Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nancy Baker Curtis demonstrates using an adult-size changing table with son Charlie at a rest stop near Adair, Iowa. The table is ...

Nancy Baker Curtis demonstrates using an adult-size changing table with son Charlie at a rest stop near Adair, Iowa. The table is motorized so it can be lowered when a person needs to get on, then ...

When you’re out in the community enjoying events, shopping, or running errands, can you access public restrooms? If you can, good, but some adults with disabilities cannot because most public spaces ...

Kim Boulter has used bathroom floors, angled the back of her van away from onlookers in various parking lots and cleared off conference room tables in order to change her 9-year-old son. Aiden has ...

Chrissy Hood’s 21-year-old daughter Alaina, who has intellectual and developmental disabilities, outgrew a baby changing table a long time ago. Hood and her husband have resorted to changing her on ...

Alison Bynum lives in Smyrna, Tennessee with her husband, Brad, and daughters, Norah and Charlotte. She is a governor-appointed member of the Tennessee Council on Developmental Disabilities for the ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — For a long time, Beth Plautz said traveling with her son, Adam, was almost impossible to do comfortably, KCCI reports. “There’s no dignity for him,” she said. Twenty-seven-year-old ...

The blue-and-white highway sign for the eastbound rest stop near here displays more than the standard icon of a person in a wheelchair, indicating facilities are accessible to people who can’t walk.

This article was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. ADAIR, Iowa — The blue-and-white highway sign ...