Family caregivers of people living with an intellectual or developmental disability may provide more than 25 years of care.

Will a child who's evaluated for autism later develop an intellectual disability? Can this be accurately predicted?

Child diagnoses are rising; however, due to changing definitions, systems, and expectations, it is not an epidemic of illness ...

On one of the warmest, sunniest days so far this year, the Lacamas Heritage Trail in Camas teemed with joggers, dog walkers and people shaking off winter with a stroll along Lacamas Lake.

House and Senate Democrats have proposed allocating no money toward the state's preschool program for children under 3.

The catastrophe for the country isn't so much the CDC's latest autism report, it's the threat that those with developmental ...

Olivia Murphy’s parents wanted The Villages at Noah’s Landing to be their daughter’s forever home, the place that would care for her when they no longer could. Murphy, who was adopted from Russia when ...

The highest figure we found for people with autism severe enough to pose significant challenges to daily living was about one-quarter of the autistic population. More frequently, academic estimates ...

While state-run programs are due for an increase, several nonprofit groups would see their funding all but eliminated: "It's not a surgical cut." ...

Advocates are cautiously optimistic about a new workgroup that will look at ways to increase licensed placement settings for foster youth in Maryland.

For people concerned about the self-esteem and suicide ideation of those with autism, Kennedy sounded like his goal was to ...

A woman in the southern African country of Namibia runs a program that harnesses the power but also the gentleness of horses to help children with learning disabilities and conditions like attention-d ...