Discover essential federal and state benefits for families with disabled children, including SSI, Medicaid, and TANF, to ...

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 ...

A. P. D. G. Everett is a graduate student in biomedical engineering at the University of Vermont. Social Security’s “disabled adult child” program has a simple rule: Someone who suffers a disability ...

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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 ...