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Renee Bergeron; Randy G. Floyd; Patrick J. McNicholas; Ryan L. Farmer – School Psychology Review, 2023
This study examined the group and individual part score profiles of individuals with mild intellectual disability (ID) who participated in a clinical validity study supporting the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, Fifth Edition (WISC-V) and a comparison group without ID derived from the WISC-V norming sample. Descriptive analyses revealed…
Descriptors: Intelligence Tests, Children, Mild Intellectual Disability, Scores
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Hasan Ali Güler; Afife Nur Orpay; Kübra Kilinç; Çigdem Yilmaz; Serhat Türkoglu – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2024
Objectives: This study investigated the utility of specific predictive and discriminative items within the Social Communication Questionnaire (SCQ) for distinguishing between autism spectrum disorder (ASD), intellectual disability (ID), and co-occurring ASD + ID in children. Methods: A total of 137 children aged 4 to 12 years (52 typically…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Comorbidity, Children
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Trevor, Maxfield; Park, Eun-Young; Blair, Kwang-Sun Cho – Education and Treatment of Children, 2021
This study provides the results of a meta-analysis of 31 single-case design studies on safety skills interventions for individuals with intellectual disabilities (ID). Results indicate that individuals who have mild to moderate ID, in particular school-age children, have benefited most from the safety skills interventions. In addition, the…
Descriptors: Safety Education, Skill Development, Behavior Modification, Intervention
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Angélica Liseth Mero Piedra; Orsolya Pesthy; Klara Marton – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2024
Background: Studies on physical activity interventions indicated a facilitative effect on cognitive performance in persons with intellectual disabilities; however, research is scarce, especially in low/middle-income countries. Aim: We explored the effects of a 6-week enriched physical education program on inhibitory control and attention functions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mild Intellectual Disability, Physical Education, Children
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Dizdarevic, Alma; Memisevic, Haris; Osmanovic, Armin; Mujezinovic, Amila – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2022
The goal of the present study was to assess the family quality of life (FQOL) in families with children with developmental disabilities in Bosnia and Herzegovina. We examined the FQOL in relation to parents' demographic variables (gender, age, employment status), children's gender and age, type of children's disability (mild and moderate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Quality of Life, Children, Developmental Disabilities
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Vali Noghondar, Narges; Saberi Kakhki, Alireza; Sohrabi, Mehdi; Alirezaei Noghondar, Fatemeh – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2022
Purpose: Children with Down syndrome (DS) have multiple difficulties in gait pattern. So, the effect of the activity level and speed on the gait coordination and variability was investigated. Methods: In this case-control observational study, 24 participants in three groups of active and non-active children with DS, and the control group without…
Descriptors: Down Syndrome, Psychomotor Skills, Children, Preadolescents
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Rungrojsuwan, Sorabud – rEFLections, 2023
Children with intellectual disabilities (CID) are born with incomplete development of intellectual capabilities. This deficit in intellectual competency is said to affect, to some extent, their language development. The present study aimed to investigate CID's communicative development, namely plot understanding, from their produced narratives.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Story Telling, Children, Early Adolescents
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Anjum Afshan; Asia Mushtaq; Tasnim Rehna; Fazaila Sabih; Arooj Najmussaqib – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2024
Intellectual disability is a serious lifelong disability that places heavy demands on society and the health system. The study was designed to determine the extent to which the intellectually challenged children are capable of improving their cognitive abilities as well as adaptive functioning through the Montessori Sensorial Training program when…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mild Intellectual Disability, Montessori Method, Sensory Training
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Conrad, Eric; Knowlden, Adam P. – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2020
Due to the increased prevalence of obesity and disparity experienced by youth with intellectual disabilities, efforts to synthesize existing knowledge of interventions to attenuate obesity within this marginalized population is imperative. The purpose of this investigation is to systematically analyze interventions targeting anthropometric changes…
Descriptors: Obesity, Intervention, Mild Intellectual Disability, Moderate Intellectual Disability
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Christine K. Syriopoulou-Delli; Areti-Eirini Filiou – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2024
Background: Children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) often experience symptoms of various mental disorders along with the characteristics that define ASD. High rates of several psychiatric disorders have been reported in people with ASD such as anxiety, depression, cognitive problems, emotional regulation difficulties and…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Anxiety Disorders
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Hammarlund, Mårten; Granqvist, Pehr; Forslund, Tommie – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2021
Prior research indicates links between parents' experiences of interpersonal trauma and emotion-interpretation difficulties, and between such difficulties and child attachment insecurity and disorganization. Although mothers with mild levels of intellectual disability (ID) are at heightened risk for trauma and emotion-interpretation difficulties,…
Descriptors: Mothers, Mild Intellectual Disability, Trauma, Attachment Behavior
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Brown, Deirdre A.; Brown, Emma-Jayne; Lewis, Charlie N.; Lamb, Michael E. – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2018
Children must describe maltreatment coherently for their testimony to be influential in court. We know little about how well children with intellectual disabilities (CWID) describe their experiences relative to typically developing (TD) children, despite CWID's vulnerability to maltreatment. We investigated children's reports of an experienced…
Descriptors: Children, Mild Intellectual Disability, Moderate Intellectual Disability, Preadolescents
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Nota, Laura; Ginevra, Maria Cristina; Soresi, Salvatore – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2019
Background: This study evaluated the impact of a structured 10-didactic units intervention on promoting the school inclusion of elementary school students with intellectual disability (ID). Method: The intervention was devised for 152 Italian typically developing (TD) elementary school students that were randomly assigned to the experimental (EG)…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Children, Intervention, Didacticism
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Drei, Samer M. Abu – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2023
This study aimed to investigate the psychometric properties of the Wechsler-4 Intelligence Scale who are deaf with Mild Intellectual Disability. Descriptive survey method was used. The sample included (174) deaf students in Jordan, ranging in age from (6-16.11) years. The scale was also applied in sign language. Validity indicators were found…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Deafness, Students with Disabilities, Psychometrics
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Stobbe, Kelly J.; Scheffers, Mia; van Busschbach, Jooske T.; Didden, Robert – Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2021
Introduction: Compared to their non-disabled peers, individuals with mild intellectual disability (MID) are at higher risk of becoming a victim of sexual abuse and more vulnerable to its disruptive effects. This review provides an overview of content and effectiveness of prevention and intervention programs targeting sexual abuse in individuals…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Prevention, Mild Intellectual Disability, Victims of Crime
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