From 2017 through 2023, roughly 2,680 people with developmental disabilities died under the care of the state of Missouri — on average, one person every day. This story was commissioned by the River ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The New Hampshire Commission For Human Rights will host a series of meetings to evaluate New Hampshire’s intellectual and ...

Sen. David Rochefort said he and his colleagues are “still working out the finer details” of the bill. (Photo by William Skipworth/New Hampshire Bulletin) State Sen. David Rochefort, a Littleton ...

A video recorded at a Dunbarton care home for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in February 2019 captured caretakers pinning Lucas Houle to the ground and slapping him repeatedly ...

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This story was originally produced by the New Hampshire Bulletin, an independent local newsroom that allows NHPR and other outlets to republish its reporting. State Sen. David Rochefort, a Littleton ...

After Ronald Scheer was found suffocated to death by the straps of his own wheelchair, an autopsy determined his cause of death was “hanging.” Scheer, a man with developmental disabilities and ...

Several women are suing a plastic surgeon after they claim they have been deformed following cosmetic plastic surgery that went wrong. In the wake of more than a dozen tornadoes touching down in ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A Portland man has been arrested for the alleged sexual abuse of a girl with a developmental disability over a seven-year period, starting when the child was 11 years old, Portland ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — A caretaker employed by the Northwest Ohio Developmental Center (NODC) was indicted on two felony counts related to an alleged incident of abuse. According to Lucas County court ...

Since 1987, March has been designated Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month in the US. This month recognizes individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and the barriers ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...