Since 1987, March has been designated Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month in the US. This month recognizes individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and the barriers ...

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 ...

Dr. Yolangel Hernandez Suarez was not able to see her son for months after the pandemic began. A 28-year-old man who is on the autism spectrum, her son lives in a group home. Until recently, visits to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andrew Pulrang writes about disability practices, policy, and culture. There’s an important question that may get too little ...

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 ...

Purpose-built software revolutionizes compliance management for group homes and developmental disability residential ...

Congress is moving to ban devices used to administer electric shocks on people with developmental disabilities in an effort to modify their behavior, a practice that advocates have long decried as ...

TULSA, Okla. — People on a decade-long waitlist for developmental disability services are finally coming off that list. It's all in an effort by the state to end the waitlist, but families coming off ...

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, ...