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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Seventeen percent of Philadelphia residents live with some form of disability, and the city’s Disability Characteristics Map makes data on where those people live readily available, informing decision ...

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 ...