People with intellectual and developmental disabilities often face difficulty accessing needed organ transplants, but now a ...

Just weeks after the U.S. House approved billions in cuts to Medicaid, the Senate is considering chopping the program even ...

A new documentary highlighting the experiences of the millions of paid and family caregivers across the nation is set to premiere.

In a ruling with broad implications, the Supreme Court said unanimously that claims of disability discrimination at schools ...

Disability advocates are suing after the Trump White House abruptly stopped including sign language interpreters at press ...

The National Institutes of Health is making $50 million available to study autism, but many researchers in the field are ...

This comes as federal health officials have fired off one announcement after the next since President Donald Trump took office about their plans to aggressively target autism amid increasing ...

A new version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders released this month includes changes to the definitions of both autism and intellectual disability that experts say will ...

Yet, like Louie and her husband, Kenny, many families do foster and ultimately adopt children with special health care needs. That’s despite challenges these families often encounter, such as ...

The researchers found that anxiety declined in those in the propranolol group, but no changes were observed in social communication skills. “The findings show that propranolol could serve as a helpful ...