Unnecessary mentions of a person’s disease, disability, or other health condition may introduce bias. In addition, because there is a broad range of disabilities, diseases, and mental illnesses, if it ...

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 ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Since 1975 the Social Security Administration (SSA) has paid benefits to children with ...

Parents of children with life-impacting learning disabilities, neurological or developmental disorders and/or physical conditions – face myriad challenges associated with raising them. Aside from the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among Medicaid beneficiaries with opioid use disorder, those with a disability were less likely to receive ...

The Americans with Disabilities Act always considers bipolar disorder a disability. However, the Social Security Administration sometimes does not. Bipolar disorder can cause significant shifts in ...

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) recognizes obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) as a disability if it affects an individual’s ability to do essential daily activities, such as work. OCD is a ...

The pandemic has revealed some truths: A lack of mental health providers to sufficiently meet the needs of those in crisis (including providers of color); and the stress that COVID-19 has introduced ...

More than 40% of the 225 scientists and public health workers at the CDC's National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD) were put on administrative leave earlier this month ...

The chapter begins by reviewing recent estimates of the prevalence of learning disabilities (LDs), followed by trend estimates from the general population. The chapter concludes with a comparison of ...