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

Today marks the end of National Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month but that does not mean people should stop trying to include people with developmental disabilities in all facets of life. The ...

Children living in certain areas are more likely to have developmental disabilities, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and where a child lives ...

Children with developmental disabilities are more likely to have parent-reported chronic pain than those without such conditions.

Patricia Mouthon adores her 12-year-old son. “He is lovely and cute and amazing and I love him,” said Mouthon, a Virginia Beach resident. But that doesn’t mean taking care of him every day is easy.

61 million adult Americans live with some sort of disability. 61 million adult Americans live with some sort of physical, sensory, or intellectual disability. When parents receive the news—prenatally ...