Wearing an oxygen pack on her back for her COPD, Marcia OBara is leading a group of nature enthusiasts on a mission to see birds. They carry walking sticks on the flat trails, ...

Birdability has helped compile a crowdsourced map of accessible birding locations nationwide in partnership with the National Audubon Society, and offers advice to able-bodied birders on how to be ...

Iowa patient advocates say that in the face of federal Medicaid cuts, the state is quietly reducing in-home services that ...

Words matter, especially when words are used as labels. Such is the case with the so-called “r-word” (retarded) to describe people with disabilities. For far too long, derogatory terms like the r-word ...

Reid's path to figure skating is unique. An amputee athlete who won three Paralympic medals in track and field, she was a ...

Continuing Education Credits: up to 11 hours, through American Psychological Association (APA), Pennsylvania State Board of Social Work (PA SBSW), or International Accreditors for Continuing Education ...

New research has revealed a confronting life-expectancy gap for people with intellectual disability in NSW, highlighting persistent and preventable inequities in health outcomes. The research, Life ...

Abstract: Intellectual disability disorder (IDD) is a kind of neurodevelopmental disorder that adversely affects an individual's quality of life. Discriminating normal brain patterns from abnormal ...

An Indiana House committee unanimously advanced a bill Wednesday tightening protections for defendants with intellectual disabilities in capital cases, while a Senate proposal allowing firing squad ...

(Indiana Capital Chronicle) - An Indiana House committee unanimously advanced a bill Wednesday tightening protections for defendants with intellectual disabilities in capital cases, while a Senate ...

A bill authored by Rep. Garrett Bascom, R-Lawrenceburg, (second from right) would establish new procedures to ensure defendants with intellectual disabilities are not sentenced to death. (Photo by ...