DEAR ABBY: I have a 54-year-old profoundly disabled, nonverbal child who is in a group home. I have been advocating for her since birth, when we learned she had suffered severe brain damage. The ...

Evergreen Life Services urgently seeks foster parents in Tennessee to provide essential stability and inclusion for children ...

Mothering does not end when our kids are 18 or 21. Mothering adult children is hard, and very few parenting books focus on this very long period in the parent-child relationship. Mothering adult ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - Adult-sized changing tables could soon be installed in public buildings throughout Alabama. Lawmakers are considering a bill requiring people with disabilities to have a ...

Stacy Staggs's 11-year-old daughter will never eat or breathe on her own. Five times a day, Staggs or a nurse feeds her daughter, Emma Staggs, doctor-prescribed formula through a feeding tube at home.

As potential Medicaid cuts loom over millions of Americans, parents of children with severe disabilities are trying to grapple with what life might look like without the health care program. “If we ...

For years, Dan Collins looked after his mother Ros as she got older. But the tables turned two years ago when he acquired a permanent brain injury, forcing his mum — now 95 years of age — to become ...