Bulletin’s Skipworth wins Collier Spotlight award for investigation of NH disability care system

The Bulletin’s William Skipworth has won a Collier Spotlight award for his three-part report on abuse and neglect in New ...
inews.co.uk on MSNOpinion

My daughter has a disability – the lack of empathy in Britain is mind-blowing

In the year since Holly's diagnosis, we have experienced incredible kindness, frustrating delays and awful indifference ...
Knewz on MSN

Supreme Court justices seem to back execution of man with intellectual disabilities

U.S. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito appeared inclined to side with the state of Alabama during ...
Reuters

US Supreme Court wrestles with death row inmate's intellectual disability ruling

WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court grappled on Wednesday with a bid by Alabama officials to pursue the execution of an inmate convicted of a 1997 murder who a lower court found to ...
The Hill

Supreme Court mulls intellectual disability limits in death penalty cases

The Supreme Court on Wednesday grappled with where the line should be drawn on intellectual disability when the death penalty is on the table in a case that could make it harder for convicted killers ...
The New York Times

Supreme Court Grapples With Death Penalty Case on Intellectual Disability

The case involves an Alabama man who challenged his death sentence after a murder conviction because of his varying results in a series of I.Q. tests. By Ann E. Marimow Reporting from Washington The ...
Star Tribune

Opinion | America is abandoning people with disabilities

For half a century, the U.S. has been achieving one of the most important civil rights victories most Americans have never heard of: closing the large institutions that once warehoused people with ...
Disability Scoop

Supreme Court To Hear Case On Intellectual Disability

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in a case that advocates say could have major implications for how intellectual disability is defined. The high court will consider Hamm v. Smith on ...
Mother Jones

Alabama Wants to Lower the Bar for Executing Disabled People—if SCOTUS Lets It

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Hamm v. Smith, a death ...
KidsHealth

Words to Know (Special Health Care Needs Glossary)

achievement/ability discrepancy: a way to see if a child is performing at their best or if something like a learning disability is holding them back. acquired brain injury (ABI): an injury to the ...
Disability Scoop

Supreme Court To Weigh How Intellectual Disability Is Defined

Disability advocates are speaking out as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to take on a case that hinges on whether a diagnosis of intellectual disability should be based on more than an IQ score. The ...
KQED

Following Medicaid Cuts, Californians With Intellectual, Developmental Disabilities Face Uncertain Future

A fall-themed Snoopy jazz playlist hums throughout the art studio, rising just above the soft scratching of brushes on canvas. One person uses purple paint to carefully outline Squidward, his fourth ...