The nation’s pediatricians are getting new guidelines for how to go about evaluating children who present with global developmental delay or intellectual disability. Doctors should use genetic testing ...
What are intellectual and developmental disabilities? Intellectual disability is a disability characterized by significant limitations in both intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior, which ...
Margie Garcia, the mother of an 18-year-old with autism, desperately wants her son to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. But she fears that the sight of the syringe could trigger his anxiety, causing him ...
It all started with a manikin. When training her Yale School of Nursing (YSN) students in clinical skills, Christine Rodriguez will often use the human-shaped models in simulated health care ...
More Minnesotans with developmental and intellectual disabilities are aging and need more involved care, leaving more to soon ...
Kim Bullock, MD, said she often hears directly from adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs) about their difficulties with obtaining preventive care. Physicians may neglect to ...
Rocco Friebel ([email protected]), London School of Economics and Political Science and Center for Global Development Europe, London, United Kingdom. Laia Maynou, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, ...
A key U.S. Senate panel rejected a Trump administration push to make major changes to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and defund some disability programs, but significant uncertainty ...