Independence focuses on one individual achieving a goal or task fully on their own. Interdependence is a dynamic, mutual ...

Taking acetaminophen in pregnancy is not associated with autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability in babies, finds a new ...

An Indiana House committee unanimously advanced a bill Wednesday tightening protections for defendants with intellectual ...

The latest work adds to the growing body of research refuting claims made by the Trump administration last year when the ...

"It's as definitive as we're going to get," CBS News medical contributor Dr. Céline Gounder said of the new research, which ...

WASHINGTON – Disability rights groups fear a death penalty case before the Supreme Court could have implications for the intellectually disabled far beyond the criminal context. The justices are ...

Kay Flock's lawyers have a new argument for why their client shouldn't get the 50-year prison sentence the government is pushing for when he's sentenced in his federal racketeering case in just a few ...

TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday refused to halt next week’s scheduled execution of Frank Walls, turning down arguments that he should be spared because he is intellectually ...

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

The Supreme Court on Wednesday grappled with where the line should be drawn on intellectual disability when the death penalty is on the table in a case that could make it harder for convicted killers ...

The case involves an Alabama man who challenged his death sentence after a murder conviction because of his varying results in a series of I.Q. tests. By Ann E. Marimow Reporting from Washington The ...

For half a century, the U.S. has been achieving one of the most important civil rights victories most Americans have never heard of: closing the large institutions that once warehoused people with ...