Experts say low conviction rates explain why disability abuse cases, including recent Delaware examples, often end with ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – A disability advocacy organization has sued the Ohio Department of Behavioral Health, accusing the agency of withholding records tied to alleged abuse and neglect at its ...

For the past five years, Nick Battiola called his Disability Rights Wisconsin victim advocate, Pam Malin, any time he felt on the verge of a breakdown, whenever memories of the caregiver who became ...

Victoria University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. The alarming rise in reports of domestic violence and intimate-partner homicides has led to increased media attention and ...

Earlier this year, NPR reported that people with intellectual disabilities are victims of some of the highest rates of sexual assault. NPR found previously undisclosed government numbers showing that ...

NEWTON, Kan. (KSNW) — Proposed federal budget cuts could hurt programs that protect the rights of people with disabilities and prevent abuse. Nancy Jensen remembers the years she spent at Kaufman ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study shows that women with a disability are far more likely to experience a physical assault by a spouse or other intimate partner than those without a disability.

Assisted suicide is a dangerous public policy that threatens the most vulnerable in society, including people like myself who live with a disability. I have the rare condition fibroidodysplasia ...

This article contains language and accounts of abuse directed at people with disabilities, which some will find offensive. Lindsay Knott was walking down the stairs into the concourse at half-time of ...

In recent years, California has been the nation’s leader in disability access lawsuits against businesses. A local news report in 2014 found that just 31 plaintiffs had been responsible for more than ...

Anne Kavanagh receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council, Australian Research Council, and the Commonwealth government. She is a non-executive director of the naugural ...