GMA Network

Best Buddies Philippines launches Metro Manila Friendship Walk on March 22, 2026

Best Buddies Philippines Foundation Inc. will host its first-ever Friendship Walk in Metro Manila on March 22, 2026, at the ...
GMA Network

Best Buddies Philippines launches inaugural Metro Manila Friendship Walk in partnership with BGC on March 22, 2026

Best Buddies Philippines Foundation Inc. will host its first-ever Friendship Walk in Metro Manila on March 22, 2026, at the ...
STAT

People with intellectual and development disabilities have higher rates of anxiety, depression

Theresa Gaffney is the lead Morning Rounds writer and reports on health care, new research, and public policy, with a particular interest in mental health, gender-affirming care, and LGBTQ+ patient ...
News Medical

Adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities face severe mental health disparities

Adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, such as autism and Down syndrome, experience substantially higher rates of anxiety and depression than the general population of adults, ...
The New York Times

The ‘R-Word’ Returns, Dismaying Those Who Fought to Oust It

The term, long considered a slur for those with intellectual disabilities, is seeing a resurgence on social media and across the political right. By Dan Barry and Sonia A. Rao Late last month, a woman ...
People

Missing Teen with Intellectual Disability May Have Been 'Lured' Away from Home Through Roblox

Jahmez Cartwright's phone reportedly pinged in San Diego the day after he disappeared from Philadelphia Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer and Reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working in ...
news10nbc

URochester students with intellectual disabilities to benefit from grant partnership

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education & Human Development has been awarded a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to improve services for students ...
USA Today

The pending Supreme Court decision that worries disability rights groups

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 ...
Eagle-Tribune

Mental health needs of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities can’t be ignored

William Skipworth’s three-part investigation that appeared in The Eagle-Tribune over the last three weekends in November has laid bare the ongoing traumas experienced by people with intellectual and ...
Jurist

Hamm v. Smith: Supreme Court Revisits the Line Between Intellectual Disability and Execution

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

US Supreme Court wrestles with death row inmate's intellectual disability ruling

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 Hill

Supreme Court mulls intellectual disability limits in death penalty cases

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 ...