An Arizona man, who admitted to setting his two-year-old daughter on fire with gasoline in 1999, has died in jail. Shawn Ryan ...

In a recent speech, Nancy Ward talks about her first venture into political advocacy for other people with mental retardation. In the 1980s, with a group called People First of Nebraska ...

Despite decades of research, mental retardation remains an amorphous concept defined not in black and white but in ever-changing shades of gray. As recently as 40 years ago, the condition was ...

A majority of mental retardation occurred by chance; by novel mutations in the genetic code of the children. It is expected that approximately 1,000 of all 20,000 genes can cause mental retardation.

Twelve years after banning the execution of the "mentally retarded," the U.S. Supreme Court is examining the question of who qualifies as having mental retardation, for purposes of capital cases ...

Florida, like nine other states (Arkansas, Delaware, Idaho, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Washington), uses 70 as its cutoff for establishing mental retardation.

These flaws are magnified when the defendant has mental retardation. By virtue of their disability, people with mental retardation are even less likely than other defendants to be able to protect ...

In general they encounter little difficulty although a small but significant number have mental retardation. In 1956 Dine 6 found congenital methemoglobinemia in 2 brothers, 1 of whom had mental ...

On the well-groomed campus where many Houstonians with mental retardation work, play and live, the mood has changed dramatically since the time, just months ago, when the facility was fighting for ...