"Why am I the only one who can't do this?" Are you feeling that kind of loneliness or difficulty in living? It is not due to ...

My second son has ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) without intellectual disability.Because he is in the borderline range (the so-called gray zone), he looks no different from any other child at first ...

A first-of-its-kind Portuguese study of 234 adults with intellectual disabilities aged 45 and older finds that nearly half ...

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

Children with intellectual disabilities face greater mental health difficulties when they are from a disadvantaged background ...

A new narrative review documents how adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the US go years without ...

My patient, W.B., is a 43-year-old man with an intellectual disability who has lived with his mother his entire life. He communicates with augmentative and alternative communication. He presents to my ...

An estimated 10 to 15 million people in Africa have some form of Intellectual disability and the majority live in poverty and isolation. The ILO-Irish Aid Partnership Programme will be gathering ...

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 ...

Intellectual disability is most often caused by changes to the genome that take place in early fetal development and are not found in the parents' DNA. This is why the risk of recurrence in the next ...

Children with intellectual disabilities face greater mental health difficulties when they are from a disadvantaged background, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.