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Mapping the Hidden System That Keeps People With Intellectual Disabilities Out of Cancer Screening

A Dutch team used group model building to map 48 interconnected factors that shape whether people with intellectual ...

For Arizonans with disabilities, a job is but the first step | Opinion

Arizona adults with intellectual disabilities need more than meaningful employment. They also need housing options that ...
U.S. News & World Report

Helping Kids With Intellectual Disabilities Navigate Social Challenges

People face varied challenges as a result of having an intellectual disability. According to the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, intellectual disabilities are ...
Psychology Today

Intellectual Disability (Intellectual Developmental Disorder)

Intellectual disability is a disorder marked by below-average intellectual function and a lack of skills necessary for independent daily living. The condition begins in the developmental period. The ...
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Adults With Intellectual Disability Co-Design a Balance Exercise App Built Around Safety, Simplicity and Belonging

A Swedish co-creation study shows that adults with intellectual disability, when given genuine design control over a balance exercise app, prioritise simplicity, safety, recognisable instructions, and ...
The Conversation

People with intellectual disability are often diagnosed with cancer when it is already well advanced

Many people with intellectual disability are diagnosed with cancer when it has already spread (metastasized) and the odds of survival are lower. Intellectual disability is a lifelong condition that ...
Medical Xpress

The life expectancy of people with intellectual disability is 16 years shorter than average, study finds

New research has revealed a confronting life-expectancy gap for people with intellectual disability in NSW, highlighting persistent and preventable inequities in health outcomes. The research, Life ...

Thoughts on my son's severe intellectual disability and autism through the lens of overseas therapy

It is the simplest password in the world.However, my 10-year-old son cannot press these.I sit him in front of the tablet and guide his finger to teach him. But he cannot remember. It is not that he ...
The Conversation

People with intellectual disability have a right to sexuality – but their families have concerns

People with intellectual disability are entitled to their human rights like everyone else. Shutterstock Many South Africans living with intellectual disability don’t have opportunities to be part of ...
Psychology Today

Intellectual Disability (Intellectual Developmental Disorder)

Intellectual disability is a disorder marked by below-average intellectual function and a lack of skills necessary for independent daily living. The condition begins in the developmental period. The ...