A new study published on December 2, 2019, in the Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities shows why people with intellectual disabilities (ID) typically have a shorter life span ...

Scientists have uncovered a rare genetic cause of intellectual disability in a historically overlooked part of the human genome: so-called junk DNA. This knowledge could someday help to diagnose some ...

A common diagnostic question at the UC Riverside SEARCH Center is: How do we determine whether a child or adolescent should be given a diagnosis of ASD, ID, or both? A related question is: What is ...

Intellectual disability is most often caused by changes to the genome that take place in early fetal development and are not found in the parents' DNA. This is why the risk of recurrence in the next ...

SPOKANE, Wash. - Project ID volunteers put together Christmas stockings for a home of 200 people who live with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Spokane. Over the next few days, Santa ...

Hello, my name is Patricia Navarro, Coming from a Latino family, it is very important for me to help our community understand the need to mental health services and how it can help us function better ...

Reviewed by Nicole Foubister, MD, NYU Child Study Center, and Assistant Professor, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, NYU College of Arts & Science, New York, NY Cerebral palsy (CP), is a heterogeneous ...