BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Families and loved ones of children who may have developmental disabilites can get extra support during a webinar scheduled for Monday, July 15. The webinar is being put on ...

HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - March is Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month to raise awareness of developmental disabilities and the challenges people with them can face. While nonverbal learning ...

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

University of Cincinnati and Ohio State University researchers have found that adults with developmental disabilities who have integrated care were less likely to go to the emergency room or be ...

The nation’s pediatricians are getting new guidelines for how to go about evaluating children who present with global developmental delay or intellectual disability. Doctors should use genetic testing ...

The share of American children who have ever been diagnosed with a developmental disability increased again in 2021, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and ...

More kids in the United States are getting a developmental disability diagnosis, with prevalence close to 9% in 2021, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports. Among 3- to ...

Each March, Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month encourages people across the country to pause and acknowledge the leadership, contributions, and lived experiences of people with disabilities.

In the latest National Autism Indicators Report, researchers from Drexel University’s A.J. Drexel Autism Institute examined surveys of family members of autistic adults who use Developmental ...

People with developmental disability have higher health care needs and lower life expectancy compared with the general population. Poor quality of care resulting from interpersonal and systemic ...

People with physical, mental, and developmental disabilities have long been discriminated against and marginalized across the globe, but the roots of disability inequity and its social consequences ...