University of Iowa professors are using fruit flies to identify what genes cause intellectual disability, a common and often ...

Researchers at the University of Oxford have developed a "Stroke Cognition Calculator," a new tool designed to estimate a person's chance of having thinking and memory problems six months after a ...

Adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs) are far more likely to experience anxiety and depression than the general population. New national data from more than 44,000 US adults ...

Melvin Trotter was executed for the 1986 murder of Virgie Langford in Palmetto, Florida. His attorneys argue he was intellectually disabled, citing early school records and IQ tests. Courts have ...

Adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, such as autism and Down syndrome, experience substantially higher rates of anxiety and depression than the general population of adults, ...

This commentary argues for the recognition and application of insidious trauma theory to intellectual and developmental disability populations. While the trauma literature in intellectual disability ...

Qualcomm and Arm Holdings were sinking early Thursday as the surging memory-chip prices that are hurting the smartphone market threaten their prospects.

On a simple math task — indicating which of two amounts is greater — kids with math learning disability get the right answer as often as their good-at-math peers, but behind the scenes, their brains ...

Co-authored by Asia Eaton, Ph.D. and Kate L. Long, ABD, OTR/L “We don’t have any people like that in the United States, do we?” This comment from someone I (Kate) truly respected really stunned me. As ...

The term, long considered a slur for those with intellectual disabilities, is seeing a resurgence on social media and across the political right. By Dan Barry and Sonia A. Rao Late last month, a woman ...