The Justice Department has reached a settlement with Blockbuster Inc. designed to ensure equal access at more than 3,000 Blockbuster retail stores for disabled customers who use service animals.

When I was in medical school at the University of Pennsylvania more than 20 years ago, our class volunteered to work at the Special Olympics Games in Philadelphia.

It may look like any leafy New England campus, but inside one Massachusetts school for special needs children, the method of teaching at work is anything but ordinary.

The U.S. Departments of Education and Justice on Tuesday released an open letter to colleges expressing concern that some institutions might be “using electronic book readers that are not accessible to students who are blind or have low vision” and warning them that the government will crack down on any institutions that are “requiring” disabled students to use emerging technology that does not comply with federal accessibility laws.

A beer delivery truck. A Comcast van. A Tufts University police SUV. A Verizon van. Even the Toyota Avalon of a Cambridge District Court judge who stopped to get a sandwich.

For years, a 33-year-old Lakewood man has had the door slammed in his face from potential employers. Living with cerebral palsy, it hasn’t been easy for him to get a job. But the training he received from Tacoma Goodwill has now earned him a job at Sea-Tac Airport – and lots of praise from the community.

The new playground at Manchester Township’s Cousler Park looks exactly the way 10-year-old Noah McClymont envisioned it.

U.S. researchers are calling for more environmental and social supports to help families caring for children with physical and mental challenges.

Places of worship need to truly value people with special needs, said Ginny Thornburgh, director of the interfaith initiative of the Washington-based American Association of People with Disabilities.

An advocacy group for the disabled called on Gov. Mike Beebe today to close the Booneville Human Development Center because of inadequate patient care, including the recent death of a resident who choked on a sandwich.