Temple’s TechOWL at the Institute on Disabilities hosts a two-week residential program assisting and encouraging young adults using communication for nonspeakers.

While people with autism or intellectual disability face the same risk of contracting COVID-19 as the general public, they are more likely to die from it.

The cardboard adaptations are affordable for families and ensure the children can participate and thrive at home and elsewhere.

For people with intellectual or developmental disabilities, navigating the criminal-justice system is difficult. That is where the Criminal Justice Project in the Institute on Disabilities at Temple comes in: The project helps individuals with disabilities, their families and others understand the justice system.

Since last spring, Temple's Institute on Disabilities has been awarded six new grants totaling $1.1 million, including $75,000 from Pew Center for Arts & Heritage to produce a play featuring people with intellectual disabilities as part of the cast.