Julie Gunter was trying to get appropriate services from the Seattle School District for her daughter, a student with disabilities, but hit a major snag: past records of how other school districts ...

Efforts to gut the U.S. Department of Education's special education office and move the program to another agency are already ...

filed to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights. Disability Rights Washington, Self Advocates in Leadership and the Arc of the United States jointly filed the ...

Washington state lawmakers are once again debating a bill that would further restrict the use of restraint and isolation in schools—an issue that has sparked passionate responses from educators, ...

One in five people reading this has a disability. Some try to avoid that label at all costs; for others, it provides a right to participation in the community and success at school and in the ...

The Center for American Progress recently hosted a summit with more than 50 advocates from the reproductive and disability ...

WASHINGTON — It was obvious to Christine Smith Olsey that her son was not doing well at school, despite educators telling her to leave it to the experts. The second-grade student stumbled over words, ...

After I was born, my father and mother had to make a difficult decision about where I would grow up. I was born in 1979 with a rare form of cerebral palsy that affected my nervous system, left me ...