The support staff from the nonprofit "Mainstay" helps those living with intellectual disabilities lead an independent ...

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 ...

Scientists have identified the genetic basis of a disorder causing intellectual disability, affecting approximately one in 20,000 young people. The disorder is characterized by symptoms including ...

A new version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders released this month includes changes to the definitions of both autism and intellectual disability that experts say will ...

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 ...

Children of a parent with alcohol or drug use disorder have a greater risk of intellectual disability, even if the problem only lies with the father, researchers from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden ...

Months after the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that advocates said could have major implications for ...

People with intellectual disabilities are at higher risk for various health problems. In general, they tend to be engaged in less physical activity. In Canada and the U.S. alike, people with ...

The practice has mostly fallen out of favor in the United States in recent decades but is still used at one institution: the ...

New research presented at this year's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (Copenhagen, April 15–18) and published in The Lancet Public Health shows that the impact of ...

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