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 ...

Imagine the world in 2030, fully inclusive of persons with disabilities! During the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20, Member States agreed to launch a process to ...

Dr. Yolangel Hernandez Suarez was not able to see her son for months after the pandemic began. A 28-year-old man who is on the autism spectrum, her son lives in a group home. Until recently, visits to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . 22% of patients with inpatient care for more than a year had an IDD. Long-stay patients with IDD had more ...

People with disabilities may be particularly vulnerable to crimes involving interpersonal violence, such as physical or sexual assault, because as a population—regardless of age or gender—they are ...

Co-authored by Asia Eaton, Ph.D. and Kate L. Long, ABD, OTR/L “We don’t have any people like that in the United States, do we?” This comment from someone I (Kate) truly respected really stunned me. As ...

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 ...

Each March, Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month encourages people across the country to pause and acknowledge the leadership, contributions, and lived experiences of people with disabilities.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A new program is in place to help people with intellectual and developmental disabilities prevent certain crisis situations, and stay safe – as well as receive the proper ...