Disability rights advocates have warned that a Supreme Court case involving death row inmates could have serious consequences ...

U.S. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito appeared inclined to side with the state of Alabama during ...

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

Is an intellectual disability a condition, or a number on an IQ test? Here's why an Alabama death penalty case at the Supreme ...

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday, December 10, heard oral argument in Hamm vs. Smith, a capital case that could reshape how courts evaluate intellectual disability under Atkins v. Virginia and its ...

The bizarre oral argument in Hamm v. Smith shows how decades of case law rooted in science is now under siege at the Supreme Court.

Autism cases are surging in the New York-New Jersey metro area, mainly fueled by the diagnosis of autistic children who don't have intellectual disabilities, a new study reports. The percentage of ...

If Pervis Payne is determined to have an intellectual disability, he could be saved from execution. But first he will face a week-long hearing in which experts, his family and others will testify ...

In partnership with the London Health Centre in Canada, the Greenwood Genetic Center launched a first of its kind clinical epigenetic test that will analyze gene expression. The goal with the test, ...