By five months of life, babies can raise their heads when in a supine position on the floor. This common and expected progression in controlling th...

The over-representation of minority students in special education continues to be a persistent and challenging issue in education. This is a compli...

This book introduces several programs and guidelines that would help to provide housing, employment, and other services to adults with psychiatric ...

For Americans with disabilities, no less than for all other citizens, the opportunity to earn a living and be self-supporting is a universally held...

This book brings together a number of important issues within the area of mental health and deafness. The book is aimed at mental health profession...

This book brings together a number of important issues within the area of mental health and deafness. The book is aimed at mental health profession...

Since pain management became a speciality in its own right and following the tremendous breakthroughs made by several pioneer researchers, we have ...

Despite a dark history marked by the eugenics movement, increasing numbers of people with disabilities are choosing to become parents. Recent resea...

Studies show that up to 85 percent of youth in juvenile detention facilities have disabilities that make them eligible for special education servic...

The Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program, enacted in 1974, is a needs-based program that provides cash benefits designed to ensure a minimum ...

Title I of the Ticket to Work Program, administered by the Social Security Administration, is a program to enhance work incentives for Social Secur...

Voting is fundamental to our democracy and federal law generally requires polling places to be accessible to all eligible voters, including those w...

Youth with disabilities who are also in the foster care system are one of the most vulnerable populations in the United States, yet little attentio...