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Jun. 28AMMAN A dialogue session was held at the auditorium of Hussein Technical University within the activities of the 'EDMAJ' project, funded by the US Embassy in Amman. The project [...]

Byline: Joe Lawlor May 31Rachel Williams said her daughter Caitlin is thriving in a residential program for children and young adults with intellectual disabilities at the Morrison Center in Scarborough. [...]

Byline: Stephanie Farr and video Lauren Schneiderman May 4Meet Elaine Scott and Colleen Brennan, co-owners of Kati Mac Floral Designs, a nonprofit flower shop in West Chester. Their mission is [...]

Byline: Aubrey Whelan PHILADELPHIA When Natasha Black learned that she was eligible to get a COVID-19 vaccine, she said she was excited and hopeful that daily life might finally get [...]

Byline: Aubrey Whelan Apr. 28When Natasha Black learned that she was eligible to get a COVID-19 vaccine, she said she was excited and hopeful that daily life might finally get [...]

Byline: Caitlin Andrews Dec. 14-- Dec. 14--AUGUSTA, Maine -- Maine is again trying to reduce waitlists for services to people with intellectual disabilities or autism that have grown to some [...]

Byline: Caitlin Andrews Jan. 28-- Jan. 28--AUGUSTA, Maine -- Clearing waitlists for adults with developmental disabilities seeking services in Maine could cost up to $80 million a year, but doing [...]

Byline: Caitlin Andrews Jan. 28-- Jan. 28--AUGUSTA, Maine -- Clearing waitlists for adults with developmental disabilities seeking services in Maine could cost up to $80 million a year, but doing [...]

Byline: Abigail Curtis Oct. 28-- Oct. 28--BELFAST, Maine -- When Patricia Saucier was a teenager, she felt as if her life story would be defined by what she could not [...]

Byline: Abigail Curtis Oct. 28-- Oct. 28--BELFAST, Maine -- When Patricia Saucier was a teenager, she felt as if her life story would be defined by what she could not [...]

Byline: Abraham Gutman Nov. 20The U.S. Department of Justice sued Pennsylvania for allegedly violating the Fair Housing Act by requiring automatic sprinkles in community homes for people with intellectual disabilities [...]

Byline: Harold Brubaker Mar. 27Two major Philadelphia-area providers of services to people with intellectual disabilities, Merakey and Elwyn, said Monday that they are exploring a merger that would create a [...]

Byline: Caitlin Andrews Oct. 15Maine is expected to lose 10 percent of the workers providing care to people with intellectual disabilities when Gov. Janet Mills' COVID-19 vaccine mandate takes effect [...]

Mar. 30Special Olympics Indiana raised nearly $10,000 this weekend at its Polar Plunge event at the Starlite Drive-In in Bloomington. The funds will help people with intellectual disabilities and their [...]

Byline: Kelley Bouchard Dec. 16-- Dec. 16--SOUTH PORTLAND -- Southern Maine Community College will soon offer vital skills training to young people with intellectual disabilities under a new partnership formed [...]

Byline: Harold Brubaker Dec. 12-- Dec. 12--For decades, Pennsylvania has been following a national trend by closing its state-run institutions where an ever-smaller number people with intellectual disabilities spend their [...]

Byline: Ed Lewis Aug. 20-- Aug. 20--KINGSTON -- An employee at a residential group home for people with intellectual disabilities was charged Monday with molesting a resident in July. Police [...]

Byline: Corlyn Voorhees July 31--Maine has likely lost two-thirds of its capacity to safely house people with intellectual disabilities who are experiencing crises that put them and the people they [...]

July 01--When it comes to helping people with disabilities in Maine, the state has long been leaving them behind. More than 4,000 people with intellectual disabilities in the state of [...]

Byline: Keith Lawrence Nov. 25--Engineering students at Owensboro Innovation Academy recently created 3-D wooden puzzles for the clients at Puzzle Pieces, an organization that serves people with intellectual disabilities. And [...]

Nov. 13--Mamma Maria's in East Grand Forks has partnered with the Arc Angel Project, a project that provides gifts for people with intellectual disabilities who have no family connections and [...]

Byline: Teresa Stepzinski July 15--GREEN COVE SPRINGS -- The beginnings were humble. Just Nancy Keating and three people with intellectual disabilities in an old van delivering JC Penney catalogs door-to-door [...]

Byline: Keith Lawrence Oct. 16--Add another downtown festival to Owensboro's entertainment mix. Puzzle Pieces, an activity day center for people with intellectual disabilities, is joining with Reid's Orchard and radio [...]

Byline: David Wahlberg July 24--Lisa Pugh, public policy director for Disability Rights Wisconsin, was named in May to the President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities. The new version of [...]

