TULSA, Okla. — People on a decade-long waitlist for developmental disability services are finally coming off that list. It's all in an effort by the state to end the waitlist, but families coming off ...
What are intellectual and developmental disabilities? Intellectual disability is a disability characterized by significant limitations in both intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior, which ...
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 ...
Shortage of workers in mental health and disability fields at area agencies reflected statewide. Exacerbated by the pandemic, and years of fewer hires, developmental disability services across the ...
Children were more likely to be diagnosed with developmental disabilities during the Covid-19 pandemic than they were in the year before, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease ...
SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – After checking in on more than 4,400 New Mexicans within the state’s developmental disabilities healthcare system, state officials say they’ve found 68 sites with “possible ...
Although the home environment is known to influence behavior problems in children with developmental disabilities (DD), the precise contributions of specific domains remained unquantified, hindering ...
With the White House set to change hands, nearly 200 advocacy groups are calling on the Food and Drug Administration to finalize a ban on the use of devices that administer electric shocks to address ...
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, ...
Three years after a federal judge found Illinois had failed to meet the standards of a consent decree mandating sufficient services to residents with intellectual and developmental disabilities, Gov.
March is Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month—a time to reflect on how we can better support individuals with disabilities and ensure they have equal access to opportunities. For refugees, ...