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Indiana Moms Win Injunction Against Loss of Caregiver Pay
Plus: Children in mental health crisis wait days in emergency rooms, worsening their condition; New report shows family caregivers under increasing…
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Growing, growing, growing
Year Five, first quarter update
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The Hardest Jobs, the Most Hoops: How Medicaid Could Add Even More Complexity
Plus: Disabled kids are at higher risk of suicide but rarely get screened; and Trisomy 18 kids are living longer than previously thought possible…
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July 2025

Trump budget bill: Will all 630,000 disabled kids continue to get home services?
Plus: Staten Islanders remember an exceptional medical mama and sudden Michigan policy shift closes a respite home for families
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Parents Were The Best Caregivers. Idaho Fired Them Anyway.
Plus: Families await states reaction to "big, beautiful bill"; Alleged $100M theft of disabled kids' money hits a roadblock
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Maybe she's a doctor. Maybe it's medical motherhood.
Plus: National study declares crisis in family caregiving; A life-changing drug for Prader-Willi; Study shows health toll of raising disabled children
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Fear and Loathing in Disability Services
Plus: Medicaid fraud uncovered in nationwide sting
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June 2025

Disability Service Providers in State with Highest Need Fear Trump's Budget
Plus: “Love on the Spectrum” moms launch podcast; Pediatricians urged to pursue early genetic testing for I/DD kids
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Family Caregivers Shoulder Education and Medicaid System Failures
A new investigation from The Boston Globe finds uncounted kids denied their right to an education and debate rages over the Republican-led Medicaid…
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Supreme Court decision makes it easier to sue schools for disability discrimination
Plus: Could tariffs lead to rationing of medical items? And what makes families of disabled kids more likely to skip important health care appointments?
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Bureaucracy Never Gives a Road Map
Plus: The national push for Medicaid payments to 5.4 million family caregivers; and, Texas schools see sharp increases in special education students…
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Town Halls are where the action is at, apparently
Plus: Medicaid bill breakdown; DOJ may skip probe of teacher who dragged a nonverbal child down a hallway; Study says accommodations should probably be…
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