Accessible summary: "Learning disability" replaced the outdated term, "mentally handicapped" in the UK over 20years ago. Recently, some services and professionals have been using the term "intellectual disability" instead. In America, "intellectual disability" has been chosen to replace the old ...
Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 26, 339-344.Chan, J, Sigafoos, J, Watego, N & Potter, G 2001, `Adults with intellectual disability in long-term respite care: a qualitative study', Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 339-344....
Adaptive behaviors are skills that are learned in daily life and from interactions with the environment and other people. These included basic social skills, learning, and the behaviors that occur in day to day life. Someone with an intellectual disability can have difficulty with these behaviors ...
However, it is no longer a standard to classify intellectual disability by IQ score alone. For instance, if an individual has an IQ below 70 but has a good adaptive function, the subject does not have an intellectual disability. On the other side, individuals with a normal or even higher ...
term and long-term psychometric consistency of the ADOS-2 CCSs and classification assignments in individuals with FXS and individuals with DS with an intellectual disability between the ages of 6 and 23 years. Specifically, we examined the short-term consistency of the ADOS-2 scores to provide ...
The purpose of the present study was to compare the long-term efficacy of zonisamide in the treatment of epilepsy in children with intellectual disability (ID) with those with normal intelligence (NI). One hundred and thirty children (74 ID, 56 NI) were included in the study. Fifteen of ...
An intelligence test score of {eq}85 {/eq} or lower is an indication of an intellectual disability. Is the statement true or false? Intellectual Disability: Intellectual disability (ID) is a recognized neurodevelopmental disorder that has three m...
Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities in the field of intellectual and developmental disability. GJIDD journal is an open access peer reviewed scientific journal focused towards publishing a complete and reliable source of information orig
Intellectual disability in neuromuscular diseases is often associated with behavioural disorders and may be correlated with abnormal brain imaging. Conversely, brain involvement can sometimes be seen without intellectual disability, but may be associated with an epilepsy risk and is helpful for the ...
Long-term follow-up and degree of sus- taining the intervention are needed in future studies. Abbreviations CI: Confidence interval; CMA: Comprehensive Meta-Analysis; DSM-V: The fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; ID: Intellectual disability; PICOS: ...