BACKGROUND Social gradients and ethnic disparities have been reported in some forms of intellectual and developmental disabilities. However, information on the association between area deprivation, ethnicity and other forms of intellectual and developmental disabilities are inconclusive. AIM To estimate the independent association between household disadvantage, local area deprivation, ethnic...

Two men with intellectual disabilities initially demonstrated intermediate accuracy in two-choice matching-to-sample (MTS) procedures. A printed-letter identity MTS procedure was used with 1 participant, and a spoken-to-printed-word MTS procedure was used with the other participant. Errors decreased substantially under a delayed-sample procedure, in which the choice stimuli were presented first...

The impact of the Self-Determined Career Development Model (hereafter called the Self-Determined Career Model) on the job performance of four adults with moderate intellectual disability employed in competitive work settings was examined. Employees learned to set work-related goals, develop an action plan, implement the plan, and adjust their goals and plans as needed. A multiple baseline desig...

abstract background: it is predicted that over the next 30 years, there will be a significant increase in the number of elderly parents who care for their children with intellectual disability. this paper is part of a larger qualitative study which investigated the unpleasant experiences of these parents. materials and methods: a phenomenological approach was adopted and data were collected thr...

objective: the present study aimed to determine the effectiveness of group triple-p on the relationships of mother-child with id (intellectual disability).  methods: in this semi-experimental study with pretest and posttest design by control group, parent-child relationship scale (pcrs) was determined in 40 random clustering selected mothers of children with id before and after the intervention...

Intellectual disability (ID) is defined by significant limitations in intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior with an age of onset being less than 18 years. The prevalence of intellectual disability/developmental delay is 1 – 3 % in the general population. The definition of mental retardation/intellectual disability Shift from ‘Mental retardation’ to ‘Intellectual disability’ in the 2002...