TULSA, Okla. — People on a decade-long waitlist for developmental disability services are finally coming off that list. It's all in an effort by the state to end the waitlist, but families coming off ...

Disability advocates and residents urged the Maryland Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday to advance legislation designed to ...

What are intellectual and developmental disabilities? Intellectual disability is a disability characterized by significant limitations in both intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior, which ...

Eastern Shore lawmakers and advocates rallied Saturday in Salisbury to ask state leaders to restore funding for Maryland’s Developmental Disabilities Administration – and to rethink how services are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Over the course of this legislative session, Virginia lawmakers might have to plug a budget hole for services for people with ...

The hearing on $150 million in proposed cuts to the Developmental Disabilities Administration was mostly dry, until ...

Research finds health disparities among people with IDD. Racial and ethnic health disparities are a pervasive public health problem. Research finds similar health disparities among people with ...

Since 1987, March has been designated Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month in the US. This month recognizes individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and the barriers ...

NEWS. THE LATEST NUMBERS FROM THE CDC FINDS AUTISM AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES ARE ON THE RISE. A DOCTOR WHO SPECIALIZES IN THIS FIELD SAYS THOSE PATIENTS FACE A SERIOUS GAP IN HEALTH CARE SERVICES ...

SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – After checking in on more than 4,400 New Mexicans within the state’s developmental disabilities healthcare system, state officials say they’ve found 68 sites with “possible ...

Over the course of this legislative session, Virginia lawmakers might have to plug a budget hole for services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities if they want to reduce the ...