University of Wyoming

Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

What are intellectual and developmental disabilities? Intellectual disability is a disability characterized by significant limitations in both intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior, which ...
Healthline

What’s the Difference Between an Intellectual Disability and a Learning Disability?

Intellectual disabilities affect a child’s ability to learn and function at levels considered typical for their age. Learning disabilities affect a child’s ability to master specific skills, like ...
Healthline

Borderline Intellectual Functioning: Not a Formal Diagnosis, but Should It Be?

Borderline intellectual functioning (BIF) isn’t currently a stand-alone diagnosis. Some diagnostic guidelines use it as a descriptive code, while others include it within a broader spectrum of ...
Disability Scoop

How Common Is Intellectual Disability Among Adults?

A new study is among the first to estimate the number of adults in the U.S. with intellectual disability, offering policymakers and other stakeholders a snapshot of the need for resources. Just shy of ...
The Conversation

‘They treat you like an it’: people with intellectual disability on seeing medical professionals

Elizabeth Emma Palmer has received funding from the NHMRC and NSW Health. She is a clinical geneticist at Sydney Children's Hospitals Network-Randwick and a member of the medical and scientific ...
WXII 12 NEWS

People with intellectual or developmental disabilities face big gap in health care services, doctor says

NEWS. THE LATEST NUMBERS FROM THE CDC FINDS AUTISM AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES ARE ON THE RISE. A DOCTOR WHO SPECIALIZES IN THIS FIELD SAYS THOSE PATIENTS FACE A SERIOUS GAP IN HEALTH CARE SERVICES ...
Forbes

Supporting Older Adults With Intellectual Disabilities: A Growing Imperative For Leaders

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 ...

The pending Supreme Court decision that worries disability rights groups

Is an intellectual disability a condition, or a number on an IQ test? Here's why an Alabama death penalty case at the Supreme ...
Disability Scoop

CDC Study Pinpoints Prevalence Of Intellectual Disability

Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are offering up a new estimate of the number of American children with intellectual disability. In a study looking at 8-year-olds in ...
The Conversation

US prisons hold more than 550,000 people with intellectual disabilities – they face exploitation, harsh treatment

Jennifer Sarrett does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
PBS

Kids with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

61 million adult Americans live with some sort of disability. 61 million adult Americans live with some sort of physical, sensory, or intellectual disability. When parents receive the news—prenatally ...