Two years after the Food and Drug Administration proposed a ban on the use of electric shock devices to address behavior ...

May is Mental Health Awareness Month—a time to highlight the importance of emotional well‑being for individuals and families.

One of the most crucial things a family can do to care for a loved one with a disability is estate planning. The process offers opportunities to plan for today and the future that can enhance the ...

The pandemic has revealed some truths: A lack of mental health providers to sufficiently meet the needs of those in crisis (including providers of color); and the stress that COVID-19 has introduced ...

Intellectual or developmental disability, known as IDD, affects approximately 7.39 million people in the United States, according to a 2019 estimate by the University of Minnesota. Typically present ...

Emotional Support Animals or ESAs are a category of animals that may provide necessary emotional support to an individual with a mental or psychiatric disability that alleviates one or more identified ...

Although autism is increasingly diagnosed during adolescence and young adulthood, diagnostic frameworks, tools, and neurobiological evidence have been ...

Why do we study anxiety as a multi-faceted construct? Does it matter to our phenomenology, how we experience this emotion, and how we behave? This begs the question: What matters most in the study of ...

PITT COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) - A therapeutic horseback riding center in Pitt County is raising awareness of equine-assisted therapy for individuals with developmental disabilities. Rocking Horse Ranch ...

As a licensed and certified school psychologist, I am trained to administer psychological assessments to identify giftedness, learning disorders , emotional and behavioral disorders, Aspergers/Autism, ...