Many of the people who rely on Medicaid for the equipment are profoundly disabled, with conditions like cerebral palsy or paralysis from accidents.

Standing up for the civil rights of the profoundly disabled (a brain-injured woman's right to nutrition and hydration) is hardly exploitative.

In fact Esha is having hippotherapy, a little known treatment for profoundly disabled children which appears to be having some stunning results.

Josephina and Juan Garcia say that taking care of profoundly disabled children is the source of their happiness.

The operation left Keith profoundly disabled, he's deaf, he walks with difficulty and suffers double vision.

They set about their experimental musical work with the children there, many of them profoundly disabled, in 1959-60.

The mother of a profoundly disabled child has written to David Cameron, pleading for his help.

'Helen Parfitt was profoundly disabled and received day care for several years,' a spokesman said.

Withing hours I witness some awful abuse taking place involving the deputy manager, a junior play worker and a profoundly disabled child.

The ruling affects "50 profoundly disabled and fragile individuals whose rights under the Federal Constitution have been gravely imperiled," the judge wrote.