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

Rendering of The Village, a project by Cornerstone Housing. For three decades, ETTA has been building community for adults with developmental differences— a community forged through friendship, ...

FAIRFIELD, N.J.-- A new studio in New Jersey is breaking stereotypes and reinventing how to teach adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities. The center is called "Studio Arc" and it ...

Jason acquired a traumatic brain injury from a car accident at the age of 18 and lived his entire adult life in group homes, but he longed to live independently and teach chess in elementary schools.

EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — The Emergence Health Network wrapped upNational Intellectual and Development Disabilities month on Thursday with a Dr. Seuss-style celebration. Each year we take this ...

University of Northern Colorado graduated its first set of inclusive higher education students, who have intellectual or developmental disabilities. What that means for one family. It is graduation ...

Intellectual disability is a disorder marked by below-average intellectual function and a lack of skills necessary for independent daily living. The condition begins in the developmental period. The ...

A not-for-profit that helps adults with developmental or intellectual disabilities live in homes of their own is planning to develop a $12 million pocket neighborhood on one of three sites in ...

Despite ample recent news coverage about possible deep federal cuts to the program — some misperceptions persist that it is simply a “government handout” program. In fact, according to health polling ...

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 ...