Familiar myths are leveraged in the Op-Ed “Phase out Southbury Training School and similar institutions” (Jan. 13). Families whose loved ones are alive today because of the highly specialized care ...

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A new study examining how people with severe and profound intellectual disabilities resist activities while in care recommends that institutions improve training to help carers better understand ...

Intellectual functioning. Also known as IQ, this refers to a person’s ability to learn, reason, make decisions, and solve problems. Adaptive behaviors. These are skills necessary for day-to-day life, ...

Seventy-six teachers were last week introduced to the Department of Education Georgetown’s Special Education Needs and Disabilities (SEND) Curriculum Training for students with moderate to profound ...

To obtain the first representative and valid population-based prevalence figures on visual impairment and blindness in adults with intellectual disabilities (ID) and to identify risk groups.