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.

EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Not everyone is able to use the bathroom on their own. It’s a reality caretakers and those with disabilities face across the country and here in Rhode Island. Cathy ...

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 ...

Heather and Joel Buyer walk up to the newly renovated Fayette County rest area. Many of Ohio's rest stops will have universal changing tables that can benefit families like the Buyers in Washington ...

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 ...

ADAIR — 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 ...