Some parents and teachers correlate bad grades with the child being a bad student, but that’s not always the case. “Learning disabilities can manifest themselves in many different ways,” says Dr.

What are intellectual and developmental disabilities? Intellectual disability is a disability characterized by significant limitations in both intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior, which ...

Changes to the federal government’s developmental milestone checklists have some experts concerned about potential delays to early intervention. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released ...

The nation’s pediatricians are getting new guidelines for how to go about evaluating children who present with global developmental delay or intellectual disability. Doctors should use genetic testing ...

ATLANTA – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in collaboration with a coalition of national partners, is launching a new phase of the “Learn the Signs. Act Early” public awareness ...

Developmental delays can affect a child’s physical, cognitive, communication, social, emotional, or behavioral skills. Often, delays affect more than one area of development. When a child has delays ...

Developmental delay will be a big part of the new NDIS alternative for some kids. But what does the phrase mean and how can ...

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When Selina Likely became director of the Edwards Creative Learning Center six years ago, she knew there was one longstanding practice that she wanted to change. For as long as she had taught at the ...

61 million adult Americans live with some sort of physical, sensory, or intellectual disability. When parents receive the news—prenatally or postnatally—that their child may have some form of a ...