As an educated person with some basic medical terminology training, I am lucky to have the health literacy to speak with—and understand—most of the professionals in my life. However, I am among the exception. In the U.S. population, 88% of adults have limited health literacy…

Megan Wilkinson, MA

Good nutrition is critical to every newborn child. However, babies with a cleft lip or cleft palate often experience feeding and nutritional challenges. Due to the clefts — or openings — in either their upper lip and/or the roof of their mouth (palate), the babies have trouble sucking milk from breasts or standard bottles.

By Katie Bazyluk & Sandy Gilbert

“I’m sorry to tell you but your son most likely will never graduate from high school, may never have a job, and will most likely have to live in assisted living for his adult life.” These were the words Greg and Jamie Ianni heard…

By Kyle Guerin

A long, long time ago (or as far back as I can remember) I wanted to be a doctor, though not fully understanding what that meant at the time. You see, there was no one, on either side of my family, who was a doctor in any branch of health care…

By Ben F. Warner, MS, DDS, MD

Janet LaBreck is a pioneer of change for people with disabilities. As the first African American Commissioner for both the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) and the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind, she overcame huge odds to become a trailblazing leader.

By Darryl Dieudonné, Managing Editor

I was diagnosed with high-functioning autism in 2002, when I was 4 years-old. At that time, there was not nearly as much knowledge, research, or understanding of disabilities as there is now.

By Reed Haber

As we learned in the first part of this article, clinical guidelines are “recommendations on how to diagnose and treat a medical condition.” For the majority of medical specialties, there are an abundant number of these that exist…

By Rick Rader, MD, Editor-In-Chief

It’s difficult to talk about death and dying — and even more so when we’re discussing a sensitive subject like euthanasia. In the healthcare world we have to normalize this conversation, especially for our patients with IDD…

By Seth Keller, MD, FAAN

This year, we want to highlight the contribution of an extraordinary woman of color who overcame odds to invent multiple devices that changed the disability community forever…

By Rick Rader, MD, Editor-In-Chief