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...

While it is increasingly possible to envision "perfect" babies, it is not always the case that reproduction actually proceeds according to individual will; for example, there has been no recent reduction in rates of childhood disability. Nevertheless, in most studies of new reproductive technologies, the birth of those children whom few would actively choose-"defective" or disabled infants-is p...

Adults with intellectual/developmental disability (IDD), and their occupational participation, are vastly under-represented in Hollywood films. Because films often provide individuals’ only experience of people with IDD, cinematic representations can influence audience perceptions. Thus, films can help inform public perceptions about desired and appropriate occupational participation for people...

BACKGROUND This study examined the predictors, mediators and moderators of parent stress in families of preschool-aged children with developmental disability. METHOD One hundred and five mothers of preschool-aged children with developmental disability completed assessment measures addressing the key variables. RESULTS Analyses demonstrated that the difficulty parents experienced in completi...

A septum pellucidum cyst is defined as a fluid collection between the lateral ventricles whose walls have curvature and are separated by 10 mm or more . Most of these cysts benign their clinical significance should be considered neurodevelopmental anomaly that may contribute to neuropsychiatric abnormalities It often incidental finding, little significance. However, an association this developm...

Approximately 3% of the population has some degree of intellectual disability. Sex offenders with identified intellectual disabilities appear overrepresented in the charged and imprisoned population of sexual offenders. Statistics range from 15% to 33% (Shapiro, 1986; Steiner, 1984). Day (see 1994) cautions that the prevalence rate may actually be higher because it does not account for those pe...

The sibling relationship constitutes the longest lasting family tie, beginning with the birth of the younger sibling and ending with the death of one member of the sibling pair. Siblings share a common family heritage, both genetically and experientially, and perhaps for this reason, the sibling relationship is normatively characterized as egalitarian, reciprocal, and mutual. How is the sibling...