Students are forced to miss school. EAs face stress and injuries. More training and outside help may be the answer.

Mumbai: Ruling that consent given by a person of unsound mind is invalid, a sessions court convicted and sentenced a ...

Parents and teachers have raised alarms at recent school board meetings, saying they’re struggling to keep students safe with ...

For decades, autism has been described as a spectrum - an elastic term that stretches from nonverbal children to adults with ...

Help local families in need via Holiday Helping Hand, the fundraising drive by the Poughkeepsie Journal and United Way of the ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in a case that advocates say could have major implications for how intellectual disability is defined. The high court will consider Hamm v. Smith on ...

The case involves an Alabama man who challenged his death sentence after a murder conviction because of his varying results in a series of I.Q. tests. By Ann E. Marimow Reporting from Washington The ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday grappled with where the line should be drawn on intellectual disability when the death penalty is on the table in a case that could make it harder for convicted killers ...

For half a century, the U.S. has been achieving one of the most important civil rights victories most Americans have never heard of: closing the large institutions that once warehoused people with ...