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Assessments, Assumptions and Ableism: Examining Court-Ordered Parenting Capacity Assessments of Parents with Intellectual Disability and Cognitive Difficulties
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Peiling Kong; Susan Collings; Margaret Spencer – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2025
Background: Parental intellectual disability is considered a risk factor for child removal internationally. In New South Wales, Australia, authorised clinicians are court appointed experts who assess parenting and cognitive capacity in child protection matters. Method: This study examined a sample of 20 assessment orders requesting parenting…
Descriptors: Parents with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Cognitive Ability, Child Welfare
The Association of Cognitive Functioning and Substance Use Disorders with Adaptive Impairments of Inpatients in Forensic Addiction Treatment
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Rianne Suelmann; Eric Blaauw – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2025
Background: Addiction medicine still largely neglects the topic of mild and borderline intellectual disabilities (MBID), although patients with MBID are considered a risk group for substance-related problems and offending behaviour. This study aimed to explore the cognitive and adaptive impairments of inpatients in forensic addiction mental health…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Mild Intellectual Disability, At Risk Persons, Mental Health
Pre-Trained Artificial Intelligence Language Model Represents Pragmatic Language Variability Central to Autism and Genetically Related Phenotypes
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Joseph C. Y. Lau; Emily Landau; Qingcheng Zeng; Ruichun Zhang; Stephanie Crawford; Rob Voigt; Molly Losh – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2025
Many individuals with autism experience challenges using language in social contexts (i.e., pragmatic language). Characterizing and understanding pragmatic variability is important to inform intervention strategies and the etiology of communication challenges in autism; however, current manual coding-based methods are often time and labor…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Models, Pragmatics, Language Variation