Center for Disabilities Studies

An interdisciplinary research project at the University of Delaware is piloting an interactive device that allows children with autism to modify music to suit their listening needs and preferences.

Mesa, Az., has worked to provide autism training programs to more than 500 city employees and nearly 4,000 community members, including visitor-facing staff at tourist destinations.

Heumann, a storied defender of disability rights, organized the 1977 San Francisco sit-in that helped force the implementation of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, a significant move toward the Americans with Disabilities Act. She served as an official in the Clinton administration and a special adviser in the Obama administration in addition to her non-profit works with institutions like the World Bank, the Ford Foundation and Human Rights Watch.

A Kansas House bill would expand state tax credits to employers paying subminimum wage to people with disabilities.

A new report from United Cerebral Palsy and the American Network of Community Options and Resources shows that across the US, the support system for people with disabilities is in crisis.