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People with intellectual disability have excess premature mortality

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. The researchers sought to evaluate premature mortality ...

Caring for special needs adults requires careful planning, experts say. Here are some ways to find help.

Federal law entitles students with disabilities to special education services until they turn 21. What happens next is what ...
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‘Profound Autism’ Accounts For More Than 1 In 4 Cases, CDC Finds

With a new report, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is tacitly embracing a recently coined autism classification and providing a first-of-its-kind breakdown on the number of kids on the ...
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Hospitals only note a person’s intellectual disability 20% of the time – so they don’t adjust their care

Adrian Raymond Walker currently works in the Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry at The University of New South Wales, Sydney. The department receives core funding from the NSW ...
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Breast cancer screening less common for women with intellectual disability

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among women eligible for Denmark’s national breast cancer screening program, those who had an intellectual ...