The number of for-profit residential centres for people living with an intellectual disability nearly doubled over the past four years, sparking concerns about the quality of care being received. New ...

People with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD) have unique needs. This article discusses the work of PMLD ...

If your child has an intellectual disability (ID), their brain hasn’t developed properly or has been injured in some way. Their brain may also not function within the normal range of both intellectual ...

Australians with intellectual disability continue to experience unconscious bias in the medical system and much poorer health outcomes than people without disability. On average, they die 27 years ...

Imogen, who lives with intellectual disability, is unable to have scans without sedation and was told to wait five months for a CT scan of a concerning growth in her ear. It took several weeks for her ...

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have published a pivotal study in Nature Genetics (DOI: 10.1038/s41588-024-01917-1) that sheds light on a novel genetic variant associated ...