Persons with disabilities continue to face persistent barriers in daily life - limited access to education and employment, discrimination, and exclusion from decision-making. While progress has been ...

New Jersey tops the nation in isolating kids with disabilities in special classes and schools. Another state is trying ...

Investors fear they are missing tens of thousands of dollars and have accused a specialist disability accommodation company of making misleading claims. NDISP, which manages more than 140 ...

or 504 accommodations. The number refers to section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, a civil rights law making sure students with disabilities have help if they attend a school that receives ...

The demand for specialist disability accommodation (SDA) in Australia is increasing, driven by the needs of NDIS participants seeking appropriate housing. ONCALL is announcing its supported ...

More than 6,000 of the roughly 28,000 students at Queen’s last year (22 per cent) were approved for such accommodations by the disabilities office. Five years ago, it was about 2,250 students (9 ...

“Providing people with specialist disability accommodation supports improved health outcomes,” says Emeritus Professor Jacinta Douglas of La Trobe University. “We found that living in ...

Due to such variations, HR professionals must understand them to ensure efficient implementation of reasonable accommodations. In many instances, the employee with disability also qualifies for ...

can help make sure people with disabilities have access to quality employment. Plus, it doesn’t have to cost a lot! Fifty-six percent of accommodations require no cost at all. As the Job ...

After settling a lawsuit with three members of the Berkeley Commission on Disability, the city of Berkeley has agreed to put forth new policies regarding remote meeting attendance as a disability ...

D isability accommodations in American higher education are skyrocketing. In the past decade, the proportion of colleges with more than 10 percent of students registered as disabled has quintupled ...