Federal officials say that a major university health care system will change its ways after denying a person with intellectual disability the opportunity to be placed on a transplant list. The U.S.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday grappled with where the line should be drawn on intellectual disability when the death penalty ...

William Skipworth’s three-part investigation in the New Hampshire Bulletin has laid bare the ongoing traumas experienced by ...

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 ...

A combination of missed prevention opportunities and health inequalities can result in the early deaths of people living with ...

FARGO — A psychiatrist on Friday, Feb. 1, added his voice to those of other experts who claim the man convicted in the 2003 kidnapping and killing of 22-year-old Dru Sjodin has an intellectual ...

Intellectual disability causes significant limitations to a person’s intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior. Intellectual disability is also sometimes known as cognitive disability. An ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro and his top human services official said Wednesday that the administration has a plan to end a waiting list of thousands of families who are considered to be in dire need of help for ...

The ECF Choices program aids people with intellectual or developmental disabilities. The program provides job coaching, life skills training and transportation. But about 5,000 Tennesseans are stuck ...

The Pennsylvania state Capitol in Harrisburg. More than 6,000 Pennsylvanians with intellectual disabilities or autism are on an “emergency” state waiting list: meaning they need services and supports ...

Momentum is building in Topeka to solve the crisis that has more than 4,300 people’s lives on hold waiting for assistance. Justin Paget Getty Images I spent eight ...