Adults with disabilities who reported adverse health-related characteristics (e.g., cigarette smoking, physical inactivity, insufficient sleep, obesity, or depressive disorders) or an unmet health ...

Researchers have explored the characteristics of people with disabilities who have achieved success in the workplace. The employment gap was found to be smaller among women, married people, ...

Despite decompression surgery being a widespread intervention for patients with dorsopathies (i.e. back pain) affecting the lumbar spine, the scientific knowledge on patterns and characteristics of ...

Each intellectually disabled person presents with different types of characteristics, based on the severity of the retardation, adaptive skills and other co-existing disorders. The characteristics of ...

Aging can be defined as the process of growing older. People growing older with long-standing disabilities are said to “age with disability,” whereas people who do not experience disability until ...

Women with disabilities experience elevated risk for adverse pregnancy outcomes. Most studies have inferred disabilities from diagnosis codes, likely undercounting disabilities. We analyzed data, ...

Intellectual disability is a developmental delay that is significantly below average compared to peers, in terms of intelligence and adaptive skills. The American Association on Intellectual and ...

A new University study suggests that psychosocial problems associated with disabilities serve as risk factors for bullying and victimization. The study focused on psychosocial factors, such as ...

The city of Philadelphia is using census data and mapping technology to paint a clearer picture of where differently abled people live in the city. The first publicly accessible iteration of the map, ...

Few studies have examined the association between disability and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). We compared the trends in the annual COPD prevalence between people with and without ...

Our Developmental Disorders Concentration (DD) prepares you to serve K-12 students in a variety of educational settings addressing mild, moderate, and severe needs who have been identified with ...