Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Recent challenges with Medicaid waivers for people with developmental disabilities are among the problems that have been building ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Three years after a federal judge found Illinois had failed to meet the standards of a consent decree mandating sufficient services to residents with intellectual and developmental disabilities, Gov.

Although the home environment is known to influence behavior problems in children with developmental disabilities (DD), the precise contributions of specific domains remained unquantified, hindering ...

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 ...

Rocco Friebel ([email protected]), London School of Economics and Political Science and Center for Global Development Europe, London, United Kingdom. Laia Maynou, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, ...

La. House Bill 590 would provide two free envelopes for drivers to keep in their vehicles. A green envelope would indicate ...

From 2017 through 2023, roughly 2,680 people with developmental disabilities died under the care of the state of Missouri — on average, one person every day. This story was commissioned by the River ...

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 ...