Yes, your child can and should attend school. By law schools in the US must address the educational needs of children with disabilities from birth (usually through early intervention programs) to age 21 (some states…

Therapy usually refers to specific interventions for the particular delay being treated by a professional trained to address the specific delay. Therapists will work with your child to build on what your child can already…

Developmental disability usually refers to difficulty with age appropriate activities of daily living.In children, these are often called delays rather than disabilities. In infants, developmental delay/disability usually means not meeting developmental milestones at age appropriate…

In the US school setting, intellectual disabilities are still referred to as mental retardation, though the federal government is working to change that with a law. It is one of 13 categories of disability under…

All children with Costello syndrome have at least some type of delay.