Intellectual disability is a disorder characterized by cognitive delays. Get the facts from WebMD about its symptoms, causes, and treatments.

From 2019 to 2021, rates of intellectual disability or autism spectrum disorder did not increase by a statistically significant amount. The report found 1.65% of children had an intellectual ...

Dr. Hakon Hakonarson, director of the Center for Applied Genomics at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, who was not involved in the study, said that because most cases of intellectual ...

What Are the Piaget Stages of Development? Piaget's stages of development are part of a theory about the phases of normal intellectual development from infancy through adulthood, including thought ...

"Diagnosing children with neurodevelopmental conditions like autism and intellectual disability can be a lengthy and frustrating process for families," said Julian Martinez, MD, Ph.D., associate ...

Intellectual disabilities are lifelong conditions that affect someone’s ability to develop, learn, and function at expected levels. Children with intellectual disabilities may develop more ...

Parents are being warned not to give their children a common over-the-counter allergy medication as it could cause hallucinations and intellectual disability.

We aim to determine long-term intellectual outcome of adolescents with early high-dose treated congenital hypothyroidism (CH). Sixty-three prospectively followed children with CH were assessed at ...