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Opinion: Self-Direction Regulations Can Hamstring Otherwise Great Program

By Roberta Bernstein, Founder/Editor, The Boost My niece, Molly (not her real name) is a vibrant, highly verbal (just try to interrupt her), active 31-year-old who craves agency over the decisions that affect her. Like all of us, she wants to choose how she lives her life. Molly also has intellectual and developmental disabilities and, […]

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Isolation & Neglect: Disability Advocates Fear Return to a Bleak Past Under HHS (74 Million)

Commentary: For independent living centers, Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP is about care, not money (Times Union)

Families say new CDPAP payment system is a ‘mess’ (WHEC)

NYC commits $167 million to shore up early childhood ed system (Chalkbeat)

OPWDD Issues Awards to Eight Assistive Technology Providers to Deliver Home Enabling Supports Statewide (OPWDD)

Former Eastchester convent now open for people with autism (Yahoo News via LoHud)

A perspective of New York from the eyes of a disabled person (Finger Lake Times)

Intellectually disabled teen shot by Idaho police dies after being removed from life support (AP)

Mass. Higher ed board approves new guidelines for students with disabilities (CommonWealth Beacon)

US autism rate continues to rise, CDC says, pointing to greater awareness and better screening (CNN)

RFK Jr. calls rising autism rate an ‘epidemic.’ (Stat News)

RFK Jr. said autistic people don’t work or play sports (Washington Post)

Kennedy pledges to figure out which ‘environmental toxins’ are causing autism (Politico)

What New Research Reveals about Autism, Stimming, and Touch (Univ. of Rochester)

Have We Been Thinking About A.D.H.D. All Wrong? (New York Times)

Maryland nightclub for people with disabilities celebrates 10 years (WBAL TV)