Staff Blog
Read the latest blog posts from Disability Rights Texas staff.
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May 17, 2023
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, a great time to remind ourselves about what we can do to advance awareness and acceptance of people with mental health conditions. People with …
April 26, 2023
People with disabilities experience sexual assault at alarmingly high rates – much higher than people without disabilities. Consider these statistics: 90% of people with intellectual or developmental disabilities (I/DD) will …
April 13, 2023
Did you know that there are different ways to refer to different people with disabilities? While there are different opinions within the disability community about how to talk about people …
April 4, 2023
With the recent news about the Texas Education Agency (TEA) placing Austin ISD (AISD) under conservatorship due to their ongoing noncompliance with special education law, we have received many questions …
March 31, 2023
Update: The 2023 Disaster Resilience Survey of Texans with Disabilities is now closed. If you live in Texas, you know that a disaster can strike at any moment – it’s …
February 24, 2023
Through detailed accounts from individuals, a new qualitative study from the University of Texas at El Paso highlights some of the unique challenges Texans with disabilities faced when Winter Storm …
December 21, 2022
Starting Thursday and continuing through Sunday, most parts of the state will be impacted by extremely cold winter weather. Temperatures will dip well below freezing and in many places the …
December 19, 2022
At the Abilities Expo, Disability Rights Texas (DRTx) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency Region 6 Office of Disability Integration and Coordination (FEMA ODIC) collaborated to educate people with disabilities …
November 17, 2022
(Text contained in the image below is included after the image.) With your support this year, we helped tens of thousands of Texans with disabilities know their rights, stay in …
October 27, 2022
October is National Youth Justice Action Month, a great time to raise awareness about the challenges justice-involved youth face and the importance of educational advocacy. This is also a great …