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

Roughly one in four adults in the U.S. lives with some type of disability, yet many remain underrepresented in the workforce.

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 ...

House in Bow on Stack Drive that now offers intensive treatment services for people with development disabilities Credit: SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN / Monitor Sign up for the Concord Monitor’s morning ...

The number of children with developmental disabilities is on the rise with new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showing that nearly 1 in 11 kids are diagnosed with autism, ...

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 ...

Patricia Mouthon adores her 12-year-old son. “He is lovely and cute and amazing and I love him,” said Mouthon, a Virginia Beach resident. But that doesn’t mean taking care of him every day is easy.

Henrietta, N.Y. — Plans are moving forward to bring a new center for those with intellectual and developmental disabilities ...

Adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities reported more anxiety and depression, more treatment use and greater ...

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, ...

61 million adult Americans live with some sort of disability. 61 million adult Americans live with some sort of physical, sensory, or intellectual disability. When parents receive the news—prenatally ...