Parents with disabilities are people with certain disorders (mental, physical, or other types) who are raising young children or being cared for by their...

society. Disabilities may be cognitive, developmental, intellectual, mental, physical, sensory, or a combination of multiple factors. Disabilities can be...

Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a piece of American legislation that ensures students with a disability are provided with a Free Appropriate...

Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 or ADA (42 U.S.C. § 12101) is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability. It affords...

ensure that persons with disabilities enjoy full equality under the law. The Convention serves as a major catalyst in the global disability rights movement...

Learning Disability. This phenomenon is shared with mental health and motor disabilities, and seen to a lesser degree in sensory disabilities.[citation...

"Definitions of Learning Disabilities from Adults with Learning Disabilities: The Insiders' Perspectives". Learning Disability Quarterly. 16 (2): 114–125...

initiatives of parents of children with disabilities. These initiatives occurred throughout the US concurrent with the formation of activist parent groups in...

dystrophy), developmental disabilities (such as autism spectrum disorder, and intellectual disabilities) and other disabilities. Disabled students are likely...

million women in the world have disabilities, they often do not receive the same quality of healthcare. Women with disabilities are entitled to equal access...

This disability rights timeline lists events relating to the civil rights of people with disabilities in the United States of America, including court...

treat people with disabilities with deference, however when the disability constitutes a mental illness such an approach may be slanted with an acknowledgement...

safeguard so that parents with disabilities would no longer have their children taken away from them because of their disabilities. He also led the charge...

organization to fight discrimination against parents with disabilities. In addition to fighting for parents' rights in Colorado and nationally, she also...

that disability rights advocacy began to have a cross-disability focus. People with different kinds of disabilities (physical and mental disabilities, along...

classified as having milder disabilities, while 41% had more severe disabilities. Despite significant gains for people with disabilities in recent decades, there...

disabilities is a term for a person with a combination of disabilities, for instance, someone with both a sensory disability and a motor disability....

showed that ADHD parents are less lenient but more strict in their parenting styles. Parents of children with ADHD and other parents share a comparable...

July 1939) was a German child born with severe disabilities. After receiving a petition from the child's parents, the German Führer Adolf Hitler authorized...

worldwide proportion of people with developmental disabilities is believed to be approximately 1.4%. Such disabilities are twice as common in males as...

all eligible students with a disability. It also outlines specific strategies and supports to help students with disabilities succeed in both academic...

considered having a child with his wife but maintained that he still believed in genetic testing for prospective parents with disabilities. Brennan in the early...

people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The organization was founded in the 1950s by parents of people with developmental disabilities. Since...

the Education of All Handicapped Children Act (EAHCA). Parents of children with disabilities and other advocates hailed EAHCA as the "education civil...

1945, 45,000 people with intellectual disabilities died from neglect in French psychiatric asylums. After the Second World War, parents of disabled children...

with physical and mental disabilities. Public schools were required to evaluate children with disabilities and create an educational plan with parent...

visited the White House. Kennedy's parents told Woman's Day that she was "studying to be a kindergarten teacher," and Parents was told that while she had "an...

common form of employment provision for people with disabilities across Europe where their disabilities create barriers to accessing the open labour market...

individuals with disabilities and parents who have children with disabilities. Founded in 1979, DREDF advances the civil and human rights of people with disabilities...

individuals with "visual, hearing, speech or physical disabilities, mental retardation, mental disorder, multiple disabilities and/or other disabilities." The...