Intellectual disabilitiy in developmental age

Intellectual disabilitiy in developmental age

Intellectual disability (ID) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by deficits in intellectual and adaptive functioning that present before 18 years of age [1]. ID is heterogeneous in etiology and encompasses a broad spectrum of functioning, disability, needs and strengths. Originally formulated in strictly psychometric terms as performance greater than 2.5 SDs below the mean on intell...

Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Eugenics

INTRODUCTION Those working today with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) are often not aware of the dark side of our history concerning the treatment of this population and why we, some 150 years ago, made institutions or state schools for them (1). Maybe we have forgotten or chosen to forget something that we were not taught in school, and it is likely that our ...

Intellectual and Developmental Disability: Healthcare Financing

1 The Resource Exchange, Colorado Springs, CO, USA 2 National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Jerusalem, Israel 3 Health Services, Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Jerusalem, Israel 4 Division of Pediatrics, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel 5 Kentucky Children’s Hospital, Univer...

Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Male Health

1 Health Services, Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Jerusalem, Israel 2 Clalit Health Services, Yaski Community Medical Center, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel 3 Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel *Correspondence: jmerrick@za...

Newborn Screening for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities