Is an intellectual disability a condition, or a number on an IQ test? Here's why an Alabama death penalty case at the Supreme ...

Can one number determine the destiny of access for millions of Americans with intellectual disabilities? This is what is at ...

U.S. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito appeared inclined to side with the state of Alabama during ...

The bizarre oral argument in Hamm v. Smith shows how decades of case law rooted in science is now under siege at the Supreme Court.

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

A proposal from the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services for changes to a Medicaid waiver allowing aging ...

Seth P. Waxman, Smith’s lawyer, told the justices that the lower federal courts in his client’s case correctly applied Alabama law, which allows judges to consider “evidence of intellectual ...

Seventy-five of Ohio’s 88 counties were designated as experiencing shortages in mental health care professionals as of July ...

The reaction to President Donald Trump’s recent social media post was immediate and telling. For many, the post was stunning in its cruelty, a line so clearly crossed it demanded condemnation. For ...

Through inclusive design, community programmes and shared purpose, Sunflower Hill in San Francisco, California is helping ...

Under H.R. 1, states must require that low-income people meet work-reporting requirements to qualify for Medicaid under the ...