( 2006 ), “ Young adults with learning disabilities: a study of psychosocial functioning at transition to adult services ”, Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology , Vol. 48, pp. 195 - 9 . [] , []Brien, G. (2006). Yong adults with learning disabilities: A study of psychosocial ...
The self-advocacy movement has provided avenues for young adults with learning disabilities to speak up their needs, but not to manage conflicts among themselves. This study seeks to understand the practicality of peer mediation for conflict resolution using self-advocacy skills by young adults with ...
Eleven young adults with an intellectual disability were interviewed for this exploratory study aimed at charting their experiences of growing up in homes where at least one parent had the same or a similar disability. Two main themes emerged from the interviews. Firstly, a clear majority of the...
young aduIts with severe learning disabilities using the MTI photoscreener PATRICK WATTS, KAREN WALKER ' LYNBECK Abstract Purpose To test the potential ability of the MTI photoscreener to facilitate screening for significant refractive errors in children and young adults with severe learning disabilities...
Prevalence of psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents with and without intellectual disability. J Intellect Dev Disabil. 2003;47:51-58Google Scholar 16. Gustafsson C, Sonnander K. Occurrence of mental health problems in Swedish samples of adults with intellectual disabilities. Soc ...
Unwin, G; LeMesurier, N; Bathia, N; Deb, S 2008: Transition for adolescents and young adults with learning disabilities and mental health problems/challenging behaviours: the parent carers' views Advances in Mental Health and Learning Disabilities 2(1): 22-28 Chou, Y.-C.; Chiao, C.; Fu...
Introduction: Literature to date describes people with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities (PMLD) as pre-linguistic. In contrast, this study explores the existence and use of meaningful sub vocal (SV) language by twenty PMLD participants.Method: The SV utterances of 20 PMLD participants were...
hospitality work and training is represented in the popular television documentary series The Special Needs Hotel as it relates to training for young adults with learning disabilities1 – a group who are rendered more marginalised in employment than any other group of young people with disabilities. ...
Post-secondary education (PSE) is an important option in the educational and employment paths of students with intellectual disabilities (ID). However, PSE for young adults with ID is not in wide use across the world. Different issues might affect the geographical spread of PSE programmes. Some...
Young adults with learning disabilities: A study of psychosocial functioning at transition to adult services A study of the psychosocial functioning of young adults with a history of learning disability (LD) in childhood is reported. The design was a non-clinic co... G O'Brien - 《Developmental...