EXPERIENCED. NEWS EIGHT’S ED WEINSTOCK WAS THERE. LORETTA CLAIBORNE HAS A LOT TO BE PROUD OF. DESPITE THE CHALLENGES OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES, SHE HAS ACCOMPLISHED A LOT IN HER LIFE. TODAY, SHE ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in a case that advocates say could have major implications for how intellectual disability is defined. The high court will consider Hamm v. Smith on ...

Advocates recommend having these conversations early. “I grew up watching kids and adults alike recoil from my brother simply because he looked a little different, and spoke a little differently from ...

Research finds health disparities among people with IDD. Racial and ethnic health disparities are a pervasive public health problem. Research finds similar health disparities among people with ...

Paul Aronsohn's ombudsman office became a national model and exposed problems with group homes, insurers and state agencies. The stakes were personal.

A new study reveals how a rare genetic mutation leads to intellectual disability. The P212L mutation in an enzyme called CaMKIIalpha, which is important for learning and memory, is known to be linked ...

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Intellectual or developmental disability, known as IDD, affects approximately 7.39 million people in the United States, according to a 2019 estimate by the University of Minnesota. Typically present ...

Disability can be difficult to talk about sensitively because of how embedded ableism is in our language, biases and perceptions of disability. Conversations about disability are slowly increasing, ...

While epilepsy affects one percent of the general population, this figure rises to 22.2% for people with learning disabilities. The researchers analysed nearly 10,000 deaths of adults with ...