• What's behind the shortage of workers who support people with disabilities

    What's behind the shortage of workers who support people with disabilities

    Dec 20, 2023 11:25 PM EST

    ... the rates up to make it more competitive. Judy Woodruff: Louisiana Republican State Senator Franklin Foil has family members with disabilities, including a son with autism and a sister with Down syndrome. From Louisiana's capital, Baton Rouge, Foil has pushed to increase the state's Medicaid rates and for ...

  • Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on why he thinks he has a chance as an independent candidate

    Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on why he thinks he has a chance as an independent candidate

    Nov 07, 2023 11:34 PM EST

    ... You are wrong. And you're making something up. Amna Nawaz: On FOX News, you said that you still believe in this idea that vaccines can cause autism, which has long been debunked. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: But now you're changing the subject. What you said was a lie.

  • Advocates concerned about workers with disabilities earning below minimum wage

    Advocates concerned about workers with disabilities earning below minimum wage

    Oct 05, 2023 10:35 PM EST

    ... Subminimum Wages: The issue around increasing wages for people with disabilities is really just a human rights issue. Judy Woodruff: Jillian Nelson was diagnosed with autism when she was 21. Today, she co-chairs Minnesota's Task Force on Eliminating Subminimum Wages, a group that has called for a slow ...

  • FDA plans to regulate thousands of lab tests that have long skirted oversight

    FDA plans to regulate thousands of lab tests that have long skirted oversight

    Sep 29, 2023 10:03 PM EST

    ... per week from hospitals and clinics. Others advertise directly to consumers — including some claiming to measure the risk of developing ailments like Alzheimer’s and autism. Laboratory-developed tests have long skirted FDA oversight, though the agency has always maintained that it has the authority to step in. Debate over ...

  • How an elite music school is increasing access for students with disabilities

    How an elite music school is increasing access for students with disabilities

    Sep 06, 2023 10:15 PM EST

    ... Rhoda Bernard: Absolutely, and creating that environment and then providing them with what they need and watching them flourish. Jeffrey Brown: Ashton Kiprotich, diagnosed with autism when he was nearly 2 years old, didn't speak until he was 7. He still has difficulty processing thoughts into speech. But, here ...

  • Debunking some of RFK Jr.’s contradictory statements

    Debunking some of RFK Jr.’s contradictory statements

    Jul 31, 2023 11:59 PM EST

    ... no vaccine that is safe and effective” and told FOX News that he still believes in the long-ago debunked idea that vaccines can cause autism. In a 2021 podcast he urged people to “resist” CDC guidelines on when kids should get vaccines. “I see somebody on a hiking trail ...

  • RFK Jr. appears before Congress as his comments spreading misinformation draw scrutiny

    RFK Jr. appears before Congress as his comments spreading misinformation draw scrutiny

    Jul 20, 2023 10:40 PM EST

    ... some debunked, questioning what causes HIV, alleging that a pesticide makes people transgender and, as on the Joe Rogan podcast, baselessly suggesting that vaccines cause autism.   Robert F. Kennedy Jr.:  And everybody will say, oh, there's no study that shows autism and vaccines are connected. That's just ...

  • Rescued Ukrainian children settle back into life at home after abduction by Russian forces

    Rescued Ukrainian children settle back into life at home after abduction by Russian forces

    Jul 07, 2023 10:40 PM EST

    Another boy, Sasha, is rushed into a quiet car. He has autism and is nonverbal. After six months away from his family, he is struggling with physical touch and night terrors, his mother tells us. Almost all men are not permitted to leave the country because of the war effort ...

  • After school hacks, ransomware criminals expose kids' private files online

    After school hacks, ransomware criminals expose kids' private files online

    Jul 05, 2023 03:21 PM EST

    ... attempted suicide and been in and out of the psychiatric hospital a dozen times in a year. The mother of a 16-year-old with autism recently got a letter from the San Diego Unified School District saying her daughter’s medical records may have been leaked online in an ...

  • News Wrap: Pittsburgh synagogue shooter convicted of killing 11

    News Wrap: Pittsburgh synagogue shooter convicted of killing 11

    Jun 16, 2023 10:50 PM EST

    ... might have been avoided.    Amna Nawaz:  Daniel Ellsberg was 92 years old.   And Donald Triplett, the first person to ever be diagnosed with autism, has died. He passed away at his home in Forest, Mississippi after an extended illness. Triplett was profiled in the book "In a Different ...