Iowa patient advocates say that in the face of federal Medicaid cuts, the state is quietly reducing in-home services that help people avoid being institutionalized. National groups are bracing for ...

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 ...

The life expectancy of people with intellectual disability in NSW is 16 years shorter than the NSW average, according to new Australian research. The study looked at over 100,000 people with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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