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What the 2026 Medicaid Cuts Mean for Families with Disabilities
...on Medicaid for personal care, home health, or disability waiver services, you've probably been watching...watching the news with a knot in your stomach. The policy changes set in motion over the past year are...receive. The July 2026 wave The first meaningful implementation date is July 2026. Starting then, states may...
News > Education
Three School Employees Were Arrested for Abusing Children with Disabilities in a Special Education Classroom. Here's What Families Need to Know.
On April 14, Franklin City Police arrested three staff members at S.P....Saunders were named in the initial police report. A third staff member faces...an investigation into alleged IEP implementation failures and retaliation at the same...staff aren't properly trained in disability rights and restraint protocols. What...
Financial > Financial Planning
Long-Term Care Insurance and Disability: Planning for Future Care Costs
...Here's what long-term care insurance covers, why it usually doesn't fit disability care planning, and what tools deserve your attention first. What Long-Term...trigger. Coverage typically ranges from $100 to $400 per day, depending on the policy and your location. Policies may have a waiting period (elimination period)...
Career > Finding Jobs
Networking Events for Professionals with Disabilities: Finding Accessible Opportunities
...gap between stated policy and actual practice...registration fee. Disability-focused professional...can't: a room where disability is understood as...an asterisk. Why Disability-Focused Networking...obstacle course. Disability-focused professional...rarely match. Major Disability Career Conferences...Conferences and Events. Disability:IN Global Conference...
Career > Discrimination
Class Action Disability Discrimination: When Systemic Bias Affects Multiple Employees
...what happened to one person. They don't fix the policy that affected a dozen others. That's where class...share at least one question of law or fact. In disability discrimination cases, this might be a company...discrimination cases, this might be a company policy denying work-from-home accommodations across multiple...
Career > Discrimination
Disparate Impact and Disability: When Neutral Policies Discriminate
...attendance policy doesn't mention...doesn't mention disability. The physical...when a neutral policy is blocking...a workplace policy that applies...disabilities. The policy doesn't single...doesn't mention disability at all. But...practice or policy Statistical...evidence that the policy disproportionately...disabilities The policy isn't job-related...to prove the policy is essential...
Career > Advancement
Succession Planning and Disability: Positioning Yourself as Next in Line
...conversation happens without you in the room, and disability is the reason no one will say out loud. Succession...projects go to someone else. None of this is written policy. That's the problem. When criteria are informal,...criteria are informal, they can't be challenged. Disability becomes a quiet disqualifier that...
News > Advocacy
Pennsylvania Just Signed Three Executive Orders to Protect Disability Families. Here's What It Means and What Other States Can Do.
...collect and share disability data, create a new...requests for autism and disability data from states,...refusal through state policy. What Changed. The...different aspects of disability rights and services...nondiscrimination policy and places new limits...places new limits on disability data collection....database using state disability records. Executive...
Financial > Financial Planning
Families Provide $1 Trillion in Unpaid Care Each Year. Here's What Medicaid Cuts Mean for That Burden.
...caregiver for a child or adult with a disability, you already know what $1 trillion...caregiving. What the Numbers Mean for Disability Families. AARP's "Valuing the Invaluable...exceeds total Medicaid spending. For disability families, this isn't an abstract...families, this isn't an abstract policy data point but the cost of care you're...
Global Insights > Healthcare
Medicaid for Working Families: Katie Beckett Waivers, Dual Coverage, and Options You Didn't Know Existed
...institution to receive coverage at home, regardless of parent income. The policy is still in place. It's called the Katie Beckett waiver in most states,...Medicaid for the Medically Needy. Here's how it works: if your child has a disability or chronic condition that would require institutional care without home-based...
Global Insights > Education
What U.S. Parents Can Learn from How Other Countries Educate Students with Disabilities
...do. Understanding how other countries structure disability education reveals which parts of the U.S. system...education reveals which parts of the U.S. system are policy choices, not inevitabilities. How Nordic Countries...baseline is different. Every teacher completes disability pedagogy training as part of core certification....
Global Insights > Culture
Person-First or Identity-First? What Parents Should Know About Language in the Disability Community
...with a learning disability. The logic is...comes first, the disability second. Then you..."person with a disability" entirely. You're...it wrong. The disability community itself...educational, and policy settings. Person-first...emphasized that disability is one part of...a friend. The disability doesn't erase...It's baked into disability rights law, including...