Disability advocates are speaking out as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to take on a case that hinges on whether a diagnosis of intellectual disability should be based on more than an IQ score. The ...

Children with intellectual disabilities face greater mental health difficulties when they are from a disadvantaged background ...

Months after the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that advocates said could have major implications for intellectual disability and how it is defined, the justices said never mind. The ...

Proposed changes to the federal government’s health survey would undercount Americans with disabilities, advocates say.

It is the simplest password in the world.However, my 10-year-old son cannot press these.I sit him in front of the tablet and guide his finger to teach him. But he cannot remember. It is not that he ...

A Dutch team used group model building to map 48 interconnected factors that shape whether people with intellectual ...

The “autism epidemic,” which has seen a huge rise in the number of people diagnosed with autism in the last 20 years, is a result of the doctors widening the definition of the disorder, while the ...

Emotional well-being is important for physical and mental health, but few tools exist to specifically measure it in adults and children with intellectual disabilities. (shutterstock) Researchers in ...

People with intellectual disabilities, such as those with Down syndrome or fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, have historically had shorter life expectancies than the general population, but data from a ...

Correspondence to Dr Leanne Hassett, Sydney Musculoskeletal Health, The University of Sydney Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney, New South Wales NSW 2050, Australia; ...