Already facing nearly $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts, disability advocates are now worried that new efforts to crack down on fraud and trim state budgets will erode access to community-based services.
There seems to be a wide gap between how we talk about “The Disability Community,” and the number of disabled people who actually feel like a part of it. Most disabled people want to connect with a ...
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For those unable to attend the Fairfax Area Disability Service Board’s monthly meetings, June will be an opportunity to voice concerns in person to board members regarding community disability ...
Roughly one in four adults in the U.S. lives with some type of disability, yet many remain underrepresented in the workforce.
The first time Tammy Carrillo enrolled at East Los Angeles College (ELAC), she didn’t know she had a learning disability. She also hadn’t thought of herself as college material. At her continuation ...
Zary Amirhosseini came to the U.S. in 1979 when she was a child. Born in Iran with severe scoliosis, her family couldn’t find a specialist to perform the surgery she needed. “A lot of people with ...