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Feds Crack Down On Airline Mistreatment Of Passengers With Disabilities. Federal officials are imposing a record-setting $50 million penalty on the nation's largest airline for disability rights violations, a sum 25 times higher than any previous fine for similar issues. October 24, 2024.
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Nov 5, 2024 · Feds Crack Down On Airline Mistreatment Of Passengers With Disabilities. Federal officials are imposing a record-setting $50 million penalty on the nation's largest airline for disability rights violations, a sum 25 times higher than any previous fine for similar issues. October 24, 2024. Load More Stories.
Civil Rights Commission To Examine Special Ed Teacher Shortages
3 days ago · An independent federal agency is set to investigate how teacher shortages are impacting the growing number of students with disabilities across the nation. The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights will hold a briefing Friday where it will hear from government officials, current and former educators, researchers and others who’ve been impacted.
Supreme Court Ruling May Upend Disability Rights Protections, …
Jul 8, 2024 · Countless federal regulations ensuring the rights of people with disabilities to everything from health care to community living could face legal challenges after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a 40-year-old precedent. In a ruling issued late last month, the high court said that courts should no longer defer to the interpretation of federal ...
Standards Established To Improve Health Care For Kids With …
May 9, 2024 · A first-of-its-kind consensus statement is outlining new standards for providing health care to youth with autism, intellectual disability and other neurodevelopmental disabilities in an effort to overcome persistent inequities in care.. Developed by a panel of health care experts, adults with disabilities and caregivers, the plan published recently in …
Global Movement Aims To Improve Lives Of People With Disabilities
Aug 23, 2021 · The effort known as WeThe15 — named to honor the estimated 15% of the world’s population living with disabilities — plans to work with governments, businesses and the public to increase disability visibility and acceptance. The launch of the initiative is timed to coincide with the start of the Paralympic Games Tuesday in Tokyo.
Congress Weighs Strengthening Health Care Protections For …
Feb 12, 2024 · “QALYs aggregate quality and quantity of life simply by lowering the value of a year of treatment by the degree to which an illness, disability, or other health condition is perceived to harm the person’s quality of life during that year,” according to a 2019 National Council on Disability report, which found evidence that QALYs could be used to discriminate against people with ...
DSP Wages Up, But Disability Providers Still Struggling To …
Nov 4, 2024 · Across the nation, hourly wages for direct support professionals averaged $15.79 in 2022, exceeding $15 per hour for the first time ever. Despite the increase, however, the turnover rate in the field remained over 40%, leaving many service providers struggling to maintain enough staff to support people with developmental disabilities living in ...
Caregiving Pressures Mount For Families Of Those With IDD
Jan 22, 2024 · Caregivers are more likely to report that they quit their jobs to support a family member with developmental disabilities than they were just a few years ago. And, a majority indicated that they are paying more out-of-pocket for services. Of those surveyed, 70% said the person with developmental disabilities that they support lives with them ...
Supreme Court Decision Weakens Disability Rights, Advocates Say
May 9, 2022 · A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision chips away at disability rights, advocates say, by making it harder to bring claims under some of the nation’s anti-discrimination laws. The high court ruled late last month 6-3 against Jane Cummings, who is deaf and legally blind, determining that emotional distress from discrimination is insufficient ...