A registered nurse, Dina Lester left her job working for the state in part over concerns about its poor level of care (Anna Spoerre/Missouri Independent). This story was commissioned by the River City ...

CANTON ‒ Alive Now Services — a home personal care business for clients with developmental disabilties — is dead. In November, the Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilties revoked Alive Now's ...

The inner rewards are rich for Rosalind Wakefield, who works as a direct support professional at Little City in Palatine, assisting people living with intellectual and developmental disabilities. But ...

This story was commissioned by the River City Journalism Fund. After Ronald Scheer was found suffocated to death by the straps of his own wheelchair, an autopsy determined his cause of death was ...

44-year-old Antonio Boone says the help he received from the Cuyahoga County Board of Developmental Disabilities forensic unit helped to make his journey through the court system easier - and ...

NEWS. THE LATEST NUMBERS FROM THE CDC FINDS AUTISM AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES ARE ON THE RISE. A DOCTOR WHO SPECIALIZES IN THIS FIELD SAYS THOSE PATIENTS FACE A SERIOUS GAP IN HEALTH CARE SERVICES ...

From 2017 through 2023, roughly 2,680 people with developmental disabilities died under the care of the state of Missouri — on average, one person every day. This story was commissioned by the River ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - A developmentally disabled woman whose throat was slit while living at a local care facility is back in the news. Her father is now taking the facility to federal court. Local 12 ...

OUR NEXT HELPER GIVES PEOPLE LIVING WITH DISABILITIES THE HELP THEY NEED TO LIVE INDEPENDENT, FULFILLED LIVES. SINCE I’VE BEEN HERE, I DIDN’T NEVER KNOW I COULD DO ALL THE THINGS I COULD ACCOMPLISH.

A developmentally disabled man has been reported missing in the San Fernando Valley and family members are concerned since he has been without his medication since disappearing five days earlier.