For families facing devastating diagnoses, months of waiting for disability benefits can add financial strain to an already overwhelming situation. The Social Security Administration has added 14 rare ...

A global research collaboration has revealed a hidden cause of a rare intellectual disorder associated with severe language delay, epileptic seizures, motor impairment and brain abnormalities. The ...

I was born with a rare disorder you have almost certainly never heard of, Moebius syndrome. This means I have facial paralysis and limited lateral eye movement. Moebius syndrome is highly visible but ...

Some disease names sound like they belong in a medical textbook no one wants to open. But for families dealing with one of the 14 rare, serious conditions newly added to Social Security’s fast-track ...

A Buffalo family is showing what is possible when parents use their skills to improve outcomes for their children with disabilities. Soo-Kyung Lee, and her husband, Jae Lee, were both scientists ...

A new national study reveals that most Medicaid-enrolled children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or intellectual disability (ID) are not receiving recommended genetic testing despite clinical ...

It is time to move beyond the binary and embrace a more nuanced framework: the disability observability spectrum.