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

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 Iowa professors are using fruit flies to identify what genes cause intellectual disability, a common and often ...

Disability advocates are speaking out as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to take on a case that hinges on whether a diagnosis of intellectual disability should be based on more than an IQ score. The ...

This article is being published in conjunction with a special October 2022 issue of the Health Affairs journal dedicated entirely to Disability and Health. There are numerous health inequities for ...

This project was funded by the Endeavour Foundation Disability Research Grant. Leaving school and figuring out what’s next is challenging for young people. For those with disability, it is even harder ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York state is now issuing identity cards for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The free ID cards are designed to help police, firefighters and emergency ...