Despite 13% of the American population living with a disability, stigma and discrimination persist. With 44 million Americans living with some form of disability, it is more critical than ever to ...

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

Allison Boot, MA, is an Independent Living Specialist with the Access Center for Independent Living. (CONTRIBUTED) Allison Boot, MA, is an Independent Living Specialist with the Access Center for ...

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 ...

The month of March is celebrated as Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month. An intellectual disability refers to a group of disorders characterized by limited mental capacity that ...

Trinity Services and Common Energy partner on community solar to save residents with disabilities 20% on energy costs for 20 years.

Some parents and teachers correlate bad grades with the child being a bad student, but that’s not always the case. “Learning disabilities can manifest themselves in many different ways,” says Dr.

Aaron Bass likes some things about Shapiro Developmental Center, a home he shares with some 500 others on a site along the Kankakee River that first housed Illinois residents with disabilities nearly ...

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 ...