READING, Pa. – The Berks County Commissioners on Thursday recognized March as Intellectual and Developmental Disability Month. Pam Seaman, the county’s administrator of mental health and developmental ...
Persons with mental and psychosocial disabilities represent a significant proportion of the world’s population. Millions of people worldwide have mental health conditions and an estimated one in four ...
Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs and Republican legislative leaders are locked in a political tug-of-war over a budgetary shortfall for programs that help people with developmental disabilities, and ...
Globally, people with disabilities have worse outcomes across a wide range of indicators, including poverty, employment, education, health, and violence. 1, 2 The Convention on the Rights of Persons ...
The onset and severity of disability – affecting either physical or mental health – profoundly impacts the lives of people and their families and incurs large economic and societal costs in terms of ...
Swenor is the founding director of the Johns Hopkins Disability Health Research Center. Landes is an associate professor of sociology and O’Hanley faculty scholar at Syracuse University. Hall is ...
Health Affairs Director of Health Equity Vabren Watts and Director of Digital Strategy Patti Sweet shared lessons for health policy content producers gleaned from the year-long publication process of ...
An inclusive morning meeting between students at a primary school and students from a school with disabilities in Western Kenya in 2018. An inclusive morning meeting between students at a primary ...