Mentally ill hurricane evacuees were often discriminated against during relief efforts last year, to the point of being banished from shelters or institutionalized against their will, a government report says.
Children with disabilities are more likely to live with a single woman — whether she is a mother, grandmother or a female foster parent — than other children, according to a new study.
The Austrian Supreme Court has ordered a lower tribunal to consider whether a gynecologist accused of failing to give complete information about a high-risk pregnancy should pay child support after his patient gave birth to a disabled child.
Lee Jones' Down syndrome doesn't keep him from exercising — or from getting others to join in.
A bus monitor is accused of taking a leather belt to disabled passengers, claiming they were rowdy.
A state report on a Massachusetts school for the disabled said electric shocks were administered to students — sometimes as they bathed — for offenses as minor as nagging, swearing and sloppy appearance.
Authorities said a woman who claimed she was a paraplegic and repeatedly filed claims and lawsuits for noncompliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act was a con artist without any physical limitations.
After suffering paralysis, brain damage, lost limbs and other wounds in war, nearly 900 Army soldiers ran up $1.2 million in debt because of the military's "complex, cumbersome" pay system, congressional investigators said Thursday.
A city program meant to give extra help to 23,000 welfare recipients with physical or mental disabilities often became a logistical nightmare instead, a federal judge said.
A former high school basketball star who suffered a career-ending injury when fans tackled him at a championship game has settled lawsuits against the school district and two students for $3.5 million.
Soldiers returning from Iraq and other conflicts with missing limbs and shattered bodies will have a place of honor among the memorials of the nation's capital.