{"title":"Are People with Intellectual Disabilities Getting More or Less Intelligent II: US Data","authors":"S. Whitaker","doi":"10.1179/096979511798967098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/096979511798967098","url":null,"abstract":"There is now good evidence that the intellectual ability of the population as a whole is increasing from one generation to the next (Flynn 1984, 1987, 2006), a phenomenon now known as the Flynn effect after James Flynn, who conducted much of the work on the effect. This increase in intellectual ability has clearly occurred at the low range of intellectual ability, at least in western industrialised countries (Flynn, 1985, 2006, 2009), over at least the last 50 years.","PeriodicalId":412658,"journal":{"name":"The British Journal of Development Disabilities","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127104147","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":"An Audit of the Management of Depression in a Community Population with Intellectual Disabilities in Accordance with Nice Guidelines","authors":"E. da Costa, Pramod Koyee, N. Bogdan, T. Qassem","doi":"10.1179/096979511798967070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/096979511798967070","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":412658,"journal":{"name":"The British Journal of Development Disabilities","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126143046","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":"Onwards and Upwards: The BJDD Changes its Name and Extends its Global Reach","authors":"","doi":"10.1179/096979511798967052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/096979511798967052","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":412658,"journal":{"name":"The British Journal of Development Disabilities","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115746837","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 Use of IQ and Descriptions of People with Intellectual Disabilities in the Scientific Literature","authors":"C. Laird, S. Whitaker","doi":"10.1179/096979511798967089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/096979511798967089","url":null,"abstract":"A necessary though not sufficient part of most internationally recognised definitions of Intellectual Disability (ID) is having a measured intellectual quotient (IQ) less than a critical figure, usually 70, for example the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD, 2010), the World Health Organisation (WHO, 1996), and the American Psychiatric Association (APS, 2000). Measured IQ is therefore one of the major descriptors of people with ID in the scientific literature as well as being an important independent or dependent variable. However, recent work on the accuracy to which low IQ can be measured has suggested that degree of error is much greater than had previously been thought.","PeriodicalId":412658,"journal":{"name":"The British Journal of Development Disabilities","volume":"113 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117290117","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":"A Tribute to Wolf Wolfensberger","authors":"P. Williams","doi":"10.1179/096979511798967115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/096979511798967115","url":null,"abstract":"Professor Wolf Wolfensberger, Director of the Training Institute for Human Service Planning, Leadership and Change Agentry at Syracuse University, New York, died at the end of February 2011. He was 76. He had leukaemia and had been unwell for some time, though he continued his hard work schedule at the Training Institute as much as he could. His influence on services for people with developmental disabilities has been one of the greatest of any single individual over the last 40 years. This influence has been on a global scale, with particularly strong (though sometimes unacknowledged) adoption of his perspectives and ideas throughout North America, in Britain and other European countries, and in Australia and New Zealand.","PeriodicalId":412658,"journal":{"name":"The British Journal of Development Disabilities","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122394727","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":"Israeli Arab Teachers' Attitudes on Inclusion of Students with Disabilities","authors":"N. Karni, S. Reiter, D. Bryen","doi":"10.1179/096979511798967106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/096979511798967106","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":412658,"journal":{"name":"The British Journal of Development Disabilities","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116730481","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":"Linking the Carolina Curriculum for Preschoolers with Special Needs to the ICF-CY","authors":"Susana Castro, A. Pinto, M. Maia","doi":"10.1179/096979511798967043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/096979511798967043","url":null,"abstract":"Summary The purpose of this study was to explore resources to improve the assessment-intervention-process for young children with special needs. The Biopsychosocial Model of development, along with the International Classification of Functionality, Disability and Health for Children and Youth (ICF-CY; WHO, 2007), provide a theoretical framework, as well as a classification system, that enable the documentation of functionality profiles of children using a common language across settings and disciplines. The Carolina Curriculum for Preschoolers with Special Needs (CCPSN; Johnson-Martin et al ., 1990) is a curriculum based assessment measure, which provides information both for the assessment of children’s behaviour as well as for planning interventions. In line with the World Health Organization’s recommendations for developing correspondences between assessment measures and the ICF-CY classification system, this study presents results of the linkage between ICF-CY and CCPSN, using deductive content analysis and the previously published linking rules (Cieza","PeriodicalId":412658,"journal":{"name":"The British Journal of Development Disabilities","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126325523","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":"Antipsychotic Prescribing in a Residential Facility for Clients with Learning Disabilty","authors":"Eugene Okorie, Carmel Connaughton","doi":"10.1179/096979511798967061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/096979511798967061","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":412658,"journal":{"name":"The British Journal of Development Disabilities","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130587497","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 and Challenging Behaviours of People with Developmental Disabilities: Influence of Individual and Contextual Factors on the Transactional Stress Process","authors":"A. Cudré-Mauroux","doi":"10.1179/096979511798967133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/096979511798967133","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Background: A lack of association between cognitive, emotional and behavioural variables is reported in research on stress of staff dealing with challenging behaviours of people with developmental disabilities. Aims: The aim of this paper is to explore the influence of individual and ecological factors on the transactional stress process. Method: A semi-structured interview format based on the different phases of the stress process has been used. A content analysis was conducted using a case study design to provide information about the contextualization. Results: The results show that both individual and contextual factors are likely to influence the stress process in different ways. Conclusions and implications: There is a need to investigate the particular factors and influences that determine how staff responds to challenging behaviour.","PeriodicalId":412658,"journal":{"name":"The British Journal of Development Disabilities","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128294707","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":"Antilibidinals – Cure or Curse? Long-Term use of Antilibidinal Medication in Adult Patients with Learning Disability","authors":"R. Gumber, S. Gangavati, S. Bhaumik","doi":"10.1179/096979511798967151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1179/096979511798967151","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The initiation of antilibidinal medication is clearly an area in which clinicians need to become skilled when managing patients with learning disability. Clinicians need to be aware of contra-indications and side effects and have a clear indication for the use and continuation of medication. Every effort should be made to enhance capacity of patients to consent for this complex treatment following the framework set out in the Mental Capacity Act (2005). Behavioural and psychological treatment must always be considered first line therapy in patients with learning disability presenting with sexually inappropriate behaviour. There is a potential for abuse of pharmacological therapy, especially in people with learning disability. It may be used to suppress normal sexuality based on the misperception that it is wrong for people with learning disability to express their sexuality. It may be an easier option where there are a lack of resources such as access to psychological therapies. This brings to light ethical issues surrounding the use of this questionable treatment as a substitute for psychological and behavioural therapies. In order to avoid this potential misuse, there is a need for guidelines, clinician training and a protocol based on good practice guidelines ensuring that clinical practice is standardised. Using protocols will also ensure that psychological and behaviour therapies are considered prior to pharmacological therapy and side effects are monitored for and recorded.","PeriodicalId":412658,"journal":{"name":"The British Journal of Development Disabilities","volume":"64 13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117088206","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}