About 8.6% of children ages 3 to 17 had a diagnosed developmental disability in 2021, up from 7.4% in 2019. About 3% of the 2021 group had been diagnosed with autism, ...

(CBS) Developmental disability is on the rise in the U.S. Between 1997 and 2008, the number of school-age children diagnosed with autism, ADHD, or another developmental disability rose by about 17 ...

In the meantime, the academy has said intellectual and developmental disability diagnoses should be explicitly included on the list of high-risk conditions used to determine vaccine priority, and ...

Ms. McGovern is an author and the mother of a 25-year-old with autism. In 2018 an NPR investigation sent shock waves through the community of people with intellectual or developmental disabilities ...

People with developmental disability are nearly three times as likely than other patients to experience preventable physical injuries while in hospital, reveals new research by the London School ...

About 1 in 6 U.S. children are diagnosed with a developmental disability, according to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study published online in the journal Pediatrics Monday. That ...