Cancer prevention has been identified as the most cost-effective strategy for cancer control. This should extend to all groups including women with intellectual disability, seeking to access breast cancer screening. The purpose of this study was to explore the role of healthcare professionals, such as primary healthcare staff (n= 8) and breast care staff (n= 10), on supporting women with intell...

The current experiment investigated the extent to which three variables (autism severity, nonverbal intellectual functioning, and verbal intellectual functioning) are associated with over-selective responding in a group of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. This paper also analyzed the association of these three variables with the recovery of responding to a previously under-selected stimu...

In the past decade, new models have emerged with respect to the constructs of (intellectual) disability, quality of life, and supports. These models have implications both for understanding the underlying phenomena as for validating professional practices. The authors describe the context and key components of models of human functioning (American Association on Intellectual and Development Dis...

PURPOSE The purpose of our study is to describe intellectual functioning in three common childhood epilepsy syndromes - frontal lobe epilepsy (FLE), childhood absence epilepsy (CAE) and benign epilepsy with centro-temporal spikes (BECTS). And also to determine the influence of epilepsy related variables, type of epilepsy, age at epilepsy onset, duration and frequency of epilepsy, and treatment ...

The aim of this study was to compare the long-term consequences of refractory epileptic seizures for intellectual functioning in pediatric and adult patients, taking the severity of the epilepsy into consideration. Thirty-four patients, 17 children (mean age 10.2 years) and 17 adults (mean age 24.4 years) were tested twice with the age-appropriate version of Wechsler's Intelligence Scales. The ...

BACKGROUND Pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration (PKAN), an extremely rare autosomal recessive disorder resulting in iron accumulation in the brain, has a diverse phenotypic expression. Based on limited case studies of one or two patients, intellectual impairment is considered part of PKAN. Investigations of cognitive functioning have utilized specific neuropsychological tests, witho...

Advances in gene discovery methodologies and the analysis of samples from large cohorts of families have rapidly increased our knowledge of the number of genes that cause mental retardation. To date, over 80 genes on the X chromosome have been identified where a mutation results in a syndromic or non-syndromic form of the disease. Although the X chromosome may harbour a disproportionate number ...