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

Discover how Dr. Chen Shiling, a Singaporean of the Year finalist, provides dignified healthcare to individuals with ...

"Even when someone claims they “don’t mean it that way,” the impact lands the same; it reinforces a world where disabled ...

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 ...

FARGO (KVRR-KFGO) — Charlie’s Place, a south Fargo coffee shop staffed by people with intellectual disabilities, announced it ...

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 ...

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

Capital Matters is a recurring series by Jordan Steiker that covers federal constitutional regulation of the death penalty ...

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

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 ...

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