Maternal Intellectual or Developmental Disability and Newborn Discharge to Protective Services

Newborn Screening for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Intellectual and Developmental Disability: Healthcare Financing

1 The Resource Exchange, Colorado Springs, CO, USA 2 National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Jerusalem, Israel 3 Health Services, Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Jerusalem, Israel 4 Division of Pediatrics, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel 5 Kentucky Children’s Hospital, Univer...

The concept of intellectual disability, and people with intellectual disability in Corrective Services NSW

Within New South Wales there is a significant focus on people with intellectual disability who come into contact with the criminal justice system. In Corrective Services NSW there was initially an emphasis on identification of this population but more recently the focus has moved to increasing program options both within custody and in the community. The identification and provision of programs...

Delayed discharge from intellectual disability in-patient units

Aims and method We undertook a cross-sectional service evaluation of the reasons and extent of delay in the discharge process in an intellectual disability hospital over a 12-month period. Delays at each stage of the discharge process are also quantified in this study. Results We found that discharge was delayed for 29% of patients during the study period. The majority (78.5%) was due to awaiti...

Intellectual Disability and Dental Services: Experience from Israel

INTRODUCTION People with intellectual and developmental disability (IDD) have often been neglected by the dental profession, because of a variety of barriers, like insufficient professional knowledge and experience to treat this population, lack of cooperation by the person with IDD, lack of awareness by carers, inadequate facilities, and inadequate compensation for treating this population, wh...