Since 1987, March has been designated Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month in the US. This month recognizes individuals ...

For years, researchers believed that when people with intellectual disabilities age, they experience an early decline in cognitive functioning. But a groundbreaking study by Hefziba Lifshitz of ...

Services for Students with Disabilities, the University office that promotes accessibility and educational development, met ...

The SYNGAP1 gene, which supports the production of a protein called SynGAP (Synaptic Ras GTPase-Activating Protein), is known ...

Better pay for professionals in supported living will stop the high turnover and ensure more clients get meaningful, ...

Medically reviewed by Smita Patel, DO Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a rare neurological condition that causes severe muscle weakness and intellectual disability. DMD is an inherited (passed ...

Momentum is building in Topeka to solve the crisis that has more than 4,300 people’s lives on hold waiting for assistance. Justin Paget Getty Images I spent eight years on the Kansas ...

Details of Waldon's intellectual disability were presented by his defense ... He said no. “So, for example, you are unaware of any potential steps that the defendant took to avoid apprehension?” ...

When the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was established in 2013, one of its driving aims was to make disability ...

Political anxiety has become a dominant theme in our culture. We present some of the prominent features and suggestions about ...

There are eight core domains of QoL aligned with both the United Nations and the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IASSIDD). The ...