Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are offering up a new estimate of the number of American children with intellectual disability. In a study looking at 8-year-olds in ...

More than 1 in 7 American children have a mental, behavioral or developmental disorder, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but prevalence is far from steady across the ...

The #MeToo movement shed a light on how pervasive sexual harassment and assault are in the United States and abroad, but the most vulnerable haven't yet become part of the conversation. According to ...

The estimated prevalence of autism among 8-year-olds in a New Jersey study more than tripled during a 6-year period, including a fivefold increase in children with autism who do not have a ...

But a new study suggests that progress toward that goal has stalled. Findings showed that over the past 40 years, 55 to 73 percent of students with intellectual disabilities spend most or all of the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Groups with shorter fetal maturity at birth had slightly higher rates of multiple neuropsychiatric disorders ...

A combination of missed prevention opportunities and health inequalities can result in the early deaths of people living with epilepsy and intellectual disabilities, new research has shown.

The prevalence of children diagnosed with any developmental disability increased significantly in recent years, from 5.76% in 2014 to 6.99% in 2016, according to new data from the National Center for ...

Scientists have uncovered a rare genetic cause of intellectual disability in a historically overlooked part of the human genome: so-called junk DNA. This knowledge could someday help to diagnose some ...

Autistic adults, adults with intellectual disability, and adults with mental health diagnoses have multiple risk factors for infection with COVID-19 and for experiencing more severe disease if they ...