Aims To provide an overview of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College Psychiatrists’ (RANZCP) work to improve support for those with intellectual or developmental disability. Methods People disability experience significantly higher rates physical mental health conditions in comparison general population. However, there can be multiple barriers effective care including, but not limited to...

To observe the clinical efficacy of TCM directed permeation combined with Jin's three-needle acupuncture in treatment insufficiency renal sperm intellectual and developmental disability. A total 84 children type disability were randomly divided into 42 patients group cases control group. The was treated directional cognitive training, while given only conventional training. Before after treatme...

Information on the rates and predictors of polypharmacy of central nervous system medication in older people with intellectual disability is limited, despite the increased life expectancy of this group. This study examined central nervous system medication use in an older sample of people with intellectual disability. Data regarding demographics, psychiatric diagnoses and current medications we...

By searching a clinical database of over 60,000 individuals referred for array-based CNV analyses and online resources, we identified four males from three families with intellectual disability, developmental delay, hypotonia, joint hypermobility and relative macrocephaly who carried small, overlapping deletions of Xp11.22. The maximum region of overlap between their deletions spanned ~430 kb a...

objective mental retardation (mr) or intellectual disability is one of three chronic and disabling neurological disorders of children and adolescents. its prevalence is estimated 1-3% of the population. mr is defined as significant sub-average intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior that become detectable before the age of 18. mr may come into view before 5 years as delay in at least two...

Genetic factors are responsible for up to 40% developmental disability cases, such as global developmental delay/intellectual disability (GDD/DI). The American and more recently the European guidelines on this group of diseases state that genetic testing is essential and should become a standardized diagnostic practice. The main arguments for the necessity of implementing such a practice are: (...

OBJECTIVES It is generally recognized that for all children the fulfilling of age-specific psychosocial developmental tasks in childhood is of great importance to adjustment in adult life, including participation in society. For young adults with JIA this is more difficult. We assume that the achievement of psychosocial milestones while growing up (psychosocial developmental trajectory) is also...

OBJECTIVE Follow-up studies in very preterm children usually present outcome for separate developmental domains. Presence of disabilities in more than one developmental domain will show a more serious outcome picture for extreme preterm infants and may be related to a different degree of perinatal problems. METHODS At 5.5 years corrected age, outcome in the neurological, motor, cognitive, and...

Developmental delay refers to children who experience significant variation in the achievement of expected milestones for their actual or adjusted age. Developmental delays are caused by poor birth outcomes, inadequate stimulation, malnutrition, chronic ill health and other organic problems, psychological and familial situations, and other environmental factors. While developmental delay may no...