Intellectual Disability and Parenthood [PDF]
The Scientific World JOURNAL, 2005 Parenthood in persons with intellectual disability (ID) is an issue of concern for the family, guardians, and professionals as there are many sentiments and problems involved: financial, technical, medical, legal, and above all moral. People with intellectual, developmental, or other disabilities have feelings, want relationships, and are able to have ...
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Assessing the accuracy of the WISC-IV seven-subtest short form and the child and adolescent intellectual disability screening questionnaire in identifying intellectual disability in children [PDF]
, 2014 Little research has been conducted into the accuracy of abbreviated assessments in identifying children and young people with an intellectual disability (ID).
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Comorbid Intellectual Disability [PDF]
Deutsches Ärzteblatt international, 2014 The article by Lehnhardt and colleagues successfully links empirically based facts with the authors' own clinical experiences from a specialized outpatient clinic for people with high-functioning autism; it can therefore be used as a practice guideline for the diagnostic evaluation of adults with suspicion of autism spectrum disorders (1).
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How can psychiatrists make mental health services more accessible for people with autism?
BJPsych Open, 2021 Unrecognised psychiatric and medical conditions can lead poorer health outcomes, lower health-related quality of life and increased mortality in people with autism, compared with the general population.
Ashok Roy
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Stigma, Social Comparison and Self-Esteem in Adults with an Intellectual Disability [PDF]
, 2012 Background: The paper examines the perception of stigma in 43 adults with an intellectual disability, the relationship this has with their psychological well-being and whether the process of social comparison has a moderating effect on this relationship.
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The Validity of the Child and Adolescent Intellectual Disability Screening Questionnaire (CAIDS-Q) with children aged 6–7 years, 11 months: A brief report [PDF]
, 2013 We examined the performance of the Child and Adolescent Intellectual Disability Screening Questionnaire with 103 young children aged 6–7 years, 11 months referred to mental health services.
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Commentary: The origins of intellectual disability [PDF]
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2022 Despite the importance and prevalence of intellectual disability (ID), its origins have not been well understood until now. Lichtenstein et al. report in this issue findings from a population‐based sample four times larger than all previous family studies of ID put together (Lichtenstein et al., 2022).
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Current and future roles of intellectual disability nurses [PDF]
, 2023 Within the arena of an ever-changing context of health and social care that is dictated by political imperatives at policy level, both nationally and internationally, and with the ever-growing move toward citizenship, and the importance of human rights ...
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Should we add visual acuity ratios to referral criteria for potential cerebral visual impairment?
Journal of Optometry, 2017 Purpose: To determine whether the assessment of visual acuity ratios might improve the referral of children with (sub)normal visual acuity but at risk of cerebral visual impairment.
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Designing with and for People with Intellectual Disabilities
Proceedings of the 24th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, 2022 People with intellectual disabilities often experience inequalities that affect the standard of their everyday lives. Assistive technologies can help alleviate some of these inequalities, yet abandonment rates remain high. This is in part due to a lack of involvement of all stakeholders in their design and evaluation, thus resulting in outputs that do ...
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