Many families are worried about cuts in the budget that will end programs that help everyone from preschoolers to adults with special needs. “It makes me sad,” Anita Kitchen said. Kitchen is a retired ...
The federal government spent $80.6 billion to support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in 2021 alone. A new report breaks down where it went. Researchers from the University of ...
In the latest National Autism Indicators Report, researchers from Drexel University’s A.J. Drexel Autism Institute examined surveys of family members of autistic adults who use Developmental ...
The Montgomery County Board of Developmental Disabilities has announced that they are cutting $8.9 million worth of programs and services. These cuts will impact thousands of people in Montgomery ...
Exacerbated by the pandemic, and years of fewer hires, developmental disability services across the nation are facing a labor shortage of crisis magnitude, health professionals say. The lack of direct ...
Disability advocates and residents urged the Maryland Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday to advance legislation designed to ...
TULSA, Okla. — People on a decade-long waitlist for developmental disability services are finally coming off that list. It's all in an effort by the state to end the waitlist, but families coming off ...
Eastern Shore lawmakers and advocates rallied Saturday in Salisbury to ask state leaders to restore funding for Maryland’s Developmental Disabilities Administration – and to rethink how services are ...
The hearing on $150 million in proposed cuts to the Developmental Disabilities Administration was mostly dry, until ...