officials. #disabilities
Major Review Refutes Claims Of Autism-Tylenol Link
Taking Tylenol during pregnancy does not increase the risk that a child will have autism, intellectual disability or ADHD, according to a new study that contradicts warnings from U.S. officials.
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January 21, 2026 at 3:15 AM
Taking #Tylenol during pregnancy does not increase the risk that a child will have #autism, intellectual disability or #ADHD, according to a new study that contradicts recent warnings from some top government officials. #disabilities
The Food and Drug Administration quietly removed a page from its website warning consumers about bogus products and therapies that claim to treat or cure #autism. #disabilities #FDA
FDA Pulls Warning About 'Potentially Dangerous' Autism Therapies
The Food and Drug Administration quietly removed a page from its website warning consumers about bogus products and therapies that claim to treat or cure autism.
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January 20, 2026 at 4:17 AM
The Food and Drug Administration quietly removed a page from its website warning consumers about bogus products and therapies that claim to treat or cure #autism. #disabilities #FDA
Television coverage of the upcoming winter #Olympics is on track to be more #accessible to people with #disabilities than ever before. #NBC
NBC Making Olympics Coverage More Accessible
Television coverage of the upcoming winter Olympics is on track to be more accessible to people with disabilities than ever before.
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January 20, 2026 at 4:17 AM
Television coverage of the upcoming winter #Olympics is on track to be more #accessible to people with #disabilities than ever before. #NBC
The #Trump administration wants deep cuts for state-based legal services for people with #disabilities, as advocates say the #JusticeDepartment pushed out many of its lawyers who worked on such issues.
Disability Rights Lawyers Threatened With Budget Cuts, Reassignments
The Trump administration wants deep cuts for state-based legal services for people with disabilities, as advocates say the Justice Department pushed out many of its lawyers who worked on such issues.
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January 20, 2026 at 4:16 AM
The #Trump administration wants deep cuts for state-based legal services for people with #disabilities, as advocates say the #JusticeDepartment pushed out many of its lawyers who worked on such issues.
The two-year university-based program will teach high school students with developmental #disabilities job and life skills and then invite them to live on campus and work in supported #employment. #SpecialEducation
Program Offers Students With Intellectual Disabilities Bridge To Adulthood
The two-year university-based program will teach high school students with developmental disabilities job and life skills and then invite them to live on campus and work in supported employment.
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January 20, 2026 at 4:16 AM
The two-year university-based program will teach high school students with developmental #disabilities job and life skills and then invite them to live on campus and work in supported #employment. #SpecialEducation
As federal officials look to clarify recent rules designed to bar disability #discrimination in #HealthCare, a long-simmering lawsuit threatens to invalidate them altogether. #disabilities
States Decline To Drop Lawsuit Threatening Disability Rights Protections
As federal officials look to clarify recent rules designed to bar disability discrimination in health care, a long-simmering lawsuit threatens to invalidate them altogether.
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January 13, 2026 at 4:09 AM
As federal officials look to clarify recent rules designed to bar disability #discrimination in #HealthCare, a long-simmering lawsuit threatens to invalidate them altogether. #disabilities
The first generation of senior citizens living with IDD means added demand for #GroupHomes and other residential facilities as their families, who often care for them, also age. #disabilities #aging
As People With Disabilities Live Longer, Facilities Rework Services
The first generation of senior citizens living with IDD means added demand for group homes and other residential facilities as their families, who often care for them, also age.
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January 13, 2026 at 4:07 AM
The first generation of senior citizens living with IDD means added demand for #GroupHomes and other residential facilities as their families, who often care for them, also age. #disabilities #aging
Faced with the prospect of a new play area with equipment inaccessible to some classmates, a group of fourth-graders petitioned to block the design and then set out to create a worthy replacement. #disabilities #accessibility
New Inclusive Playground Opens Thanks To Special Efforts From Students
Faced with the prospect of a new play area with equipment inaccessible to some classmates, a group of fourth-graders petitioned to block the design and then set out to create a worthy replacement.
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January 13, 2026 at 4:07 AM
Faced with the prospect of a new play area with equipment inaccessible to some classmates, a group of fourth-graders petitioned to block the design and then set out to create a worthy replacement. #disabilities #accessibility
For the first time, a #Barbie doll with features designed to account for the ways in which individuals with #autism experience the world is hitting the market. #AutisticBarbie #disabilities
Barbie Debuts Doll With Autism
For the first time, a Barbie doll with features designed to account for the ways in which individuals with autism experience the world is hitting the market.
