Individuals with an intellectual disability have neurodevelopmental deficits characterized by limitations in intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior. These disabilities originate at birth and ...

Correspondence to Dr Claire Kerr, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT9 7BL, UK; c.kerr{at}qub.ac.uk Background Cerebral palsy (CP) is a non-progressive disorder of ...

Introduction People with intellectual disability suffer from poorer health outcomes compared with the general population. Some of these inequalities are driven by systematic neglect of the healthcare ...

Objective To identify factors acting as barriers or enablers to the process of healthcare consent for people with intellectual disability and to understand how to make this process equitable and ...

In 2025, Georgia enacted a landmark reform that lowers the burden of proof for intellectual disability in death penalty cases ...

There is a great deal of stigma surrounding people with intellectual disability. This can result in discriminatory actions and attitudes towards people with intellectual disability on both a personal ...

Richard Hastings receives funding from Cerebra and several government health research funders in the UK. He is affiliated with the charities Mencap, Sibs, Cerebra, and Ambitious about Autism. Bruce ...

When Maureen McIlquham's daughter Michelle was discharged from hospital on a cool autumn night in 2009, she never imagined the 28-year-old would be dead in the family home just hours later. Study ...

Design Scoping review using Arksey and O’Malley approach. Data sources Six databases (PsycINFO, CINAHL, Medline, Academic Search Complete, Scopus, Embase) were searched along with a web-based search ...