It’s extremely embarrassing that we still allow our disabled children to be spanked, hit and paddled at school. No child should have to deal with that, but it’s truly terrible that we can’t even agree ...

For parents of disabled children, figuring out how to navigate services and support can be difficult. The book "Everything No One Tells You About Parenting a Disabled Child" is a roadmap offering ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Christine Michel Carter covers working mothers, diversity, and jobs. One in five American children has special health care needs, ...

In the United States, approximately 7.3 million children between the ages of three and seventeen have been diagnosed with a disability; this equates to a staggering one in ten children. The likelihood ...

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The Owens adopted two children with special needs since their son's death. Dec. 24, 2012— -- Last Christmas, newly adopted Angela Owens sat motionless in her toddler-sized wheelchair, unable to ...

MUMBAI: Bombay high court has observed that there is nothing wrong if parents of two disabled children want to adopt a third, normal child, and directed the authorities to consider a Mumbai couple's ...

59 disabled Haitian children, many of them in wheelchairs, wait patiently outside of their orphanage on a March evening in silence. They wait for a bus that will take them to a boat that will then ...

Three families have sued Tennessee and its Department of Children's Services (DCS), alleging unconstitutional mistreatment and "barbaric violence" faced by young people with disabilities in juvenile ...