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 ...

Expert Community Care Management (ECCM) is a point of entry for families whose loved ones need services for intellectual disabilities or autism. The Erie County-founded nonprofit, which provides ...

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Jen Anderman loves college. She lives on campus at Regis University, is learning about world ...

Disability rights advocates warn that a pending Supreme Court of the United States case could reshape how intellectual ...

When my parents died, it fell to me and my four siblings to take care of our brother Michael. You see, Michael was born in 1960 with Down syndrome. Caring for him wasn’t always easy, but it was ...

Everywhere we go, people stare. My daughter, Lauren, and I might just be picking up milk together at the grocery store or walking around the neighborhood, but people cannot look away. Lauren was born ...

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