This paper describes an innovative institution, Capacitación y Desarrollo Integral AC (CADI - Comprehensive Training and Development), created in Mexico to develop evidence-based interventions grounded in the principles of inclusion, independence, social and health equity that promote the well-being of persons with intellectual developmental disorder older than 14 years.

We discuss the nature of intervention in developmental psychiatry and the implication of this for clinical trials. New ideas in the design of randomised trials for complex interventions, along with recent statistical advances in causal analysis, give such trials additional potential as a means by which to study the basic science of complex developmental disorders. The challenge for designers of...

Perspectives 387 Response to Bellini's (2007) Commentary on Lichten and Simon's (2007) " Defining Mental Retardation: A Matter of Life or Death " .

Williams Syndrome (WS) is a neurogenetic developmental disorder characterized by peaks and valleys of cognitive abilities. One peak that has been understudied is the affinity that many individuals with WS have toward music. It remains unknown whether their high levels of musical interest, skill and expressivity are related to their sociable personality or their verbal intelligence. We examined ...

The rates of problem behavior maintained by different reinforcers were evaluated across 3 preference assessment formats (i.e., paired stimulus, multiple-stimulus without replacement, and free operant). The experimenter administered each assessment format 5 times in a random order for 7 children with developmental disabilities whose problem behavior was maintained by attention, tangible items, o...

The vast majority of children and youth with chronic and complex health conditions who also have intellectual and developmental disabilities are cared for in their homes. Social, legal, policy, and medical changes through the years have allowed for an increase in needed support within the community. However, there continues to be a relatively small group of children who live in various types of...

Historically, people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) have experienced health disparities related to several factors including: a lack of access to high quality medical care, inadequate preparation of health care providers to meet their needs, the social determinants of health (e.g., poverty, race and gender), and the failure to include people with IDD in public health eff...

Learning to spell on the computer may lead to functionally useful writing skills. Alan and Suzy, teenagers with developmental disabilities, were already proficient on a variety of naming and matching tasks but had difficulties spelling; Suzy also made errors reading orally. In Experiment 1, computer teaching led to new anagram and written spelling performances. Suzy's reading also improved. On ...

OBJECTIVE To field test, in questionnaire format, the Functional Independence Measure for Children (WeeFIM, a schedule usually administered by interview) on parents of a cohort of school-aged children with Down syndrome. METHODS The parents of 211 Western Australian children with Down syndrome participated in the present study, representing 79.9% of all children with Down syndrome in the Stat...

142 Vol 45 (Supplement 1) 2014 Developmental and behavioral problems are relatively common conditions, with a prevalence of approximately 10%25% in general pediatric practice (Council on Children with Disabilities, 2006; Glascoe and Marks, 2011; Lipkin, 2011). in which early detection and appropriate management of such problems can lead to better developmental and behavioral outcomes in childre...