During the Civil Rights Movement, disabled activists helped shape new legal protections. Decades later, local self-advocates ...

From policy to practice: obstacles and opportunities for inclusive employment in California People with IDD want to ...

As federal officials begin to outline more stringent Medicaid eligibility rules, worries are running high about what the ...

Aaron Bass likes some things about Shapiro Developmental Center, a home he shares with some 500 others on a site along the Kankakee River that first housed Illinois residents with disabilities nearly ...

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

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 of ...

Deputy Secretary Marlana Hutchinson listens to advocates testify Thursday on proposed cuts to the Developmental Disabilities Administration budget. (Photo by Danielle J. Brown). State officials said ...

Many families are worried about cuts in the budget that will end programs that help everyone from preschoolers to adults with special needs. “It makes me sad,” Anita Kitchen said. Kitchen is a retired ...

The Washington County Commissioners announced their approval for a tax levy, which will provide funding for the Washington ...

The coronavirus pandemic has had an especially harsh impact on people with intellectual and developmental disabilities – and they need special support, a group of specialists argued Friday in a letter ...

READING, Pa. – The Berks County Commissioners on Thursday recognized March as Intellectual and Developmental Disability Month. Pam Seaman, the county’s administrator of mental health and developmental ...

The Doha International Conference on Disability and Development was held on 7-8 December 2019, under the guidance and patronage of Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, Founder of Qatar Foundation ...