Service Inclusion for the Wellbeing of People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Comparison of Postural Control and Functional Balance in Individuals People with Intellectual Disabilities with and Without Developmental Coordination Disorder

Introduction: Balance in individual with intellectual disability has a great importance due to the failure to perform motor tasks. The purpose of the present study was to compare postural control and balance function in two groups of individual with intellectually disabled with and without developmental coordination disorder. Methods: The present study was a cross-sectional and causal-comparat...

College: an option for people with intellectual or developmental disabilities.

Visualize cars loaded down with the trappings for a college dorm, the student seeing their college housing complexes, parents carrying all those boxes in, and the newly minted freshmen surveying the landscape nervously but with happy anticipation. A student sees possibilities at every turn, but the parent is conflicted about the “launch.” Sons and daughters convince moms and dads that it is tim...

Advancing social inclusion in the neighbourhood for people with intellectual disabilities: an exploration of the literature

Defining social inclusion of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities: an ecological model of social networks and community participation.

Social inclusion is an important goal for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, families, service providers, and policymakers; however, the concept of social inclusion remains unclear, largely due to multiple and conflicting definitions in research and policy. We define social inclusion as the interaction between two major life domains: interpersonal relationships and communi...

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 ...