The present study based on World Health Organization quality of life (WHOQOL-BREF) scale to examine quality of life of the caregivers caring for their children/adolescents with intellectual disabilities in Taiwan, and the factors contributing to their quality of life. Structured interviews were conducted with 597 caregivers of children/adolescents with intellectual disabilities. The results fou...

The present study examined the moderating role of social support and challenging behaviour on the stress-physical health relationship in parents caring for children with intellectual disabilities. Parents of children with intellectual disabilities (n = 70) reported more physical health problems compared to control parents (n = 45) and were more likely to visit their general practitioner. Furthe...

This research has the following purposes: 1) to find the efficiency of the selflearning activity set on development of skill in using fine motor of children with intellectual disabilities., 2) to compare the abilities to use the small muscles after the study more than before the study of children with intellectual disabilities, who made study with the self-learning activity on development of sm...

objective: this study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties and the factor structure of the behavior problems inventory (bpi-01) among students with intellectual disabilities in iran. methods: the persian version of bpi-01 was administered to the care staff of iranian children and adolescents (n=591) who had been detected as suffering from intellectual disabilities. iranian children and...

In this final issue of Journal of Intellectual Disabilities for 2011 a range of contemporary issues relevant to family life, the health of young people with intellectual disabilities inpatient use of services by adults with intellectual disabilities, and social policy are all explored. The first paper by Starke reports on interveiws undertaken with eleven young adults with intellectual disabili...

BACKGROUND Few studies have employed formal diagnostic criteria to determine the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in contemporaneous samples of children with and without intellectual disabilities. AIMS To establish the prevalence of psychiatric disorders against ICD-10 criteria among children with and without intellectual disabilities, the association with social/environmental risk factors...

Patterns of performance on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) have been proposed as useful tools for the identification of children with learning disabilities (LD). However, most of the studies of WISC-R patterns in children with LD have been plagued by the lack of a typically achieving comparison group, by failure to measure individual patterns, and by the lack of a ...