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Social Status of Students with Intellectual Disabilities in Special Needs Schools: The Role of Students' Problem Behavior and Descriptive Classroom Norms
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Schoop-Kasteler, Noemi; Hofmann, Verena; Cillessen, Antonius H. N.; Müller, Christoph M. – Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2023
Introduction: Individual social status among peers (i.e., acceptance and rejection) has important implications for students' social and academic development. The present study investigates the role of individual problem behavior and classroom norms in the development of acceptance and rejection among students with intellectual disabilities (ID) in…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Special Schools, Behavior Problems
An Evaluation of the German Teacher Version of the Developmental Behaviour Checklist in Children and Adolescents with Intellectual Disability
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Zurbriggen, Carmen L. A.; Müller, Christoph M. – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2022
Background: The Developmental Behaviour Checklist (DBC) is an established, internationally used questionnaire for assessing behavioural and emotional problems among young people with developmental or intellectual disabilities (ID). The present study aims to evaluate the psychometric properties of its German teacher version (DBC-T). Method: The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Check Lists, Behavior Problems, Emotional Problems
Anxiety Symptoms in Young People with Autism Spectrum Disorder Attending Special Schools: Associations with Gender, Adaptive Functioning and Autism Symptomatology
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Magiati, Iliana; Ong, Clarissa; Lim, Xin Yi; Tan, Julianne Wen-Li; Ong, Amily Yi Lin; Patrycia, Ferninda; Fung, Daniel Shuen Sheng; Sung, Min; Poon, Kenneth K.; Howlin, Patricia – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2016
Anxiety-related problems are among the most frequently reported mental health difficulties in autism spectrum disorder. As most research has focused on clinical samples or high-functioning children with autism spectrum disorder, less is known about the factors associated with anxiety in community samples across the ability range. This…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Anxiety, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Challenging Behaviors among Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Multiple Disabilities Attending Special Schools in Singapore
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Poon, Kenneth K. – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
This study sought to understand the profile of and the factors which impact upon challenging behaviors among children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and multiple disabilities (MD). Teachers of 322 and 132 children with ASD and MD, respectively, attending special schools in Singapore, completed the Developmental Behavior Checklist, Teacher…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Special Schools, Multiple Disabilities, Autism
Adaptive Skills and Maladaptive Behavior of Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders Attending Special Schools in Singapore
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Poon, Kenneth K. – Journal of the International Association of Special Education, 2011
This study describes the profile of and relationships between adaptive skills and the maladaptive behaviors exhibited by adolescents with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) attending special schools in Singapore. Parents of 20 adolescents with ASD attending special schools completed the Development Behavior Checklist (DBC; Einfeld & Tonge, 1995;…
Descriptors: Special Schools, Autism, Adolescents, Adjustment (to Environment)
Development of Parent- and Teacher-Reported Emotional and Behavioural Problems in Young People with Intellectual Disabilities: Does Level of Intellectual Disability Matter?
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de Ruiter, Karen P.; Dekker, Marielle C.; Douma, Jolanda C. H.; Verhulst, Frank C.; Koot, Hans M. – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2008
Background: This study described similarities and differences in the 5-year stability and change of problem behaviour between youths attending schools for children with mild to borderline (MiID) versus moderate intellectual disabilities (MoID). Methods: A two-wave multiple-birth-cohort sample of 6 to 18-year-old was assessed twice across a 5-year…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Persistence, Psychopathology, Behavior Problems