Capital Matters is a recurring series by Jordan Steiker that covers federal constitutional regulation of the death penalty and federal habeas review of state criminal convictions and sentences. At ...

Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are offering up a new estimate of the number of American children with intellectual disability. In a study looking at 8-year-olds in ...

Reginald Jackson has been ruled intellectually disabled and therefore ineligible for the death penalty, upholding a ...

Decades ago, the Supreme Court said inmates who are intellectually disabled can't be executed. Now, it weighs the use of IQ tests in close calls.

Research finds health disparities among people with IDD. Racial and ethnic health disparities are a pervasive public health problem. Research finds similar health disparities among people with ...

Disability rights advocates warn that a pending Supreme Court of the United States case could reshape how intellectual ...

A term often used in both clinical and social settings to denote the capabilities of individuals on the autism spectrum should be consigned to the history books, researchers say. “High functioning ...

Inborn errors of urea synthesis lead to an accumulation of ammonia in blood and brain and result in high rates of mortality and neurodevelopmental disability. This study seeks to characterize the ...

William Skipworth’s three-part investigation that appeared in The Eagle-Tribune over the last three weekends in November has ...

Involvement of different brain dystrophin isoforms was assessed in 3 groups of young males diagnosed with DMD. On their first assessment, 43 of the 70 patients with DMD had normal intelligence ...