intellectual disability

The high rates of sexual assault among people with intellectual disabilities can make romantic relationships difficult. One class aims to teach them about healthy relationships and sexuality.

David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz chronicle America's poisonous relationship with lead in Lead Wars. "We've created a terribly toxic environment in all sorts of ways," Rosner says.

A village of tiny homes to house people with mental illnesses could be coming to Chatham County, North Carolina.Many people with mental illnesses live on…

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed a new law that creates a special missing person alert for people with mental, intellectual or developmental…

More than half of young people with autism have neither a job nor educational plans in the first two years after high school, a study finds.

Only 17.5 percent of Americans with disabilities over age 16 are employed, compared with 64.7 percent of the population without disabilities, according to…

FAST FACTS:· Kabuki syndrome is a genetic disease that affects proteins that help control the compaction of DNA.· Symptoms include intellectual disability…