BACKGROUND Psychotropic medications are frequently used to treat challenging behaviour in children with intellectual disabilities, despite a lack of evidence for their efficacy. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to determine the safety and efficacy of pharmacological interventions for challenging behaviour among children with intellectual disabilities. METHODS Electronic database...

Research has shown that, compared with non-disabled youths who commit offenses, those with intellectual and developmental disabilities tend to commit more serious offenses, are at a much higher risk of secondand third-time offending, and enter the juvenile justice system at a younger age (Zhang et al. 2011). Youths with intellectual and developmental disabilities are also more likely to become ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the ability of children with intellectual disabilities to give reliable accounts of personally experienced events, considering the effects of delay, severity of disability, and the types of interview prompt used. METHOD In a between-subjects design, we compared children with intellectual disabilities (7-12 years) that fell in either the mild-borderline range (n = 46) or t...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of aquatic exercise and CES treatment on the cognitive function by using K-WAB and BDNF, IGF-1, and VEGF of persons with intellectual disabilities. METHODS All subjects were 15 male with intellectual disabilities who were participating in the aquatic training program and CES treatment during 12 weeks at rehabilitation center. Th...

Aims: The effect of periodic biannual oral care under ambulatory general anesthesia for patients with intellectual disabilities who are markedly uncooperative undergo. Methods: The details of dental procedures were compared retrospectively between the cure group (58 patients with intellectual disabilities who visited our hospital after the appearance of a symptom such as pain) and the care grou...

Approximately one third of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities have emotion dysregulation and challenging behaviors (CBs). Although research has not yet confirmed that existing treatments adequately reduce CBs in this population, dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) holds promise, as it has been shown to effectively reduce CBs in other emotionally dysregulated populations. Thi...

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of starup circuit exercise program on derivatives reactive oxygen metabolite (d-ROM) and biological antioxidant potential (BAP) levels and physical fitness of adolescents with intellectual disabilities, and to sugesst exercise programs to promote the health and physical development of such adolescents. Twelve students with intellectual disabil...

The aim of this study was to examine the intervention effect of repeated retrieval with touching the area of selfbody on the performance of human figure drawing in preschool children with mild intellectual disabilities. Especially, this study applied the retrieval practice task to improve the performance of drawing in preschool children. In the intervention group, firstly, children with/without...

Several studies state that there might be a difference in the physical development and the motor performance of the mentally non-handicapped children and those with intellectual and development disabilities. The aim of our research was to compare the two groups from these aspects. The study included the assessment of the physical development and motor performance of altogether 225 primary schoo...