Officials say the five-year 0.85-mill levy for developmental disabilities services is necessary to preserve critical programs ...
What are intellectual and developmental disabilities? Intellectual disability is a disability characterized by significant limitations in both intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior, which ...
The number of children with developmental disabilities is on the rise with new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showing that nearly 1 in 11 kids are diagnosed with autism, ...
Restrictive guardianships deserve increased scrutiny from policymakers in order to ensure that disabled people are not denied their reproductive rights. A woman with Down syndrome draws on a community ...
Aaron Bass likes some things about Shapiro Developmental Center, a home he shares with some 500 others on a site along the Kankakee River that first housed Illinois residents with disabilities nearly ...
Children were more likely to be diagnosed with developmental disabilities during the Covid-19 pandemic than they were in the year before, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease ...
STATEHOUSE. SEVERAL PEOPLE AT THAT RALLY SAY THOSE PROPOSED BUDGET CUTS COULD IMPACT SERVICES FOR PEOPLE WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES. AND TONIGHT THEY’RE MAKING THEIR VOICES HEARD. SAVE OUR ...
ATLANTA — Lloyd Mills was tired of being stuck in a small, drab hospital room. On a rainy mid-September morning, a small TV attached to a mostly blank white wall played silently. There was nothing in ...