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Ben Botkin/Oregon Capital ChronicleDepartment of Human Services workers who care for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities say their workplaces are unsafe and that they’re burned out. -
Shelby Knowles/CalMattersA new state law aims to ensure workers with disabilities earn at least minimum wage. But some worry that the state doesn’t have enough resources to help these workers compete for jobs.
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Staffing shortages are among the challenges that have left students in special education physically at risk and academically unserved — even though they are among the student groups in greatest need after more than two school years of pandemic disruptions. -
The Klamath County Office of Developmental Disability Services will get another investigator to look into reports of abuse against intellectually or developmentally disabled residents.
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After a decade, landmark disability rights case Lane v. Brown closes. The case closed sheltered workshops and ensured Oregonians with disabilities would work in integrated workspaces and be compensated at the same rate as workers without disabilities.
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On some level, it made sense to get people out of mental health institutions and give them jobs. But the way it was done in Texas, it violated human…
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Even in an age of heated rhetoric, there are terms most people simply don't use anymore. But even the U.S. Supreme Court once subscribed to a scale of…
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Our society is, in theory, supposed to protect its most vulnerable members. But society failed The Boys in the Bunkhouse for years. The boys of the title…
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Oregonians who have worked in sheltered workshops will now be able to move into mainstream jobs. The settlement of a court case against the state under…
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We've traveled a long way from the time when people with developmental and intellectual disabilities spent their lives in "training schools" or other…
