Disability

Peoria will be the latest city to join Valley Metro’s RideChoice program, which offers on-demand rideshare and other vehicle services to certain senior citizens and people with disabilities.

A dispute between an Arizona Medicaid insurer and a large autism therapy provider could leave hundreds of patients searching for new places to receive care next year.

Caregivers with Arizona Autism say they were blindsided when the company announced it was laying off nearly 2,800 employees at the end of the year. Few details have emerged on the company’s plans to transition impacted staff to contract workers — and how that will impact services for Arizonans with developmental disabilities.

Arizona Autism, a company that offers pediatric therapy and caregiving services to Arizonans with developmental disabilities, announced a nearly 2,800 employee layoff.

Tiffani Jaseph, a Special Education teacher at the K-5 Copper View Elementary School in the Sahuarita Unified School District, just won 2026 Arizona Teacher of the Year. She joined The Show.

After a bad show in Phoenix, Todd Snider wrote “Can’t Complain” and began opening almost all his shows with it. The song holds a special place for The Show’s Sam Dingman.

The number of family caregivers in Arizona is on the rise. Roughly one in five adults in the state are caregivers. And they are largely unpaid and unsupported.

A Republican lawmaker who helped preserve a program for Arizona children with disabilities earlier this year says she is encouraged by changes the state is making to a new tool that threatened to cut back on those services.

Arizona’s Medicaid agency is making changes to the state program that pays for care provided to children with disabilities after families expressed concern about a new assessment tool that went into effect earlier this month.

The Trump Administration on Friday announced another round of layoffs — it appears to have essentially gutted the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, or OSERS, within the U.S. Department of Education.