New research has revealed a confronting life-expectancy gap for people with intellectual disability in NSW, highlighting ...
This project was funded by the Endeavour Foundation Disability Research Grant. Leaving school and figuring out what’s next is challenging for young people. For those with disability, it is even harder ...
“As we walk into town passing families, children of all ages stop and stare open-mouthed. My daughter doesn't see it, but I do. I can see they are trying to work out: why is that person walking with ...
People with intellectual disabilities, such as those with Down syndrome or fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, have historically had shorter life expectancies than the general population, but data from a ...
Far too often, people with intellectual disabilities are not seen or valued in the same way others are, and thus can feel ...
Despite what President Trump said at a press conference Thursday — “They can be air traffic controllers” — that’s not how disability hiring works, says Chai Feldblum, a disability lawyer and former ...
Research finds health disparities among people with IDD. Racial and ethnic health disparities are a pervasive public health problem. Research finds similar health disparities among people with ...
A Knoxville nonprofit program that has provided jobs and community to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities ...
Systems weren’t built for neurodiversity. This post shows how psychology helps us shift from compliance to belonging for ...
A state lawmaker says it’s time to reevaluate a Utah nonprofit’s longtime status as a designated watchdog for those with ...
Last month, a Baltimore County judge ordered the Maryland Department of Health to pay over $600,000 for its failure to meet the needs of people in the criminal legal system who have intellectual ...
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has the opportunity in the case of Bobby James Moore, a death row inmate with severe intellectual disability, to bring the state’s capital punishment standards in ...