Aaron Bass likes some things about Shapiro Developmental Center, a home he shares with some 500 others on a site along the Kankakee River that first housed Illinois residents with disabilities nearly ...

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 ...

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 ...

News 8 spoke with the University of Iowa researcher behind the study and what he hopes these findings mean for our ...

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 ...

If you enjoyed the research process as an undergraduate and have a strong interest in human development—and want to see how research can be applied in real-world settings—then it is time to think ...

For example, of the estimated US$79.1 billion disbursed as development assistance for early childhood development by donor countries and private foundations between 2007 and 2016, only US$0.5 billion ...

Developmental disabilities, such as autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disabilities, are long-term conditions that affect an individual’s cognitive, physical, psychological, language, or ...

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 ...