Adults with disabilities are not 'children in adults bodies' or 'mentally ...

Having age limits is not ableist or exclusionary, it is because an adult's needs, bodies and life experiences ARE NOT THE SAME as a child's and cannot hand- ...

What's My Age Again: Why Mental Age Theory Hurts People with ...

Most important, mental age is used to control freedoms and support: Outside the disability space, we understand that younger children usually ...

What becomes of developmentally disabled adults when they have ...

Most people believe that a huge percentage of people with developmental disabilities are extremely disabled. But in fact, 85% of people with ...

Mental Age Theory Hurts - Spectrum Life Magazine

That is called normalization theory which says the only way to allow people with IDD to be adults is to not allow them to do activities ...

Adults with Developmental Disabilities: A Comprehensive Approach ...

Persons with developmental disabilities can and do have sex, marry, and have children. ... They have a full range of sexual orientations. Gender ...

The Mental Health of People with Disabilities - CDC

Many people will experience a disability at some point during their lives. Disabilities limit how a child or adult functions. These limitations may include ...

Disabled not 'special needs': Experts explain why we shouldn't say it

In our daily lives, we may encounter phrases like "I am disabled" or "My child has special needs." And to someone who is not part of the ...

Working with adults with developmental disabilities

While study findings vary, broadly speaking, one third to one half of children and adults with IDD also meet criteria for at least one mental ...

About Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDDs) | NICHD

In some cases, the disorder may not be detected until the child is an adolescent or adult and starts to show symptoms or lose abilities.

Guide to Disability Rights Laws - ADA.gov

An individual with a disability is defined by the ADA as a person who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life ...

Sexuality and Adults with Developmental Disabilities

So often people with any kind of disability are frequently NOT included in decisions about their bodies, their education and their care. In addition, disability ...

What is Intellectual Disability? - American Psychiatric Association

Intellectual disability is identified by significant limitations in both intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior.

Why Adults with Developmental Disabilities Become Wards of the ...

Parents of adult children with an intellectual or developmental disability (I/DD) sometimes assume family will step in when they die. That's not always the ...

Disability and Health Overview - CDC

A disability is any condition of the body or mind (impairment) that makes it more difficult for the person with the condition to do certain activities.

Disability - World Health Organization (WHO)

Key facts · An estimated 1.3 billion people experience significant disability. · Some persons with disabilities die up to 20 years earlier than ...

Developmental disability - Wikipedia

Developmental disability is a diverse group of chronic conditions, comprising mental or physical impairments that arise before adulthood.

Lifelong Parenting of Adults With Developmental Disabilities - NCBI

Aging parents who co-resided with their adult child with disabilities were particularly vulnerable, experiencing a steeper increase in depressive symptoms and ...

Disabled People in the World: Facts and Figures - Inclusive City Maker

According to the World Health Organization (WHO) a disabled person is anyone who has “a problem in body function or structure, an activity ...

My child with disabilities is now an adult. How can I let go and still ...

For kids with disabilities or special needs, the path to adulthood is often different, and often harder. At age 22 there is a big cut-off, which ...

What a Jerk: Disability and the Right to Criticism - Home

People with disabilities are not innately warm or joyful, wise, kind or even friendly. We can be petulant little brats, or selfish and cruel.