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January 12, 2026 at 5:28 AM
For the first time, a #Barbie doll with features designed to account for the ways in which individuals with #autism experience the world is hitting the market. #AutisticBarbie #disabilities
With a pair of new hires and recent comments, advocates say the Trump administration appears to be actively laying the groundwork to transfer #SpecialEducation out of the U.S. Department of Education. #disabilities
Ed Department Pushing Ahead With Plan To Offload Special Education
With a pair of new hires and recent comments, advocates say the Trump administration appears to be actively laying the groundwork to transfer special education out of the U.S. Department of Education.
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January 9, 2026 at 4:39 AM
With a pair of new hires and recent comments, advocates say the Trump administration appears to be actively laying the groundwork to transfer #SpecialEducation out of the U.S. Department of Education. #disabilities
The hands-free input system uses AI with communication entirely through facial gestures to help provide more independence for those with limited mobility. #disabilities
Professors And Students Create Software That Helps People With Disabilities
The hands-free input system uses AI with communication entirely through facial gestures to help provide more independence for those with limited mobility.
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January 9, 2026 at 4:39 AM
The hands-free input system uses AI with communication entirely through facial gestures to help provide more independence for those with limited mobility. #disabilities
#GroupHome executives in one state are making as much as $2.37 million while the direct support professionals who feed, bathe and spend time with residents with #disabilities earn just $21 an hour.
Are Group Home Executives Making Too Much?
Group home executives in one state are making as much as $2.37 million while the direct support professionals who feed, bathe and spend time with residents with disabilities earn just $21 an hour.
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January 8, 2026 at 3:42 AM
#GroupHome executives in one state are making as much as $2.37 million while the direct support professionals who feed, bathe and spend time with residents with #disabilities earn just $21 an hour.
One of the nation’s most well-known people with #autism is being honored alongside notables like famed director Steven Spielberg and JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon. #disabilities #Smithsonian #TempleGrandin
National Portrait Gallery Spotlights Temple Grandin
One of the nation's most well-known people with autism is being honored alongside notables like famed director Steven Spielberg and JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon.
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January 7, 2026 at 5:22 AM
One of the nation’s most well-known people with #autism is being honored alongside notables like famed director Steven Spielberg and JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon. #disabilities #Smithsonian #TempleGrandin
For the first time ever, a #wheelchair user traveled above the Kármán line, the internationally recognized boundary of space. #disabilities #BlueOrigin
In Historic Move, Wheelchair User Goes To Space
For the first time ever, a wheelchair user traveled above the Kármán line, the internationally recognized boundary of space.
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January 6, 2026 at 4:12 AM
For the first time ever, a #wheelchair user traveled above the Kármán line, the internationally recognized boundary of space. #disabilities #BlueOrigin
When Stacey Plantt filed a federal complaint against her son's #daycare claiming he was unjustly expelled, she wanted not only compensation for her family but also significant change. #disabilities
After Her Son With A Disability Was Expelled From Day Care, A Mom Pushed For Reform
When Stacey Plantt filed a federal complaint against her son's day care claiming he was unjustly expelled, she wanted not only compensation for her family but also significant change.
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January 6, 2026 at 4:11 AM
When Stacey Plantt filed a federal complaint against her son's #daycare claiming he was unjustly expelled, she wanted not only compensation for her family but also significant change. #disabilities
Stores are popping up in schools to teach students with #disabilities skills for daily living, work and social situations and to give general education students a leg up in college and the workforce. #SpecialEducation
Student-Run Cafes And Shops Give Teenagers Real-World Job Skills
Stores are popping up in schools to teach students with disabilities skills for daily living, work and social situations and to give general education students a leg up in college and the workforce.
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January 6, 2026 at 4:10 AM
Stores are popping up in schools to teach students with #disabilities skills for daily living, work and social situations and to give general education students a leg up in college and the workforce. #SpecialEducation
As federal officials begin to outline more stringent #Medicaid eligibility rules, worries are running high about what the changes will mean for people with #disabilities.
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 changes will mean for people with disabilities.
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January 5, 2026 at 3:54 AM
As federal officials begin to outline more stringent #Medicaid eligibility rules, worries are running high about what the changes will mean for people with #disabilities.
The #Trump administration is pushing back on a lawsuit seeking to ensure that sign language interpreters are included at #WhiteHouse events by suggesting that the accommodation is incompatible with the president's image. #disabilities #accessibility
White House Says ASL Interpreters 'Intrude' On Trump's Ability To Control His Image
The administration is pushing back on a lawsuit seeking to ensure that interpreters are included at White House events by suggesting that the accommodation is incompatible with the president's image.
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December 19, 2025 at 5:27 AM
The #Trump administration is pushing back on a lawsuit seeking to ensure that sign language interpreters are included at #WhiteHouse events by suggesting that the accommodation is incompatible with the president's image. #disabilities #accessibility