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Direct linkWai Man Raymond Chan; Ritesh Bhandarkar – Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2025
Background: Suicidality in individuals with intellectual disability is a critical but under-researched area. This systematic review aims to synthesize existing literature on the prevalence, risk factors, and interventions for suicidality among individuals with intellectual disability. Methods: Adhering to the PRISMA guidelines, a comprehensive…
Descriptors: Suicide, Intellectual Disability, At Risk Persons, Mental Disorders
Ting-Yu Chueh; Jia-Hao Wu; Wei-Kang Hung; Cheng-Chen Pan; Chien-Chih Chou; Chung-Ju Huang; Chien-Ting Wu – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2025
Background: Individuals with intellectual disabilities (ID) typically exhibit cognitive deficits. While single bouts of physical activity (PA) have shown cognitive benefits in typically developing individuals, the effects on those with ID are unclear. This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of single bouts of PA on cognition in…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Physical Activity Level, Program Effectiveness, Physical Activities
Cristan Farmer; Audrey Thurm; Tanvi Das; E. Martina Bebin; Jonathan A. Bernstein; Elizabeth Berry-Kravis; Joseph D. Buxbaum; Charis Eng; Thomas Frazier; Antonio Y. Hardan; Alexander Kolevzon; Darcy A. Krueger; Julian A. Martinez-Agosto; Hope Northrup; Craig M. Powell; Latha Valluripalli Soorya; Joyce Y. Wu; Mustafa Sahin – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2025
Developmental domains, such as cognitive, language, and motor, are key concepts of interest in longitudinal studies of intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Normative scores (e.g., IQ) are often used to operationalize performance on standardized tests of these concepts, but it is the interval-distributed person-ability scores that are…
Descriptors: Cognitive Tests, Intelligence Tests, Cognitive Ability, Intellectual Disability
Peiling Kong; Susan Collings; Margaret Spencer – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2025
Background: Parental intellectual disability is considered a risk factor for child removal internationally. In New South Wales, Australia, authorised clinicians are court appointed experts who assess parenting and cognitive capacity in child protection matters. Method: This study examined a sample of 20 assessment orders requesting parenting…
Descriptors: Parents with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Cognitive Ability, Child Welfare
Rafi, Faiza; Maricle, Denise E. – Communique, 2023
Down syndrome is one of the leading causes of intellectual disability, and individuals with Down syndrome experience various health issues including learning and memory deficits, congenital heart diseases, Alzheimer's or other dementias, leukemia, cancers, and Hirschsprung disease. School psychologists have a vital role in the success of students…
Descriptors: School Psychologists, School Psychology, Down Syndrome, Students with Disabilities
Melissa Stoffers; Sarah Curtiss – Remedial and Special Education, 2025
Although individuals with intellectual disability need sex education, little is known about the instructional practices of sex educators. To fill this gap and explore how instruction is appropriate and applicable to individuals with intellectual disability, we interviewed 58 U.S. sex educators about their instruction. Using thematic analysis, we…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Teaching Methods, Students with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability
Download full textNational Center on Deaf-Blindness, 2022
This brief, co-produced by the National Center on Deaf-Blindness (NCDB) and Accessible Teaching, Learning, and Assessment Systems (ATLAS), provides important information about the differences between students with significant cognitive disabilities who have cortical visual impairment (CVI) and those who have other types of visual impairment (VI).…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Visual Impairments, Severe Disabilities, Multiple Disabilities
Condy, Emma E.; Becker, Lindsey; Farmer, Cristan; Kaat, Aaron J.; Chlebowski, Colby; Kozel, Beth A.; Thurm, Audrey – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2022
The NIH Toolbox Cognition Battery (NIHTB-CB) was developed for epidemiological and longitudinal studies across a wide age span. Such a tool may be useful for intervention trials in conditions characterized by intellectual disability (ID), such as Williams syndrome (WS). Three NIHTB-CB tasks, including two executive functioning (Flanker,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Tests, Intellectual Disability, Students with Disabilities, Intervention
Delaquis, Breanna – BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 2020
Educators will be tasked with planning for children with many different needs. The aim of this article is to provide specific information about Rubinstein-Taybi Syndrome (RTS) to those who may be interested. This syndrome is rare and has not been well researched. This article contains information about the physical, cognitive, and developmental…
Descriptors: Genetic Disorders, Students with Disabilities, Student Needs, Individual Characteristics
Tahir, Munazza; Cobigo, Virginie – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2023
Background: Qualitative research using published court records to examine contextual factors that contribute to child protection decisions in cases involving parents with intellectual disabilities is limited, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Method: The present study conducted qualitative content analysis on 10 published Ontario court…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Child Safety, COVID-19, Pandemics
Veronica Pucci; Annalisa La Face; Barbara Gasteiger-Klicpera; Sara Mondini – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2024
Background: Cognitive reserve (CR) has not been studied in people with Intellectual Developmental Disability, a population with a high incidence of dementia. Commonly adopted CR proxies should be adapted to reflect more specifically the experiences of people with Intellectual Developmental Disability. Method: This scoping review intended to…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Ability, Barriers
Kimberly Greenberg; Brice Hounshel; Luke Kalb; Ariel Schwartz – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2024
Background: We evaluated cognitive accessibility of the VIA Inventory of Strengths Youth short form with adults with intellectual disability for use in strengths-based practice. Methods: We conducted cognitive testing with adults with intellectual disability (n = 33; M age = 36.2; range: 20.4-64.2). Data were coded for the extent to which (1)…
Descriptors: Adults, Intellectual Disability, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Ability
Carlson, Licia – Philosophical Inquiry in Education, 2021
This article explores what it means to include intellectual disability (ID) in philosophical discourse and in the philosophy classroom. Taking Audre Lorde's claim that "the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house" as a starting point, it asks how certain forms of cognitive ableism have excluded ID from the…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Transformative Learning, Philosophy, Social Bias
Karen Grabowski; Robert Morgan; Faith Scanlon – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2024
Intellectual functioning impacts defendants' competence to stand trial, though research on this population remains limited. This study replicated and advanced prior work, focusing on defendants' demographic, clinical, cognitive, and criminal justice variables and their association with length of hospitalization and restoration determinations.…
Descriptors: Intelligence Quotient, Intelligence Differences, Intellectual Disability, Court Litigation
Ye, Jun-yan; Qin, Xiao-jing; Cui, Ji-fang; Ren, Qian; Jia, Lu-xia; Wang, Ya; Pantelis, Christos; Chan, Raymond C. K. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2023
Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are associated with cognitive dysfunctions, including mental time travel (MTT). However, findings on diminished MTT ability may be confounded by a number of factors, including the individuals' language ability, factors related to the MTT task and the demographic factors of participants. The present study provided a…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Cognitive Processes, Time Perspective, Cognitive Ability
