Conversations about the health disparities facing people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and disorders, and how to combat them, are long overdue. More
Conversations about the health disparities facing people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and disorders, and how to combat them, are long overdue. More
It is critical that the entire I/DD population gains access to priority vaccines, writes developmental psychologist Emily Hotez. More
First comes the disease. Then the scapegoating. Whether it’s Ebola, cholera and now COVID-19, Jesse Verschuere has witnessed “a pattern of stigma against others in every disease outbreak” he has responded to as part of the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders. The objects of prejudice have included health-care More
A sample of research exploring: network modeling in psychopathology; religion and depression; stigma, emotion regulation, and mental health; auditory adaption in children with autism; and general factors of psychopathology, personality, and personality disorder. More
In ancient Greek and Latin, a stigma was a brand that marked a person, such as a slave, who was seen as inferior. Today, the word “stigma” has come to signify the invisible mark made by negative social perceptions, a mark that can hurt just as much as a physical More
A sample of new research exploring statistical learning in speech segmentation and links between weight-related perceptions and long-term health outcomes. More