Adults with IDDs face disproportionately higher rates of anxiety and depression and barriers to care, prompting researchers to characterize the situation as a ‘mental health crisis.’ ...

Adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities reported more anxiety and depression, more treatment use and greater barriers to care than adults without these limitations, according to a ...

School districts prepare students for post-grad life, but skills and potential are lost as Chicago families try to figure out the next steps on their own. Seven months after he graduated from an ...

Different levels of risk for HIV exist in the different subtypes of intellectual and developmental disabilities. Patients with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) are at a unique risk ...

The project, called Nikki's Next Step, would include 57 housing units, most of which would be for-sale condos.

Joy Boe worked in many different areas of service for people with disabilities, but it was an arts program that she really fell in love with, inspiring what would later become the nonprofit she gladly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Salvation Army in the ByWard Market in Ottawa. (Credit: JEAN LEVAC) John is described as a 10 year old living in the body of a ...

At a group home for people with brain injuries in Haverhill, Donnie Duggan nodded with pride towards a painting he made of Boston's Fenway Park. He took some artistic license, depicting the Green ...

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. — The United Disabilities Services Foundation or UDSF in Lancaster provides services statewide to support those living with disabilities. Under the foundation is the Adult ...

Tallulah Willis has publicly revealed that she was diagnosed with autism. The 30-year-old actress hinted at her struggle with the developmental disability when she took to Instagram on 15 March to ...

More than 450 people attended Becoming Independent’s annual fundraiser at The Backdrop, where guests consumed 2,000 pounds of crab and bid on trips, sports tickets and other auction items.

John is described as a 10 year old living in the body of a 21 year old. He has a developmental disability, a serious psychiatric illness and highly disruptive behavioural issues. He has recently ...