There are 9 million prisoners worldwide, but it is uncertain what proportion have intellectual disabilities. Such prisoners have been identified as a vulnerable group at risk of victimization and mental illness. Psychiatric surveys based on interviews of unselected prison populations were sought, involving diagnoses of intellectual disabilities. The search was performed by computer-assisted sea...

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...

OBJECTIVES This study examined the attitudes of senior residents in psychiatry toward persons with intellectual disabilities. Examining residents' attitudes will highlight areas of training that could be enhanced to better prepare psychiatrists to work with individuals with intellectual disabilities. METHOD A questionnaire was distributed to senior psychiatry residents at a Canada-wide prepar...

The World Health Organization has launched a program to promote Global Cooperation on Assistive Technology (GATE). The objective of the GATE program is to improve access to high quality, affordable assistive technology for people with varying disabilities, diseases, and age-related conditions. As a first step, GATE has developed the assistive products list, a list of priority assistive products...

OBJECTIVE This study investigates the effect of social and token economy reinforcements on academic achievement of 9th grade boy students with intellectual disabilities in an experimental science class in Tehran Province. METHOD The method used for this study was experimental by pre-test, post- test with a control group. The boy students with intellectual disabilities from three junior high s...

This research has the following purposes: 1) to find the efficiency of the selflearning activity set on development of skill in using fine motor of children with intellectual disabilities., 2) to compare the abilities to use the small muscles after the study more than before the study of children with intellectual disabilities, who made study with the self-learning activity on development of sm...