The prevalence of intellectual disabilities, which means difficulties with learning and understanding new things, is roughly 1-2% in the population. People with a severe intellectual disability need ...

According to the Cleveland Clinic, Fragile X syndrome is the most common inherited cause of intellectual disability ...

The study covered in this summary was published on SSRN.com as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed. Children with developmental delay associated with a genetic variant are at increased risk ...

Fragile X syndrome, the most common form of inherited intellectual disability, may be unfolding in brain cells even before birth, despite typically going undiagnosed until age 3 or later. A new study ...

Intellectual disability is most often caused by changes to the genome that take place in early fetal development and are not found in the parents’ DNA. This is why the risk of recurrence in the next ...

A major study of children with intellectual disabilities has highlighted the additional challenges that they often face, including a much-increased likelihood of being diagnosed as autistic, as well ...

Intellectual disabilities affect a child’s ability to learn and function at levels considered typical for their age. Learning disabilities affect a child’s ability to master specific skills, like ...

People with intellectual disabilities, such as those with Down syndrome or fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, have historically had shorter life expectancies than the general population, but data from a ...