USA Today

The pending Supreme Court decision that worries disability rights groups

WASHINGTON – Disability rights groups fear a death penalty case before the Supreme Court could have implications for the intellectually disabled far beyond the criminal context. The justices are ...
Reuters

US Supreme Court wrestles with death row inmate's intellectual disability ruling

WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court grappled on Wednesday with a bid by Alabama officials to pursue the execution of an inmate convicted of a 1997 murder who a lower court found to ...
The Hill

Supreme Court mulls intellectual disability limits in death penalty cases

The Supreme Court on Wednesday grappled with where the line should be drawn on intellectual disability when the death penalty is on the table in a case that could make it harder for convicted killers ...
The New York Times

Supreme Court Grapples With Death Penalty Case on Intellectual Disability

The case involves an Alabama man who challenged his death sentence after a murder conviction because of his varying results in a series of I.Q. tests. By Ann E. Marimow Reporting from Washington The ...
Star Tribune

Opinion | America is abandoning people with disabilities

For half a century, the U.S. has been achieving one of the most important civil rights victories most Americans have never heard of: closing the large institutions that once warehoused people with ...
Disability Scoop

Supreme Court To Hear Case On Intellectual Disability

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 ...
Mother Jones

Alabama Wants to Lower the Bar for Executing Disabled People—if SCOTUS Lets It

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Hamm v. Smith, a death ...
The Irish Times

Intellectual disability services under strain as private firms expand, care assistant says

The growing use by the HSE of private for profit for services in the area of intellectual disability is negatively impacting staff, undermining quality and shortchanging one of the most vulnerable ...
Forbes

Supporting Older Adults With Intellectual Disabilities: A Growing Imperative For Leaders

People with intellectual disabilities, such as those with Down syndrome or fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, have historically had shorter life expectancies than the general population, but data from a ...
Yale Environment 360

New initiative focuses on health care for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities

It all started with a manikin. When training her Yale School of Nursing (YSN) students in clinical skills, Christine Rodriguez will often use the human-shaped models in simulated health care ...
Fox 23

Proposed federal Medicaid cuts may impact adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities

OWASSO, Okla. — A New Leaf said that new, proposed cuts to federal Medicaid may impact people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. They said access to community-based services like the ...