Intellectual or developmental disability, known as IDD, affects approximately 7.39 million people in the United States, according to a 2019 estimate by the University of Minnesota. Typically present ...
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - March is Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month to raise awareness of developmental disabilities and the challenges people with them can face. While nonverbal learning ...
Aaron Bass likes some things about Shapiro Developmental Center, a home he shares with some 500 others on a site along the Kankakee River that first housed Illinois residents with disabilities nearly ...
March is Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month. In today’s Ideas & Voices, hear contributors discuss how our communities can better support, celebrate and champion those in our region with ...
School districts prepare students for post-grad life, but skills and potential are lost as Chicago families try to figure out the next steps on their own. Seven months after he graduated from an ...
At the end of 2019, just before COVID, the Cuyahoga County Board of Developmental Disabilities (Cuyahoga DD) privatized its day program and transportation services — services that were a visible, ...
March is Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month and the Developmental Disability Resource Board of Jasper County arranged a series of free screenings of a movie called "The R-Word" at Royale ...
Did you know the biggest challenge facing people with developmental disabilities continues to be stigma from negative perceptions? This results in health-care disparities, underemployment and social ...