JOHNSON COUNTY, Kan. — One Kansas City area family is speaking out about the struggles of transportation and housing for their adult daughter, who has developmental disabilities. Rachel Mast works ...

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

The month of March is celebrated as Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month. An intellectual disability refers to a group of disorders characterized by limited mental capacity that ...

Imagine the world in 2030, fully inclusive of persons with disabilities! During the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20, Member States agreed to launch a process to ...

While you may be aware that, since 1995, March has been designated Women’s History Month, March also has a significance that the general public may not be aware of. This is Developmental Disability ...

The number of children with developmental disabilities is on the rise with new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showing that nearly 1 in 11 kids are diagnosed with autism, ...

Children with developmental differences often need extra services to support their physical health and mental well-being. But researching and connecting with specialists and other service providers ...

People with developmental disability have higher health care needs and lower life expectancy compared with the general population. Poor quality of care resulting from interpersonal and systemic ...

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 ...