Disability in Texas

May 16, 2025

State parks add track wheelchairs to ‘help people explore things they’ve never explored before’

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April 28, 2025

Meet the Texan trying to make emergency response accessible for all

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April 15, 2025

This new Dallas theater has a ‘Big Heart.’ And all its stars are adults with disabilities

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March 20, 2025

Morgan’s Studio provides a platform for San Antonio’s disability community to share its stories

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Austin Lighthouse for the Blind employees make belts for all five military branches in the South Austin facility on Nov. 22, 2024.
March 11, 2025

‘My blindness doesn’t really make me stand out. It just makes me another person on the team.’

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A close-up of a wheelchair, with "airport use only" in red letters on the back
February 24, 2025

American, Southwest among airlines challenging Biden-era accessibility rules

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February 24, 2025

Challenge to a major disability law on hold

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January 13, 2025

Advocates for Texans with disabilities seek changes in education and attendant care

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August 30, 2024

Morgan’s Hotel to offer unprecedented accessibility in San Antonio

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July 17, 2024

‘We all need a hero’: Meet the mom-and-son duo championing disability representation

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June 26, 2024

Texas doesn’t fund special education enough — and it’s hurting districts’ pockets

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A man wearing sunglasses poses for a selfie with his mother.
April 18, 2024

For disabled guests, the Texas Eclipse Festival was a weekend of broken promises

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April 11, 2024

‘No plan B’: Texas runner heads to Boston for his final marathon

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March 29, 2024

Making life-or-death decisions for $10.60 an hour: Texas group homes suffer from staffing crisis

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Four women seated on stage speak during a panel. The South By Southwest 2023 logo is displayed behind them.
March 13, 2024

A surprising trend at South by Southwest: Accessibility

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A portrait photo of Dennis Borel.
February 23, 2024

Dennis Borel looks back on 24 years advocating for Texans with disabilities

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A man stands at a shopping cart full of boxes in a Sam's Club warehouse as a woman places another box into the cart
January 29, 2024

For Texas’ program of blind merchants, the pandemic shrank opportunities, exposed income gaps

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Listen: Voting accessibility, education and transportation through the lens of disability
January 24, 2024

Listen: Voting accessibility, education and transportation through the lens of disability

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Dozens of squares of various sizes come together to make the shape of the state of Texas. In several of the boxes are disability access symbols, including symbols for low vision access, sign language interpretation, hearing loss access, braille, wheelchair accessibility, volume control telephone, intellectual disability, autism, and universal access. Text in the top right corner of the image reads "The State of Disability in Texas," and the Texas Standard logo sits in the bottom right corner.
September 1, 2023

The State of Disability in Texas

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An older woman sorts through several cloth face masks hanging from hooks on a wall in a home. The woman is reflected in a mirror also on the wall. This is Alice Barton.
November 14, 2023

‘People aren’t thinking about us’: How new ban on COVID-19 vaccine mandates impacts medically-vulnerable Texans

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An indoor wall with lettering that says "the National Institutes of Health" and describes the agency's purpose "dedicated to fostering discovery at the frontiers of science and medicine."
October 11, 2023

NIH to officially designate people with disabilities as a health disparity population

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The book cover of "Country of the Blind" is seen. It's a white cover with the title and author name in the middle. Illustrations of individuals using walking sticks, wheelchairs, seeing-eye dogs, and black glasses intersperse in the background engaged in various activities – walking, rollerblading and conversing with each other.
September 29, 2023

An immigrant to ‘The Country of the Blind’

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A man wearing a suit and tie holds up a microphone as he speaks. This is Austin ISD interim superintendent Matias Segura.
September 11, 2023

Austin ISD may still face conservatorship under the state’s alternative special ed plan

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September 1, 2023

‘We’re slowly getting there’: The legal landscape around disability rights in Texas

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September 1, 2023

Audio description for dance brings movement, emotion to visually impaired audiences

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September 1, 2023

‘We can still do great things that other people can do,’ says young novelist

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September 1, 2023

Baylor program breaks new ground in autism treatment by focusing on sibling relationships

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September 1, 2023

Lack of transportation options limits opportunities for people with disabilities

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September 1, 2023

‘Often the disabilities are invisible’ for long COVID patients experiencing a range of symptoms

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