The nation’s pediatricians are getting new guidelines for how to go about evaluating children who present with global developmental delay or intellectual disability. Doctors should use genetic testing ...

What are intellectual and developmental disabilities? Intellectual disability is a disability characterized by significant limitations in both intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior, which ...

It all started with a manikin. When training her Yale School of Nursing (YSN) students in clinical skills, Christine Rodriguez will often use the human-shaped models in simulated health care ...

Margie Garcia, the mother of an 18-year-old with autism, desperately wants her son to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. But she fears that the sight of the syringe could trigger his anxiety, causing him ...

Mickey Wesley was 11 when he moved into the boys dormitory on the Hammer campus in 1978 in Wayzata. Born with autism and Down syndrome, young Mickey loved going to church, bowling and fishing, his ...

Aaron Bass likes some things about Shapiro Developmental Center, a home he shares with some 500 others on a site along the Kankakee River that first housed Illinois residents with disabilities nearly ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A new law aims to help the disabled or aging population get better access to assistance by merging the Tennessee’s Department of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities ...

Kim Bullock, MD, said she often hears directly from adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs) about their difficulties with obtaining preventive care. Physicians may neglect to ...

Rocco Friebel ([email protected]), London School of Economics and Political Science and Center for Global Development Europe, London, United Kingdom. Laia Maynou, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, ...

A key U.S. Senate panel rejected a Trump administration push to make major changes to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and defund some disability programs, but significant uncertainty ...