Supported living for people with developmental disabilities challenges many common service policies, practices, and assumptions. Until recently, professionals assumed that such people who did not reside with their families needed to live in some kind of service facility. Today, a growing number of people with developmental disabilities have challenged this assumption by living, with personalize...

The present study tested whether parents caring for children with developmental disabilities would have higher blood pressure compared to parents of typically developing children (controls). It also examined the psychosocial factors underlying this observation. Thirty-five parents of children with developmental disability and thirty controls completed standard measures of perceived stress, chil...

that extend well beyond our conception of normal and disordered musical processing. It provides a model that can be used to ask how potential changes at the genetic level impact upon brain structure function and, ultimately, behaviour. If amusia can be thought of as a disorder of connectivity, one might hypothesize that those genes which encode fibre tracking proteins will be found to be atypic...

Three adult male sex offenders with developmental disabilities participated in phallometric assessments that involved repeated measures of arousal when exposed to various stimuli. Arousal assessment outcomes were similar to those obtained by Reyes et al. (2006). Additional data-analysis methods provided further information about sexual preferences, thus replicating and extending previous resear...

Right handedness is one of the most prominent markers of human functional brain asymmetry. Deviation from this norm appears to be associated with certain developmental disorders. While many studies have dealt with the genetic contribution to the determination of handedness, few have examined whether environmental factors that are subtler than forced hand switching can modulate the development o...

Developmental examination is part of the process of identifying children at risk of poor developmental outcomes. Development is a rapidly changing process with large variations within the population and for the same child, which limits the sensitivity and specificity of any examination method. There is now a good body of scientific knowledge and an evidence base for improving the examination me...

The purpose of the study was to examine the accuracy of pedometer steps and activity time (Walk4Life, WL) for youth with developmental disabilities. Eighteen youth (11 girls, 7 boys) 4-14 years completed six 80-meter self-paced walking trials while wearing a pedometer at five waist locations (front right, front left, back right, back left, middle back). Trials were video taped to determine actu...