In some Paralympic sports, the athletes' disabilities are visible - when they run on blades or use a wheelchair, for example. But intellectual disabilities are invisible, and harder to classify - ...

Disability groups are hitting out at charges for long term care for intellectually disabled people. Campaigners say it has happened because legislation was rushed through to redress the illegal ...

Minister of Social Development and Seniors Tinee Furbert provided an overview of the Government’s five-year National Plan for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities. Speaking in the House of Assembly ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Americans with intellectual or developmental disabilities remain shut out of the workforce, despite changing attitudes and billions spent on government programs to help them.

Georgia makes it harder than any other state for an individual to prove they are legally exempt from the death penalty because of an intellectual disability. A bill that would change that is on track ...

Last year, Georgia executed Willie James Pye, whose IQ was low enough to indicate that he was intellectually disabled, according to his lawyers. That rattled Glennville Republican state Rep. Bill ...

The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a case that could make it harder for convicted murderers to show their lives should be spared because they are intellectually disabled. The justices ...