A 2015 Department of Justice report, based on data from 2009 to 2015, showed that people with disabilities were 2.5 times more likely to be victims of violence than those without disabilities.

Plus, the money needs to be managed to last throughout the life of the person with disabilities. "We may need these funds to last 30 or 40 years," Williams says.

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So, what is the right way to ask a person with disability if they would like help? Disability is about the environment, not a diagnosis More than 1.3 billion people globally live with disability.

"People with disabilities have got so much to offer. If you give them a task or you give them a job, they're very committed, and they can do it, and they'll do it well," she said.

Alice Dunn and Charlie Sobelman joined more than 300 kids across the continent in competing to create an invention to improve the lives of people with disabilities.

We spoke to young people with intellectual disability. They had the same goals for life after high school as most people their age. But they felt ‘stuck’.

The government will draw up a new action plan to combat discrimination and prejudice against people with disabilities, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Monday at the first meeting of a new ...

Service and support administrators help people with disabilities access resources they might need. "Actions like this make a huge difference in someone's life," said Ryan Braun, the agency's ...