Intellectual disability is a disorder marked by below-average intellectual function and a lack of skills necessary for independent daily living. The condition begins in the developmental period.

In continuing to examine how autistic individuals use Medicaid, recent research from Drexel University’s A.J. Drexel Autism Institute has identified a trend in intellectual disability (ID) diagnoses ...

Australians with intellectual disability continue to experience unconscious bias in the medical system and much poorer health outcomes than people without disability. On average, they die 27 years ...

Intellectual disability affects about 1 percent of the population, and the prevalence of severe intellectual disability is approximately six per 1,000 people, according to the DSM-5.

Just shy of 1% of adults between the ages of 21 and 41 have intellectual disability, according to findings published recently in the Journal of Intellectual Disability Research. With no national ...

People with intellectual disability can often be socially isolated and physically inactive. sezer66/Shutterstock. People with intellectual disability often have poor communication skills.

If the first support a mother with intellectual disability receives follows a mandatory report to child protection, it is likely to be too little and too late.

Intellectual Disability is the third (alphabetically) of the six major disability categories at the Paralympic Games. A person with an intellectual disability must have substantial limitation in ...

Sara Stefánsdóttir, James Gordon Rice, Hanna Björg Sigurjónsdóttir, Safeguarding Families and Rights of Parents with Intellectual Disability Involved in Child Protection, The International Journal of ...

Parental substance use disorder and risk of intellectual disability in offspring in Sweden: a national register study. eClinicalMedicine, 2023; 63: 102170 DOI: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2023.102170; ...

In the years after a child is diagnosed with an intellectual disability, many parents decide on living and educational arrangements depending on how much care their child needs, what services are ...