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Art room project helps adults with intellectual disabilities in Wilkes-Barre
The Citizens' Voice· 7 days agoWILKES-BARRE — A community service project that started with creating a new art room for adults with...
Three volunteers that plan prom for residents with intellectual disabilities honored
The Uniontown Herald Standard· 3 days agoFor four years in a row three women have given residents in the county with intellectual disability...
Striking A Chord: How a music therapy program reunited two long-lost friends
ABC7 News· 24 hours agoJoann and Anthony were classmates at Elwyn School in the early 1990s, dating at one point and attending the prom together at 1994. Like most schoolmates of that age, they gradually lost contact ...
Beach Park man charged with sexually assaulting non-verbal, intellectually disabled woman
WFLD via Yahoo News· 1 day agoAlfredo De La Cruz | Lake County Sheirff's Office BEACH PARK, Ill. - A Beach Park man was charged...
Sen. Joey Hensley offers round-up of laws passed during legislative session
Gannett via AOL· 2 hours agoThe law increases the crime from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony. This law does not...
Does Your Patient Really Need a Guardian?
Medscape· 3 days agoA workshop highlighted the need for better clinician training in assessing the capacity of patients with intellectual disabilities.
Tarrant commissioners OK funding for court software to identify mental health issues
Fort Worth Star-Telegram McClatchy via AOL· 2 days agoThe Texas Criminal Code of Procedures states that a sheriff or municipal jailer must notify a...
Report: Convicted murderer Justin Thurber not intellectually disabled
KWCH· 6 days agoA report by the Courier-Traveler said that Justin Thurber, who was convicted 15 years ago for the...
Purple Alert issued for Duane Custer, last seen in Lakeland on Saturday
The Ledger via Yahoo News· 7 days agoHe was last known to be wearing a black shirt, blacks shorts with white lines and green/black shoes....
Heart of the High Plains: Special Olympics Texas
KAMR Amarillo· 4 days agoThe Special Olympics Texas Panhandle Area serves more than 600 children and adults with intellectual disabilities in 26 counties.