—Asthma is more common in children with some developmental disabilities, including ADHD and autism spectrum disorders. How should we use this information? Reviewed by Nicole Foubister, Clinical ...

The most recent issue of the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report analyzed the first data available on the functional types of disability in a state-based health survey and determined ...

Marker Learning gathered statistics from a report on the National Health Interview Survey on children with learning disability diagnoses, the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System for indicators ...

More than 1 in 7 American children have a mental, behavioral or developmental disorder, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but prevalence is far from steady across the ...

The prevalence of disabilities among American adults aged 65 and older is much lower than it was for the same age group a decade earlier, according to a nationally representative study published ...

Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are offering up a new estimate of the number of American children with intellectual disability. In a study looking at 8-year-olds in ...

The prevalence of children diagnosed with any developmental disability increased significantly in recent years, from 5.76% in 2014 to 6.99% in 2016, according to new data from the National Center for ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andrew Pulrang writes about disability practices, policy, and culture. For the last several years there is been a place online ...

The prevalence of American adults aged 65 and older without disabilities climbed from 2008 to 2017, according to a new report. In total, 61% of older Americans reported being free of disability in ...

A young child studies stacks of colored blocks. When an individual’s brain receives and processes information in an unconventional way, or in a way that makes learning new information or skills ...