A CQC inspection of Cumberland Council's adult social care services found people were waiting too long for assessments and ...

Cumberland Council has been rated as 'requires improvement' by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) under its duty to assess how well councils ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Findings from a Freedom of Information (FOI) request confirms ‘assessments’ for people claiming disability benefits in Scotland ...

Only a society that enables people to live and develop together, and that cultivates difference, reciprocity, and equal rights will raise people that do not need to learn to "behave correctly." In ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON – Disability rights groups fear a death penalty case before the Supreme Court could have implications for the ...

Surgical prehabilitation was associated with significantly lower rates of disability but no change in surgical complications among older patients with frailty. HealthDay News — Prehabilitation can ...

The students at America's elite universities are supposed to be the smartest, most promising young people in the country. And yet, shocking percentages of them are claiming academic accommodations ...

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The U.S. Social Security Administration has requested that the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine conduct a study to (1) provide an overview of ways to collect information about ...

Mainstream cognitive assessment tools are often insufficient for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD), creating a need for validated clinical tools that can help accurately ...

The Okotoks Public Library has launched new Literacy Launch Kits, a program designed to support adults looking to improve their English comprehension and writing skills. Library director Sarah Gillie ...

Arizona’s Medicaid agency is making changes to the state program that pays for care provided to children with disabilities after families expressed concern about a new assessment tool that went into ...