Disability rights advocates have warned that a Supreme Court case involving death row inmates could have serious consequences ...

What are intellectual and developmental disabilities? Intellectual disability is a disability characterized by significant limitations in both intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior, which ...

U.S. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito appeared inclined to side with the state of Alabama during ...

Is an intellectual disability a condition, or a number on an IQ test? Here's why an Alabama death penalty case at the Supreme ...

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday, December 10, heard oral argument in Hamm vs. Smith, a capital case that could reshape how courts evaluate intellectual disability under Atkins v. Virginia and its ...

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 ...

Gracious Grounds has begun construction of Ability Way, an $18.5 million, 77-unit independent living community for adults ...

Reginald Jackson has been ruled intellectually disabled and therefore ineligible for the death penalty, upholding a ...

Minister of Social Development and Seniors Tinee Furbert provided an overview of the Government’s five-year National Plan for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities. Speaking in the House of Assembly ...

When Daniel Castellanos was a young child, a psychiatrist predicted that he would “likely never learn to talk, let alone read and write”. Two decades later, Daniel received the Pennsylvania Restaurant ...

Intellectual disability is a disorder marked by below-average intellectual function and a lack of skills necessary for independent daily living. The condition begins in the developmental period. The ...

More Minnesotans with developmental and intellectual disabilities are aging and need more involved care, leaving more to soon ...