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

Disability rights advocates have warned that a Supreme Court case involving death row inmates could have serious consequences ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in a case that advocates say could have major implications for how intellectual disability is defined. The high court will consider Hamm v. Smith on ...

Disability advocates are speaking out as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to take on a case that hinges on whether a diagnosis of intellectual disability should be based on more than an IQ score. The ...

ALBANY — Four people with intellectual and developmental disabilities filed a lawsuit this week in state Supreme Court in Albany alleging that “illegal and discriminatory” guardianships over them has ...

The Trump administration proposed cuts for state-based legal services for disabled people, as rights advocates say DOJ pushed ...

Nothing brought Olivia more joy than when her daughter and grandchild visited her group home in Brooklyn in the early 2000s. Each hug and shared laugh lit up her face with pride like any mother’s, ...

North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services office complex at Dorothea Dix Park North Carolinians with intellectual and developmental disabilities can expect changes in access to ...

One evening this May, about a dozen young adults and their families gathered with faculty of TerpsEXCEED, an inclusive two-year post-secondary education program at the University of Maryland for ...

Associate Professor Patsie Frawley researches sexuality rights as well as violence and abuse prevention in the lives of ...