Nassau BOCES and EPIC Long Island launch training for direct support professionals helping individuals with developmental disabilities ...

Many intellectually disabled people work in fast food, and retail chains such as Walgreens, Best Buy and Safeway that have stepped up to hire them. Another hurdle is that about 30 percent of ...

Another hurdle is that about 30 percent of intellectually disabled people who work do so in sheltered workshops, where they perform basic tasks but are segregated from nondisabled workers.

Laid-off federal workers with disabilities worry about the future Some also worry that disabled federal workers may have been disproportionately hurt by the terminations.

The new law lowers the legal threshold required for intellectually disabled defendants and means judges could decide the issue before a case ever goes to trial.