The state Department of Health and Human Services has shown some progress in meeting court-ordered deadlines to make sure ...

Working-age adults with disabilities reported higher levels of loneliness in contrast to people without disabilities, Brown ...

Along with connecting people with apartments and housing services, The Arc opperates a day program that offers community ...

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 ...

People with intellectual and developmental disabilities are more likely than others to say that physicians don’t listen to them, spend enough time with them or offer advice that’s easy to understand.

Adults with disabilities are nearly twice as likely to misuse prescription drugs as adults without disabilities, according to West Virginia University research. Jeanette Garcia, associate professor at ...

People with intellectual disabilities, such as those with Down syndrome or fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, have historically had shorter life expectancies than the general population, but data from a ...

Disability is part of the human condition. Almost everyone will experience a disability at some point in their lives, and more than 40 million Americans are living with a disability today. 1 But ...

Disabled adults face more obstacles in building credit and maintaining financial health than non-disabled adults. For example, adults with disabilities are less likely to be approved for and hold a ...

This year BPS is launching a NExT program, officials announced Monday -- an idea decades in the making to provide resources ...

These state-run facilities are the last two to care for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. They haven't ...