What are intellectual and developmental disabilities? Intellectual disability is a disability characterized by significant limitations in both intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior, which ...
The federal legislation that authorizes and supports UCEDDs in every state, the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 2000 (DD Act), also establishes crucial statewide ...
The federal government spent $80.6 billion to support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in 2021 alone. A new report breaks down where it went. Researchers from the University of ...
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 ...
TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — A program on the Westside is helping adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities. Pathways for Life has been operating in Tucson for nearly two years now. Maureen ...
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 ...
ATLANTA — Lloyd Mills was tired of being stuck in a small, drab hospital room. On a rainy mid-September morning, a small TV attached to a mostly blank white wall played silently. There was nothing in ...
People with intellectual disabilities and developmental disorders are three times more likely to die of Covid-19, compared with patients without the conditions, a new analysis found. By Roni Caryn ...
STATEHOUSE. SEVERAL PEOPLE AT THAT RALLY SAY THOSE PROPOSED BUDGET CUTS COULD IMPACT SERVICES FOR PEOPLE WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES. AND TONIGHT THEY’RE MAKING THEIR VOICES HEARD. SAVE OUR ...
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 ...