For half a century, the U.S. has been achieving one of the most important civil rights victories most Americans have never ...

The state of Alabama disagrees: anyone scoring 70 or above on one test, its attorney general contends, is intelligent enough ...

Between 0.7% and 1.5% of people in developed countries are estimated to suffer from intellectual disability (ID). In Spain, ...

Once a common schoolyard insult, the R-word had largely vanished from mainstream speech until recently. President Donald ...

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

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 ...

In 2002, the Supreme Court ruled in Atkins v. Virginia that the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment bars the ...

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 ...

SAPD says he is considered an endangered missing person, and officers believe his disappearance poses a credible threat to ...

A man with an intellectual disability was punched and pushed onto CTA tracks Monday morning at the Harlem Blue Line in Forest ...