A House bill that would require people convicted in death-penalty cases to submit evidence of an IQ below 75 to claim an intellectual disability defense advanced in a committee last week after ...

Intellectual disability causes significant limitations to a person’s intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior. Intellectual disability is also sometimes known as cognitive disability. An ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in a case that advocates say could have major implications for how intellectual disability is defined. The high court will consider Hamm v. Smith on ...

Intellectual disability is a disorder marked by below-average intellectual function and a lack of skills necessary for independent daily living. The condition begins in the developmental period. The ...

The US Supreme Court will hear Hamm v. Smith on Wednesday, December 10, a death penalty case testing how courts should treat multiple IQ scores when deciding whether a death-row prisoner is ...

University of Iowa professors are using fruit flies to identify what genes cause intellectual disability, a common and often lifelong condition that limits people’s intellectual function and social ...

What are intellectual and developmental disabilities? Intellectual disability is a disability characterized by significant limitations in both intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior, which ...

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

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 ...