Agency for Persons with Disabilities

Abbas Karimi took silver in the Paris Paralympics this year.

The chance that Florida legislators this year will redesign the Medicaid program for people with developmental disabilities is dwindling.While the House…

Disability rights advocates say a plan to revamp administration of a key program is now moving in the right direction. Florida Republican Sen. Aaron Bean…

The program supporting thousands of Floridians with developmental and intellectual disabilities is likely in for an overhaul this year. Advocates had been…

In the upcoming months state lawmakers will grapple with a decision: how to stabilize the budget of one of its healthcare agencies. The agency for persons…

Barbara Palmer will remain on as head of the Agency for Persons with Disabilities, Governor-elect Ron DeSantis said Friday. He also named Seminole County…

The Florida Cabinet commemorated Disability Employment Awareness Month at its Tuesday meeting. During the meeting, Rachel Caylor Long spoke about the…

Two local businesses received an award Wednesday for employing people with disabilities. Since its 2014 grand opening, Panama City’s Planet Fitness has…

A new Florida task force met for the first time this week to start looking into transportation issues people with developmental and intellectual…

During Tuesday’s Developmental Disabilities Awareness Day, Florida’s House Majority Leader made a personal case as to why he believes the state’s business…