Fifty years ago, just after Thanksgiving of 1975, President Gerald Ford signed the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, the landmark law that created special education as it exists today, and ...

Released in both English in French, book aims to debunk myths surrounding learning disabilities such as dyslexia and ...

Lord Paul Scriven, a Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords, has spent years championing the rights of learning ...

This week is Scottish Learning Disability Week, a time to celebrate people with learning disabilities. It’s about making ...

Corrected: A previous version of this story misstated Devin Kearn’s university affiliation. A recent change to the definition of dyslexia put forth by an international group of researchers and ...

Fifty years ago, Congress dramatically expanded schools’ responsibilities when it passed the nation’s primary special education law, requiring children with disabilities to receive a “free appropriate ...

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When U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon claimed in USA TODAY that the recent government shutdown showed “how little the Department of Education will be missed,” she overlooked the damage done to ...

The students at America's elite universities are supposed to be the smartest, most promising young people in the country. And yet, shocking percentages of them are claiming academic accommodations ...

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