Hawaii Teens Assault Woman With Intellectual Disability; Outraged Locals Track Down Attackers In Wahiawa, Hawaii, four teenagers were filmed brutally attacking Carly, a 21-year-old woman with an ...

Introduction Children and young people with intellectual disability represent one of the most vulnerable groups in healthcare, yet they remain under-represented in projects to design, develop and/or ...

The Peach State currently has the highest threshold in the nation for a person to prove they have an intellectual disability, allowing them to avoid the death penalty. After a yearslong push to ...

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 ...

ATLANTA – Legislation that would make it easier for defendants in death penalty cases to establish intellectual disability as a defense cleared a Georgia House committee Wednesday. “Georgia is the ...

The state government has committed $2 million annually to the Queensland Centre of Excellence in Intellectual and Developmental Disability Mental Health (QCEAIDH). A new centre of excellence to ...

A phenome-wide association study of methylated GC-rich repeats identifies a GCC repeat expansion in AFF3 associated with intellectual disability. Nature Genetics, 2024; DOI: 10.1038/s41588-024-01917-1 ...

Immersive virtual reality could help people with a disability learn practical life skills much faster without relying on caregivers, new research shows. The study was conducted by University of South ...

Individuals with an intellectual disability made subject to orders under the IDCC&R Act are described as ‘care recipients’. Those found unfit to stand trial on serious charges can be made ‘special ...

Stimulants were also prescribed at a much lower rate among the intellectual disability cohort (24.5%) than the control cohort (42.0%; P <.001).

The way in which an intellectual disability presents itself depends on the underlying cause and severity. Profound or severe cases are usually evident soon after birth. With milder forms, intellectual ...