The man has been in custody for more than a year. His mother said he has limited cognitive capacity and can’t care for himself.

A man convicted of murdering a brother and sister in Blount and Sevier counties in 1992 is awaiting a mental evaluation that ...

A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association revealed that people with cerebral palsy (CP), autism spectrum disorder (ASD), or intellectual disability (ID) had greater ...

Background Epilepsy affects 22.2% of people with intellectual disability compared with 1% of the general population. This study aims to identify characteristics associated with epilepsy-caused deaths ...

WASHINGTON – Disability rights groups fear a death penalty case before the Supreme Court could have implications for the intellectually disabled far beyond the criminal context. The justices are ...

Gaps in services and poor-quality care are causing adults with learning disabilities and epilepsy to die significantly younger from epilepsy related causes, than those who died from non-epilepsy ...

The case involves an Alabama man who challenged his death sentence after a murder conviction because of his varying results in a series of I.Q. tests. By Ann E. Marimow Reporting from Washington The ...

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 ...

Let’s break down three terms that show up a lot in special education: Cognitive Impairment, Intellectual Disability, and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). They’re not interchangeable, and only one of them ...