{"title":"Parental coping styles and the school adjustment of children who are mentally retarded","authors":"S. Kravetz, R. Nativitz, S. Katz","doi":"10.1179/BJDD.1993.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/BJDD.1993.006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":411791,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Developmental Disabilities","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129593103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Staff Perceptions of the Communicative Competence of Adult Persons with Intellectual Disabilities","authors":"Margaret Purcell, Irene Morris, R. McConkey","doi":"10.1179/096979599799155957","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/096979599799155957","url":null,"abstract":"Communication problems appear to be a defining feature of people with severe learning disabilities. For example, nearly all attenders at a day centre in Avon were judged to have communication difficulties which required speech and language therapy (van der Gaag and Dormandy, 1993). These include problems with speech production, receptive and expressive language and with the pragmatics of communication. All three aspects contribute to a person’s communicative competence. Hence assessing this can be a complex undertaking; particularly as the context in which assessments are made can have a strong influence on the person’s behaviours (Light, 1989). Important data, specifically from personnel who regularly interact with individuals on a daily basis is therefore commonly sought from parents and direct care staff to augment assessments made by therapists. However the use of informants presupposes that they are capable of giving reliable information. Remarkably few studies have tested this. The one most pertinent to the present study is that undertaken by van der Gaag (1989a) in which she contrasted the ratings given by care staff with those of speech and language therapists on a number of communicative functions such as giving information, initiating conversation and describing feelings. Correlations between the two groups, although significant, accounted for less than 50% of the variance in the ratings and percentage agreements on specific communication functions such as describing feelings, were only around 75%. By contrast therapist-therapist agreements exceeded 90% while those between two carers were just above 70%. Likewise, Blackwell et al. (1989) found that parent carers rated the communication behav-","PeriodicalId":411791,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Developmental Disabilities","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115047176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PARENTS OF YOUNG PERSONS WITH LEARNING DISABILITY: AN APPLICATION OF THE FAMILY ADAPTABILITY AND COHESION SCALE (FACES II)","authors":"A. Hassiotis","doi":"10.1179/BJDD.1997.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/BJDD.1997.005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":411791,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Developmental Disabilities","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126579827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Fernando, D. Kohen, N. P. Sebaratnam, G. Mathew
{"title":"DISABILITY ASSESSMENT IN A POPULATION WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES IN THE COMMUNITY: A FOLLOW-UP STUDY","authors":"L. Fernando, D. Kohen, N. P. Sebaratnam, G. Mathew","doi":"10.1179/BJDD.1997.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/BJDD.1997.002","url":null,"abstract":"With the philosophy of community care and implementation of resettlement programmes the large mental handicap hospitals have discharged the majority . . of their patients into thelocal communities. ~ e f i Barnes Hospital in St. Albans, Herts. is one of these hospitals where active resettlement programmes are going on at present, and some of its long stay patients have been in the community for some time now.","PeriodicalId":411791,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Developmental Disabilities","volume":"2018 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132197787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE ASSESSMENT OF DEMENTIA IN PEOPLE WITH DOWN SYNDROME: CHANGES IN ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOUR","authors":"V. Prasher, V. Krishnan, D. Clarke, J. Corbett","doi":"10.1179/BJDD.1994.015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/BJDD.1994.015","url":null,"abstract":"The clinical diagnosis of dementia in people with Down syndrome is complex. The authors describe a significant decline in adaptive functioning in Down syndrome individuals with dementia compared to that of Down syndrome non-demented group. A new method of confirming the diagnosis of dementia by means of serial assessment of decline in adaptive functioning is described.","PeriodicalId":411791,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Developmental Disabilities","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116263899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF A SCALE FOR ASSESSING QUALITY OF LIFE OF PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES IN RESIDENTIAL CARE","authors":"D. Dagnan, J. Jones, L. Ruddick","doi":"10.1179/BJDD.1994.012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/BJDD.1994.012","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an analysis of the psychometric properties of the Questionnaire on Quality of Life (Cragg & Harrison 1986) using data obtained as part of a service evaluation. We present the factor structure, inter-rater reliability and internal reliability.","PeriodicalId":411791,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Developmental Disabilities","volume":"281 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116072685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE DEVELOPMENTAL PROFILE OF DISADVANTAGED 6 YEAR OLD CHILDREN","authors":"H. Costeff, Z. Kulikowski","doi":"10.1179/BJDD.1996.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/BJDD.1996.004","url":null,"abstract":"The problem with developmental disadvantage among children of the lower socioeconomic classes has been the subject of many studies. It has been well established that an intelligence quotient of 50-70 is about five times more common in these classes than in the middle classes (Zigler, 1967; Drillien et al., 1966). Ethnic groups whose members belong predominantly to the lower social class have a mean l.Q. about 15 points less (i.e. about one standard deviation) below those of more privileged groups (Faustlich et nl., 1987; Dreger and Miller, 1968). These observations have given rise tuthe·concept·ofsociofamilial retardation and to debates on the basic cause of this phenomenon. While the psychological and educational deficits of lower class children have been documented in considerable detail (Dreger and Miller, 1968; Faustlich et nl., 1987; Jensen, 1969;","PeriodicalId":411791,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Developmental Disabilities","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126169444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PARENTS' ATTITUDES TOWARDS AND THEIR SATISFACTION WITH CARE IN AN INSTITUTION FOR MENTALLY HANDICAPPED PEOPLE","authors":"C. Janssen, H. Kars","doi":"10.1179/BJDD.1994.011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/BJDD.1994.011","url":null,"abstract":"Parents of 69 residents with a mental handicap were asked to evaluate the institution caring for their children. We found it important to relate these evaluations to the different views parents have regarding their own role in the institutional care, the needs of their child and the goals of optimal care for these children.","PeriodicalId":411791,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Developmental Disabilities","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114364946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"COPING RESOURCES OF MOTHERS OF INTEGRATED AND NON-INTEGRATED PRE-SCHOOLERS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES","authors":"A. Rimmerman, I. Duvdevany","doi":"10.1179/BJDD.1995.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/BJDD.1995.006","url":null,"abstract":"(1995). COPING RESOURCES OF MOTHERS OF INTEGRATED AND NON-INTEGRATED PRE-SCHOOLERS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES. The British Journal of Development Disabilities: Vol. 41, No. 80, pp. 42-47.","PeriodicalId":411791,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Developmental Disabilities","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131006173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. R. Nichols, V. Prasher, V. Krishnan, J. Boughey, R. P. Londhe
{"title":"EPILEPSY IN A MENTAL HANDICAP HOSPITAL: A SURVEY REPORT","authors":"K. R. Nichols, V. Prasher, V. Krishnan, J. Boughey, R. P. Londhe","doi":"10.1179/BJDD.1994.008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/BJDD.1994.008","url":null,"abstract":"Case notes of 308 longstay residents of a mental handicap hospital were studied during 1992 and the details of epilepsy management for 102 (33%) residents were noted. Theer were 58 (57%) males and 44 (43%) females, and 90% of them had an IQ less than 50. A total of 1986 seizures (83% generalized, 15.5% partial and 1.5% unclassified) were recorded. 72% of the residents had one or more seizures and 26.5% had more than 10 seizures.","PeriodicalId":411791,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Developmental Disabilities","volume":"65 6-7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134363094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}