MORE ON: Disability Rights

Wherever the developmentally disabled live, abuse is their neighbor. It comes as deliberate assault by caregivers and sometimes relatives. It comes as acts of frustration, when people exhausted from the relentless difficulties of caring for patients with intellectual disabilities shove and hit... + read more

Days before Pablo Lopez learned that his son, a 14-year-old special education student in the Fresno Unified School District, would be recommended for expulsion, Superintendent Michael Hanson asked for a “father-to-father” meeting. As they sat in Hanson’s white pickup truck,... + read more

The curb access initially was left out of the plans – an omission that raised eyebrows among disability rights advocates and BART riders when California Watch first reported it last month. Officials pledged to fix the situation within six months. But construction crews moved... + read more

Bay Area Rapid Transit officials spent $2 million on a new ramp leading to the Lafayette station but didn’t include provisions for wheelchairs to get from the parking lot to the access ramp. That’s not the only issue that might draw the ire of disabled-rights advocates. The... + read more

A group of scholars, experts and concerned parents concluded that it can be ethically acceptable to give gravely disabled children medical treatments that will stunt their growth. The meeting convened last month was meant to host civil discussion over an issue that has drawn fiery debate since... + read more