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Direct linkStephanie Pulido; Amy Matthews; Jamie Owen-DeSchryver; Lindsey Harr-Smith; Erik W. Carter – Inclusion, 2024
Schoolwide peer-mediated programs have long been advocated as an avenue for promoting inclusion, friendship, and learning for students with autism and other developmental disabilities. Such interactive programs faced complexities amid the COVID-19 pandemic. We surveyed representatives of 91 elementary and secondary schools implementing a…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Inclusion, Students with Disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorders
Annabel Burnley; Michelle St Clair; Charlotte Dack; Hannah Thompson; Yvonne Wren – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
Children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) often experience co-occurring psychosocial difficulties, the developmental trajectories of which are still not fully understood. This study sought to explore the manifestation of such difficulties during childhood, through first-hand accounts of those with DLD and their close relatives.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Children, Language Impairments
Katie Thune; Molly Gage; Quinn Oteman – Eye on Education, 2024
This essential manual helps educators comfortably and knowledgeably deliver lessons in comprehensive sex education to young people with developmental disabilities in the context of special education. Drawing on firsthand experience and real-world examples, the first half provides background material and tools for how to effectively partner with…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Health Education, Special Education, Students with Disabilities
Wai Man Raymond Chan; Ritesh Bhandarkar – Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2025
Background: Suicidality in individuals with intellectual disability is a critical but under-researched area. This systematic review aims to synthesize existing literature on the prevalence, risk factors, and interventions for suicidality among individuals with intellectual disability. Methods: Adhering to the PRISMA guidelines, a comprehensive…
Descriptors: Suicide, Intellectual Disability, At Risk Persons, Mental Disorders
Maria Camila Londono; Carmen Dionne; Carl Lacharité – Journal of Early Intervention, 2025
Executive functions (EFs) are cognitive skills that begin developing in early life and are crucial for children's overall development and daily task performance. Generally, EFs are assessed through standardized neuropsychological tests, which may not always accurately capture real-world application. To overcome this limitation, alternative methods…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Rating Scales, Young Children, Cognitive Development
Meredith Saletta Fitzgibbons; Amy Buros Stein; Omar M. Khan – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2025
Text comprehension can be facilitated in many ways, including enabling the listener to see pictures illustrating the story, to read along silently, or to read along aloud. The purpose of this study was to determine whether any of these three supports facilitated text comprehension in adults with intellectual and/or developmental disability (IDD).…
Descriptors: Adults, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities, Reading Comprehension
Michelle C. Reynolds; Mirian E. Ofonedu; Angelina Alpert – Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 2025
People with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities and their families and professionals often engage in person-centered planning to determine current and future supports needed to improve quality of life. Previous practice focused heavily on applying for disability specific supports referred to as formal supports and waiting hopefully,…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities, Quality of Life, Individual Characteristics
Catherine Keiling Arnold; Sarah Parker Harris – Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 2025
This qualitative study used an inclusive and participatory research approach to examine the perspectives of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) on instrumental supports. Instrumental supports include concrete and direct ways people assist others in solving a problem or accomplishing a task, including helping to access and…
Descriptors: Adults, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities, Social Support Groups
Amy Pei-Lung Yu; Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar; Vanessa L. Errisuriz; Deborah Parra-Medina; Mansha Mirza; Minyu Zhang; Pei-Chiang Lee; Weiwen Zeng; Jasmine P. Brown-Hollie; Eduardo Yespica Mendoza; Stephany Brown; Sandra B. Vanegas; Nazanin M. Heydarian; Sandy Magaña – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2025
Background: This two-site pilot study examined the feasibility, acceptability and preliminary outcomes of "PODER Familiar," a culturally tailored intervention to promote the health and well-being of Latina family caregivers and their children with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Method: Using the Promotora de Salud model and…
Descriptors: Latin Americans, Children, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities
Sandra Marquis; N. Esmé Marquis; Yona Lunsky; Kimberlyn M. McGrail; Jennifer Baumbusch – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare antipsychotic use by youth with intellectual/developmental disabilities to youth without IDD as they transitioned from pediatric to adult health care services. In addition, antipsychotic use was compared between youth with different types of IDD (autism, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Down syndrome and…
Descriptors: Drug Therapy, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorders
Jenny Sperling – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2025
By amplifying the voices of young college women with intellectual and developmental disabilities, this study explores the intersections of disability, gender, sexuality, and higher education. It highlights how maternal socialization shapes their sexual knowledge prior to college, revealing that mothers often leave their daughters misinformed,…
Descriptors: College Students, Females, Students with Disabilities, Mothers
Julie Daelman; Kristiane Van Lierde; Lut Willems; Manon Evrard; Ellen Simon; Evelien D'haeseleer – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2025
Background: Bilingual children are at risk for being misdiagnosed with developmental language disorders (DLD) because language tests in speech-language practice often fail to accommodate cultural and linguistic diversity. Evaluation of learning ability and modifiability during dynamic assessment may improve the diagnostic procedure for bilingual…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Language Skills, Bilingual Students, Indo European Languages
Kai Ian Leung; Monika Molnar – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2025
Background: As highlighted by research on typically developing children, various biases exist when evaluating bilingual children's abilities. These biases can lead to inequitable assessment of language and cognitive abilities--potentially over- or underestimating bilinguals' skills. Recent reviews on neurodivergent bilingual children alluded to…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Developmental Disabilities, Language Impairments
Cristan Farmer; Audrey Thurm; Tanvi Das; E. Martina Bebin; Jonathan A. Bernstein; Elizabeth Berry-Kravis; Joseph D. Buxbaum; Charis Eng; Thomas Frazier; Antonio Y. Hardan; Alexander Kolevzon; Darcy A. Krueger; Julian A. Martinez-Agosto; Hope Northrup; Craig M. Powell; Latha Valluripalli Soorya; Joyce Y. Wu; Mustafa Sahin – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2025
Developmental domains, such as cognitive, language, and motor, are key concepts of interest in longitudinal studies of intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Normative scores (e.g., IQ) are often used to operationalize performance on standardized tests of these concepts, but it is the interval-distributed person-ability scores that are…
Descriptors: Cognitive Tests, Intelligence Tests, Cognitive Ability, Intellectual Disability
Megan Kunze; Qi Wei; Alexis Bacon-Yates; Emily Pompan; Hannah Lockwood; Nicole Witthuhn – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
This study aimed to evaluate Promoting Reciprocal Relationships with Flexibility, Coaching, and Teaching (PRRFCT Match), a parent-mediated naturalistic developmental behavioral intervention package. An expansion from an earlier pilot study (see Kunze et al., 2021), PRRFCT Match incorporates virtual coaching between a novice coach and parent to…
Descriptors: Young Children, Developmental Disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Parent Education
