disabilities

RideKC Navigator gives people location-specific audio instructions to help navigate bus stops and intersections in Kansas City.

The Kansas City Area Transit Authority is launching a new app for visually-impaired and blind commuters, and the United States Postal Service's 'Operation Santa' goes virtual this year.

Some voting rights advocates say St. Louis-area election authorities aren’t doing enough to accommodate absentee voters with physical disabilities.

Taussig's memoir delivers poignant and entertaining personal stories that examine "life in this body of mine."

Wesley Hamilton won viewers' hearts when he appeared on the Netflix series Queer Eye. Now he's speaking out on behalf of Jacob Blake, who — like Hamilton — suffered a spinal cord injury caused by gunfire.

To fix the state's coronavirus-related budget issues, Gov. Laura Kelly stripped a $9 million increase for organizations that help people with intellectual and physical disabilities. She's also targeting millions from a juvenile justice program.

From after-school programs to adult education, parents in Kansas and Missouri are doing one of two things: fight to keep programs open or create resources to solve their own problems.

Rebekah Taussig has made a habit of challenging pop culture depictions of disabilities.

The new mayor of Ferguson, Missouri, says she'll take an active role in community dialogue and reform, Kansas City receives a $50.8 million federal grant to help expand streetcar service south, and Rebekah Taussig's memoir examines disabilities in pop culture and her experience living in a wheelchair.

The COVID-19 crisis has forced all students to learn from home, but for students with disabilities, not having their individualized learning in class is having a greater impact.

Congresswoman Sharice Davids calls for quicker small business relief, the new Johnson County health director touts the importance of COVID-19 testing, children with intellectual and development disabilities are missing vital services at home, and a group sewing masks for health care workers.

It was just past breakfast time at the faux nursing-home cafeteria on the Neosho County Community College Ottawa campus, and I was about to find out what…