Have you ever heard the terms "developmental disability," "intellectual disability," and "borderline intelligence"?They may ...

Intellectual disability causes significant limitations to a person’s intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior. Intellectual disability is also sometimes known as cognitive disability. An ...

A new primer in Academic Psychiatry outlines seven practical principles for co-designing health professional education ...

My patient, W.B., is a 43-year-old man with an intellectual disability who has lived with his mother his entire life. He communicates with augmentative and alternative communication. He presents to my ...

A web-based cognitive screening tool for children with intellectual disabilities showed strong test-retest reliability over ...

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 ...

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 ...

Patients with intellectual disabilities who were cared for in hospitals without programs tailored to intellectual disabilities had 6% higher costs, and those with extreme admission severity had 42% ...

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare last month released its report on people with disability. It shows two in three people with disability aged 35 to 44 years have parenting ...