In a portable classroom on the Santa Clara Adult Education campus, Abraham Leza prepares to teach his weekly class just after the Friday lunch hour. He pulls on a black T-shirt embossed with a drawing ...

Happy Place Cooking Space in Cedarburg teaches cooking skills to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), partnering with Balance Inc. to promote independent living.

Improving education for students with disabilities benefits everyone in a school, said Debra McAdams, the director of ...

This bakery’s sweet success has led to hands-on job training, growing independence — and now a place at a 30th annual benefit ...

Discover essential federal and state benefits for families with disabled children, including SSI, Medicaid, and TANF, to ...

Sixteen adults with intellectual disabilities spent a day in early November learning to cook lasagna at Maggiano’s Little Italy in Annapolis Mall, an exercise meant to build independence by practicing ...

A new Char‑Em ISD and NCMC partnership is helping young adults with disabilities gain life and work skills through hands-on ...

“If everybody had an ocean/Across the USA/Then everybody’d be surfin’/Like Californ-i-a.” The effervescent surf rock of the Beach Boys’ “Surfin’ USA” splashed out of the PA at the Sussex County ...

School districts prepare students for post-grad life, but skills and potential are lost as Chicago families try to figure out the next steps on their own. Seven months after he graduated from an ...

When Debra McAdams stepped into her role leading special education for Nashville schools in 2009, she knew she would immediately face a deeply entrenched system that separated students with ...