Literally from the day she was born three months prematurely and weighing only a feathery three pounds and three ounces, able to fit in her father’s hand, St. Mary’s County native Cheryl Knott has ...

Author's mother telling a story next to author, age 5, in a leotard. Source: Emily Beitiks Understandably, there is a deep distrust among people with disabilities of nondisabled people that comes from ...

People with intellectual disabilities, such as those with Down syndrome or fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, have historically had shorter life expectancies than the general population, but data from a ...

Rates of self-reported cognitive disability among U.S. adults are on the increase, driven largely by a surprising jump among young adults ages 18 to 39, according to a new Yale study. In their ...

Karen Cronin was on a camping trip watching an AFL match with her son, Jacob Cozens, when she had an idea that would transform his life. She saw a group of young men socialising, and wished her son ...