The blue-and-white highway sign for the eastbound rest stop near here displays more than the standard icon of a person in a wheelchair, indicating facilities are accessible to people who can’t walk.

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To have a great life, all people should be able to enjoy access to their community and all that it offers. The Americans with Disabilities Act provided many new protections and accommodations that ...

Nancy Baker Curtis demonstrates using an adult-size changing table with son Charlie at a rest stop near Adair, Iowa. The table is motorized so it can be lowered when a person needs to get on, then ...

Chrissy Hood’s 21-year-old daughter Alaina, who has intellectual and developmental disabilities, outgrew a baby changing table a long time ago. Hood and her husband have resorted to changing her on ...

Alison Bynum lives in Smyrna, Tennessee with her husband, Brad, and daughters, Norah and Charlotte. She is a governor-appointed member of the Tennessee Council on Developmental Disabilities for the ...

Phillip C. Garner, M.A. CESP, is the executive director of Buffalo River Services Inc., an agency based in Waynesboro, Tennessee, that provides home and community-based services for people with ...

ADAIR — The blue-and-white highway sign for the eastbound rest stop near here displays more than the standard icon of a person in a wheelchair, indicating facilities are accessible to people who can’t ...

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Within the next few months, a public restroom will be the first spot in Clarksville to feature a new tool aimed at helping adults with disabilities. An adult-size changing ...

EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Not everyone is able to use the bathroom on their own. It’s a reality caretakers and those with disabilities face across the country and here in Rhode Island. Cathy ...