The major challenges faced by persons with intellectual disability generally is the problem of stereotyping. Disability Stereotyping bears when the society make assumptions, often times wrongly, about ...

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 ...

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North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services office complex at Dorothea Dix Park North Carolina's health agency and a nonprofit defending people with intellectual and development ...

Consumer advocates are pushing for federal agencies to increase scrutiny of a third state’s long-term care system over alleged failures to adequately protect residents with disabilities. The ...

Because there is no constitutional guarantee, every state in the country has different regulations about who is allowed to vote. But in many states, people with intellectual disabilities are denied ...

A nonprofit organization serving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities has filed a class-action lawsuit against the Maryland Department of Health on behalf of people who say their ...