Intellectual disability is a disorder marked by below-average intellectual function and a lack of skills necessary for independent daily living. The condition begins in the developmental period. The ...

Autistic individuals often rely on Medicaid for insurance, but the transition to adulthood can, and often does, impact their enrollment status. In continuing to examine how autistic individuals use ...

People with intellectual disabilities, such as those with Down syndrome or fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, have historically had shorter life expectancies than the general population, but data from a ...

One of society’s greatest medical challenges is to understand and develop effective treatments for disorders of intellectual disability (ID). Around 2–3 percent of the global population meet the ...

Fifteen women with developmental and intellectual disabilities were given the chance to shine Tuesday night in the biannual ...

The R-word has been considered taboo for several years, as a slur against people with intellectual and developmental ...

Not-for-profit Project Independence uses residents' disability support pension to share in a property, giving them legal ...

The major challenges faced by persons with intellectual disability generally is the problem of stereotyping. Disability Stereotyping bears when the society make assumptions, often times wrongly, about ...

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania will not share disability data with the federal government under an executive order signed ...

Shawn Fraraccio, 26, was moved to a living facility in Mexia on April 14 after a demand for this transfer from his mother and ...