Eighteen climbers took turns scaling the walls at Reading Rocks Saturday during a special event for people with disabilities.

"You're fired," Semmie Lee Williams told his team of public defenders. "Don’t talk to me. I want to represent myself." ...

Background: People with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD) living in residential care facilities receive continence care at scheduled times. This can result in leakage or ...

In the year since Holly's diagnosis, we have experienced incredible kindness, frustrating delays and awful indifference ...

WASHINGTON – Disability rights groups fear a death penalty case before the Supreme Court could have implications for the intellectually disabled far beyond the criminal context. The justices are ...

Background Epilepsy affects 22.2% of people with intellectual disability compared with 1% of the general population. This study aims to identify characteristics associated with epilepsy-caused deaths ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court grappled on Wednesday with a bid by Alabama officials to pursue the execution of an inmate convicted of a 1997 murder who a lower court found to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

DEAR ABBY: I have a 54-year-old profoundly disabled, nonverbal child who is in a group home. I have been advocating for her since birth, when we learned she had suffered severe brain damage. The ...