Byline: Ed Stannard May 24--HAMDEN -- Seven years ago, few of these young people with intellectual disabilities, including Down syndrome and autism, would have had the confidence to get onto [...]

Byline: Leslie Bridgers July 19--SCARBOROUGH -- A new $6.2 million facility for people with intellectual disabilities is going up on Gorham Road. Casa Inc. is breaking ground on the new [...]

Byline: Ellie Bogue July 26--Saturday morning will mark the fifth year for the Easter Seals Arc Special Olympics ballroom dance competition. The first year, 2007, 20 people with intellectual disabilities [...]

Byline: Ellie Bogue July 26--Saturday morning will mark the fifth year for the Easter Seals Arc Special Olympics Ballroom Dance Competition. The first year, 2007, 20 people with intellectual disabilities [...]

Byline: Jackie Farwell April 21--AUGUSTA, Maine -- A state advocate is warning that overspending by the Department of Health and Human Services is leaving people with intellectual disabilities no place [...]

Byline: Miriam Hill March 21--More crime committed by addicts. More people with intellectual disabilities and mental illnesses in institutions. Higher unemployment costs as nonprofits that serve needy populations lay off [...]

Byline: M.J. Ellington March 23--MONTGOMERY -- Advocates for people with intellectual disabilities rallied at the Statehouse on Tuesday and urged lawmakers to allow the state's only residential facility for them [...]

Byline: Cynthia McCormick Aug. 12--People with intellectual disabilities were always first pick on the team of Eunice Kennedy Shriver. Shriver founded the Special Olympics in 1968 to create an arena [...]

Byline: Cassie Shaner Jul. 6--A WVU faculty member is one of 13 people selected nationwide by President George W. Bush to join the President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities. [...]

Byline: Karrey Britt Aug. 8--Kansas University's Beach Center on Disability received a major research award for its work to improve life for people with intellectual disabilities and their families. The [...]

MONCTON, NEW BRUNSWICK, Nov 26, 2012 (Marketwire via COMTEX) -- The Government of Canada is helping people with intellectual disabilities in the Moncton area gain the skills they need to [...]

SHANGHAI, Oct 4, 2007 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Leaders from all sectors called on unprecedented attention on the attitudes and needs of people with intellectual disabilities at the Special Olympics [...]

Byline: Joe Lawlor Jan. 13Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau is lobbying for an upcoming bill that would boost the pay of direct care health workers and make a number of [...]

Byline: Ian Round Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown's job is about to get complicated. After two years in office in which his power has grown and violent crime has declined [...]

Byline: Harold Brubaker Dec. 10Inperium Inc., a fast-growing Reading nonprofit, has moved closer to completing its acquisition of Philadelphia's Resources for Human Development, a prominent health and human services nonprofit [...]

Byline: Cathy Dyson Nov. 1On an unseasonably warm day in October, people gathered under a white tent outside the Massad branch of the Rappahannock Area YMCA to dedicate a bigger-than-life [...]

ADDIS ABABA, January 13, 2025 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- China and Ethiopia celebrated the 55th anniversary of their diplomatic relations on Sunday in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. The [...]

Byline: Kimberly Drelich Oct. 17--State Rep. Christine Conley, D-Groton, who is seeking her fifth term representing the 40th House District is being challenged by Groton Representative Town Meeting member Susan [...]

Byline: Bill O Boyle Sep. 23--SCRANTON -- Gov. Josh Shapiro and members of the Shapiro Administration on Sunday welcomed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a visit to the Scranton Army [...]

Byline: Claire Bessette Jul. 13--NORWICH -- A window air conditioner spotted by a city fire marshal June 28 in an unpermitted apartment in the new Water Street Lofts continued a [...]

Byline: Joe Lawlor Jun. 18Emily Curry worked for 28 years providing care to people who needed it. She said she would still be in the field now working jobs like [...]

Byline: Joe Lawlor Jun. 18Emily Curry worked for 28 years providing care to people who need it. She said she would still be in the same industry now working jobs [...]

Byline: Gary Miles Apr. 2Donald N. Bersoff, 85, of Philadelphia, law school professor emeritus at Villanova and Drexel Universities, groundbreaking lawyer and psychologist, author, consultant, mentor, volunteer, and veteran, died [...]

Byline: Kimberly Drelich Mar. 11--LEARN's annual disABILITY Summit is an opportunity for families and individuals with disabilities to find connection and resources all in one place, according to LEARN Deputy [...]

Byline: Kathryn McNutt Three factors significantly impact access to health care for older Oklahomans: affordability, availability of nursing facilities and an insufficient health care workforce, according to a new report [...]

Byline: Jenny Deam Dec. 4The state of Colorado late last week pushed back against the federal government, disputing the allegations by the U.S. Department of Justice that the state discriminates [...]