People with disabilities and their families have long relied on word-of-mouth to find disability-friendly community businesses, but that recommendation system has been given a new twist after a "hackathon" sponsored by AT&T in partnership with...

When it comes to special education, a common perception is that public schools are cheaper than private ones. With many specialized private schools for the disabled today charging tuition rates in excess of $80,000 per student, that may seem...

When Michael Hock was a special education teacher, he spent hours slicing quarter-inch slits in the center of index cards so that his students could use them to isolate individual words and sentences while taking standardized tests. When a new...

Efforts to establish federal limits on the use of restraint and seclusion in the nation's schools appear to be dead, at least for now, disability advocates are acknowledging. In a meeting last week, Senate staffers who worked on legislation...

In a decision that could cost school districts millions of dollars, the United States Supreme Court ruled on Monday that parents of special-education students may seek government reimbursement for private school tuition, even if they have never...

This is a question-and-answer with Dr. Donald Deshler, a keynote speaker at the Special Education Symposium in Des Moines. Deshler is a distinguished professor emeritus of special education and the former founder and director of the Center for...

Each person has a unique learning style that goes beyond a hands-on versus a classroom setting. Often times, individuals with uncommon methods of learning are considered less intelligent, but that simply isn’t the case. “All brains are good...

It’s not enough for schools to help students with learning differences or disabilities shore up their academic weaknesses. Students also need to learn how to communicate with others—particularly adults—about their unique needs, experts say....

Growing up, I had always wondered if I had received the correct autism diagnosis. I was diagnosed with autism and ADHD at age 3, and for the amount of “evidence-based therapy for autism” that has consumed my entire childhood, I should have been...

Students spend 12-18 years in the school system with one common goal—to become successful adults. The journey can be compared to a marathon, not a sprint. And for special education students, the marathon can feel like it is being run on Mt....