BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Families and loved ones of children who may have developmental disabilites can get extra support during a webinar scheduled for Monday, July 15. The webinar is being put on ...

HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - March is Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month to raise awareness of developmental disabilities and the challenges people with them can face. While nonverbal learning ...

What are intellectual and developmental disabilities? Intellectual disability is a disability characterized by significant limitations in both intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior, which ...

Since 1987, March has been designated Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month in the US. This month recognizes individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and the barriers ...

New research finds that people with developmental disabilities were much more likely to die from COVID-19 at the height of the pandemic than others. A review of death certificates nationwide for 2020 ...

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 ...

The number of children with developmental disabilities is on the rise with new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showing that nearly 1 in 11 kids are diagnosed with autism, ...

Recent challenges with Medicaid waivers for people with developmental disabilities are among the problems that have been building up at state health agencies over the last year. (Photo by Danielle J.

March is Developmental Disability Awareness Month, established by President Ronald Reagan in 1987. Despite facing higher unemployment rates, people with developmental disabilities possess a wide range ...

The Fourth Annual Lake County Board of Developmental Disabilities/Deepwood Job and Resource Fair and Hiring Event, recently held at the Mentor Public Schools Paradigm Building, has continued a “new ...

From 2017 through 2023, roughly 2,680 people with developmental disabilities died under the care of the state of Missouri — on average, one person every day. This story was commissioned by the River ...