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 ...

Under federal law, students with disabilities are supposed to attend class with their typically-developing peers as much as possible, but new research suggests that may not be happening. In what ...

A new version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders released this month includes changes to the definitions of both autism and intellectual disability that experts say will ...

Pilar Rivera and other University of North Texas students from the second cohort of ELEVAR sang the alma mater during an orientation welcome session in the Super Pit on July 10, 2022.(Ahna Hubnik / ...

Byron Black was sentenced to death for three 1998 murders. His attorneys have long argued his intellectual disabilities should bar him from execution. A 2021 state law allows courts to review death ...

Researchers identify gene causing intellectual disability syndrome that is common in countries where consanguineous marriages are prevalent. It used to take several years or sometimes decades to ...

A hearing on the defense's intellectual disability claim is Oct. 6 before Marcelle Waldon is sentenced in the 2020 Lakeland ...

The ruling found Waldon did not meet the legal criteria for an intellectual disability, which would have made him ineligible.