The Chronicle of Higher Education

Why Your College Should Join the Intellectual-Disability Movement

For more than 30 years, a movement has been underway in the United States to create campus programs for students with intellectual disabilities to pursue higher education and reap learning and career ...
Georgia Recorder

Georgia agency proposes changes to waiting list for services for people with disabilities

A key program aimed at helping individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities gain access to home care may be ...
Disability Scoop

How Common Is Intellectual Disability Among Adults?

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 ...
Sherbrooke Record

Financial resources for people with disabilities

By R.A. Garber Googling “resources for people with disabilities near me” brings up an almost endless list of resources. The ...
Healthline

What’s the Difference Between an Intellectual Disability and a Learning Disability?

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 ...
EdSource

Public universities should embrace students with intellectual disabilities — now

On Oct. 10, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law AB 447, which authorizes public higher education in California to provide educationally equitable environments that give each Californian, regardless of ...
The Conversation

Hospitals only note a person’s intellectual disability 20% of the time – so they don’t adjust their care

Adrian Raymond Walker currently works in the Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry at The University of New South Wales, Sydney. The department receives core funding from the NSW ...
Jurist

Hamm v. Smith: Supreme Court Revisits the Line Between Intellectual Disability and Execution

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday, December 10, heard oral argument in Hamm vs. Smith, a capital case that could reshape how courts evaluate intellectual disability under Atkins v. Virginia and its ...
Deadline.com

The Black List, Media Access Awards, Easterseals Disability Services, WGA Writers with Disabilities Committee Unveil 2020 Disability List

EXCLUSIVE: The selections for the 2020 Disability List were unveiled Thursday night at the Media Access Awards. The Black List teamed with Easterseals Disability Services, the Writers Guild of America ...
NBC 10 Philadelphia

Gov. Shapiro aims to eliminate waiting list for services for Pa. adults with intellectual disabilities

Gov. Josh Shapiro and his top human services official said Wednesday that the administration has a plan to end a waiting list of thousands of families who are considered to be in dire need of help for ...
Disability Scoop

CDC Adds IDD To List Of Conditions At Increased Risk From COVID-19

Nearly two years into the pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is for the first time acknowledging that people with intellectual and developmental disabilities have an elevated ...