BACKGROUND Defaulting scheduled rehabilitation therapy may result in increased adverse outcomes such as permanent disability and increased healthcare costs. Concomitantly, there is evidence to suggest that early and continued rehabilitation of children with congenital disabilities can improve outcomes significantly. This study was conducted to determine factors contributing to caregivers' defau...

Children and adolescents with developmental disabilities, like all children, are sexual persons. However, attention to their complex medical and functional issues often consumes time that might otherwise be invested in addressing the anatomic, physiologic, emotional, and social aspects of their developing sexuality. This report discusses issues of puberty, contraception, psychosexual developmen...

In 1999, athletic training adopted new educational competencies and clinical proficiencies addressing the following domains: (1) risk management, (2) assessment and evaluation, (3) acute care, (4) general medical conditions and disabilities, (5) pathology of illness and injury, (6) pharmacologic aspects of injury and illness, (7) nutritional aspects of injury and illness, (8) therapeutic exerci...

The paper describes the adaptation and testing of the Cultural and Psychosocial Influences on Disability Questionnaire for use in Portuguese. The cross-cultural adaptation followed the steps of translation, back-translation, evaluation of the translations by a committee of judges, and then piloting of the pre-final version. This was performed in a sample of 40 nursing staff from the Hospital at...

People with intellectual disabilities can have various healthcare needs across their lifespan, which may be closely linked to genetic, biological and/or psychosocial factors. As a result, they require medicines – some of administered intramuscularly for clinical reasons, including as part the treatment range comorbid physical and mental health conditions. Additionally, this population not fully...

This article presents some psychosocial aspects of disability linked to the person–environment relation that teachers should share in the psychology classroom. Disability is an often-overlooked form of diversity, one that teachers should discuss alongside race, gender, sexual orientation, social class/socioeconomic status (SES), religiosity, and aging. The experience of disability and disabilit...

OBJECTIVE To obtain parents' perspectives on children's participation and environment to inform the development of new measures. DESIGN Descriptive design using qualitative methods with focus groups and semistructured interviews. SETTING Focus groups and interviews with parents of children with disabilities were held on campus, in the home, and at community agencies; interviews with parents...

Background: College students with invisible disabilities, including chronic pain, often experience difficulty engaging in social occupations, both on and off campus, because of stigma, misconceptions, or exclusion. Previous research has examined the use academic accommodations to address these concerns focused physical barriers participation, failing psychosocial holistic impact pain. Chronic p...

Purpose: To explore the presence of subtypes of intellectual functioning in children with mild intellectual disability (ID) and to externally validate the subtypes on measures of academic, adaptive and psychosocial functioning. Method: Participants were 167 children age 6-16 years with a mild ID. All children completed the WISC-III, WIAT, VABS, and PIC-R. Results: Based on a two-stage cluster a...

BACKGROUND: Self-efficacy is a key psychosocial factor influencing the outcome of vocational rehabilitation programs. There lack validated job-seeking self-efficacy measure for Chinese persons with disabilities. OBJECTIVE: The aim this study was to validate version Job-Seeking Self-Efficacy Scale (C-JSS) developed by Barlow, Wright, and Cullen (2002) examine its psychometric properties using sa...