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Family Impact of Childhood Neurodevelopmental Disability: Considering Adaptive and Maladaptive Behaviour
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Gardiner, E.; Miller, A. R.; Lach, L. M. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2018
Background: The aim of the current study was to identify functional predictors of perceived impact of childhood disability among families of children with neurodevelopmental disorders and disabilities. We first examined the relationship between sub-domains of adaptive and problematic behaviour and perceived family impact. Second, we examined…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Children, Adolescents, Predictor Variables
Social Cognitive Training in Adolescents with Chromosome 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome: Feasibility and Preliminary Effects of the Intervention
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Shashi, V.; Harrell, W.; Eack, S.; Sanders, C.; McConkie-Rosell, A.; Keshavan, M. S.; Bonner, M. J.; Schoch, K.; Hooper, S. R. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2015
Background: Children with chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11DS) often have deficits in social cognition and social skills that contribute to poor adaptive functioning. These deficits may be of relevance to the later occurrence of serious psychiatric illnesses such as schizophrenia. Yet, there are no evidence-based interventions to improve…
Descriptors: Social Cognition, Feasibility Studies, Intervention, Interpersonal Competence
Psychiatric Diagnostic Screening of Social Maladaptive Behaviour in Children with Mild Intellectual Disability: Differentiating Disordered Attachment and Pervasive Developmental Disorder Behaviour
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Giltaij, H. P.; Sterkenburg, P. S.; Schuengel, C. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2015
Background: Children with intellectual disability (ID) are at risk for maladaptive development of social relatedness. Controversy exists whether Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) takes precedence over disordered attachment for describing maladaptive social behaviour. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of disordered attachment…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Children, Interpersonal Competence, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Attention to Social Stimuli and Facial Identity Recognition Skills in Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Wilson, C. E.; Brock, J.; Palermo, R. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2010
Background: Previous research suggests that individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have a reduced preference for viewing social stimuli in the environment and impaired facial identity recognition. Methods: Here, we directly tested a link between these two phenomena in 13 ASD children and 13 age-matched typically developing (TD) controls.…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Eye Movements, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Social Information Processing in Boys with Autistic Spectrum Disorder and Mild to Borderline Intellectual Disabilities
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Embregts, P.; van Nieuwenhuijzen, M. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2009
Background: Children with autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) and mild to borderline intellectual disability (ID) have less adaptive behaviour and more behaviour problems than children with mild to borderline ID. Social information processing appears to be an important mechanism in the explanation of the socially inadequate behaviour of children…
Descriptors: Social Development, Autism, Management Development, Cognitive Processes
Different, Difficult or Distinct? Mothers' and Fathers' Perceptions of Temperament in Children with and without Intellectual Disabilities
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Bostrom, P.; Broberg, M.; Hwang, C. P. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2010
Background: Can ratings of temperament be a way of identifying young children with intellectual disabilities (ID) who are at risk for being experienced as difficult? We aimed to explore parents' reports of temperament in their young children with or without ID, as well as positive and negative impact of the child on parents. Method: Mothers and…
Descriptors: Mothers, Autism, Down Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy
Social Skills in Children with Intellectual Disabilities with and without Autism
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de Bildt, A.; Serra, M.; Luteijn, E.; Kraijer, D.; Sytema, S.; Minderaa, R. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2005
Social skills were studied in 363 children with mild intellectual disabilities (ID) and 147 with moderate ID with and without autism (age 4 through 18). The objective was to investigate the value of the Children's Social Behaviour Questionnaire (CSBQ), as a measure of subtle social skills, added to a measure of basic social skills with the…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Autism, Interpersonal Competence, Measures (Individuals)