{"title":"Tracking preschool children with developmental delay: third grade outcomes.","authors":"Christine E F Delgado, Sara J Vagi, Keith G Scott","doi":"10.1352/0895-8017(2006)111[299:TPCWDD]2.0.CO;2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1352/0895-8017(2006)111[299:TPCWDD]2.0.CO;2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Educational outcomes were evaluated for 2,046 preschool children identified with developmental delay. Results indicated that at third grade, 26% were in regular education and the remaining 74% were receiving special education services. The most common disability classifications at outcome were specific learning disabilities and educable mentally handicaps. Regular education, but not special education, children had higher retention rates than did the general population. The presence of one or more secondary exceptionalities in preschool was more common for special education than regular education children. Regular education and special education children did not differ on other factors studied. This study highlights the importance of developmental delay as an exceptionality category and advances our understanding of the long-term implications of such delay.</p>","PeriodicalId":76991,"journal":{"name":"American journal of mental retardation : AJMR","volume":"111 4","pages":"299-306"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1352/0895-8017(2006)111[299:TPCWDD]2.0.CO;2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26104009","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}
Lucinda P Bernheimer, Barbara K Keogh, Donald Guthrie
{"title":"Young children with developmental delays as young adults: predicting developmental and personal-social outcomes.","authors":"Lucinda P Bernheimer, Barbara K Keogh, Donald Guthrie","doi":"10.1352/0895-8017(2006)111[263:YCWDDA]2.0.CO;2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1352/0895-8017(2006)111[263:YCWDDA]2.0.CO;2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We report on a 20-year follow-up of 30 children with developmental delays identified at age 3. Our purpose was to assess the relationship of early indicators of delay to cognitive and personal-social status in young adulthood. Predictors were Developmental and Personal-Social factors derived from standardized tests and parent questionnaires administered when the children were 3 and 6 to 7. Outcome measures in young adulthood included standardized and project-developed questionnaires and interviews with young adults and parents. Findings indicate that prediction varies relative to the outcome assessed. Developmental status at 6 to 7 was a strong predictor of developmental status in young adulthood. However, personal-social outcomes were generally not predicted by Personal-Social factors in the early years.</p>","PeriodicalId":76991,"journal":{"name":"American journal of mental retardation : AJMR","volume":"111 4","pages":"263-72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1352/0895-8017(2006)111[263:YCWDDA]2.0.CO;2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26104006","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}
Robert Didden, Hubert Korzilius, Wietske van Oorsouw, Peter Sturmey
{"title":"Behavioral treatment of challenging behaviors in individuals with mild mental retardation: meta-analysis of single-subject research.","authors":"Robert Didden, Hubert Korzilius, Wietske van Oorsouw, Peter Sturmey","doi":"10.1352/0895-8017(2006)111[290:BTOCBI]2.0.CO;2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1352/0895-8017(2006)111[290:BTOCBI]2.0.CO;2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A meta-analytic study on effectiveness of behavioral and psychotherapeutic treatments for challenging behaviors in individuals with mild mental retardation is reported. Eighty articles were examined. For each comparison, several study variables and two effect sizes (percentage of nonoverlapping data-PND and percentage of zero data-PZD) were evaluated (Ms = 75% and 35%, respectively). Studies in which experimental designs and methods of experimental functional analysis were used had significantly larger PNDs than those with AB designs and descriptive methods, respectively. Functional analysis, reliability of recording, generalization, and internally valid designs resulted in larger PZDs. We found that behavioral interventions for challenging behaviors are effective with people with mild mental retardation.</p>","PeriodicalId":76991,"journal":{"name":"American journal of mental retardation : AJMR","volume":"111 4","pages":"290-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1352/0895-8017(2006)111[290:BTOCBI]2.0.CO;2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26104008","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":"Interference and inhibition in tasks of selective attention by persons with and without mental retardation.","authors":"Edward C Merrill","doi":"10.1352/0895-8017(2006)111[216:IAIITO]2.0.CO;2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1352/0895-8017(2006)111[216:IAIITO]2.0.CO;2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Persons with mental retardation often exhibit greater interference in visual selective attention tasks than do persons matched with them on CA. My goal here was to evaluate whether differences in distractor interference between persons with and without mental retardation may be related to differences in negative priming. Fifteen participants with mental retardation, 15 without mental retardation matched on CA, and 15 without mental retardation matched on MA participated in three selective attention tasks, which were chosen to elicit small, medium, and large group differences in interference, respectively. The failure to engage in inhibitory processes by the participants with mental retardation in these tasks of selective attention was related to increased distractor interference.</p>","PeriodicalId":76991,"journal":{"name":"American journal of mental retardation : AJMR","volume":"111 3","pages":"216-26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1352/0895-8017(2006)111[216:IAIITO]2.0.CO;2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25959779","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":"Meta-analysis of comparative studies of depression in mothers of children with and without developmental disabilities.","authors":"George H S Singer","doi":"10.1352/0895-8017(2006)111[155:MOCSOD]2.0.CO;2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1352/0895-8017(2006)111[155:MOCSOD]2.0.CO;2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Meta-analysis was used to synthesize findings from comparative studies of depression in mothers of children with and without developmental disabilities. Effect sizes were determined for 18 studies conducted between 1984 and 2003. A weighted effect size of .39 indicated an elevated level of depression in mothers of children with developmental disabilities. Planned comparisons found that age of child and disability category moderated effect sizes. Results show that mothers of children with developmental disabilities are at elevated risk of depression compared to mothers of typically developing children. Depression in mothers of children with developmental disabilities is a condition that is presently not being addressed on a wide scale, although promising interventions are available.</p>","PeriodicalId":76991,"journal":{"name":"American journal of mental retardation : AJMR","volume":"111 3","pages":"155-69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1352/0895-8017(2006)111[155:MOCSOD]2.0.CO;2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25957540","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}
Leonard Abbeduto, Melissa M Murphy, Erica K Richmond, Adrienne Amman, Patti Beth, Michelle D Weissman, Jee-Seon Kim, Stephanie W Cawthon, Selma Karadottir
{"title":"Collaboration in referential communication: comparison of youth with down syndrome or fragile X syndrome.","authors":"Leonard Abbeduto, Melissa M Murphy, Erica K Richmond, Adrienne Amman, Patti Beth, Michelle D Weissman, Jee-Seon Kim, Stephanie W Cawthon, Selma Karadottir","doi":"10.1352/0895-8017(2006)111[170:CIRCCO]2.0.CO;2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1352/0895-8017(2006)111[170:CIRCCO]2.0.CO;2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Referential communication was examined in youth with Down syndrome or fragile X syndrome in comparison to each other and to MA-matched typically developing children. A non-face-to-face task was used in which the participant repeatedly described novel shapes to listeners. Several dimensions of referential communication were especially challenging for the syndrome groups (i.e., they displayed below-MA performance), although there were differences in the dimensions that each syndrome group found to be most challenging. Independently assessed expressive language ability contributed to variations in referential performance, especially for participants with Down syndrome.</p>","PeriodicalId":76991,"journal":{"name":"American journal of mental retardation : AJMR","volume":"111 3","pages":"170-83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1352/0895-8017(2006)111[170:CIRCCO]2.0.CO;2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25957541","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}
Kate Arron, Chris Oliver, Scott Hall, Jenny Sloneem, Debbie Forman, Karen McClintock
{"title":"Effects of social context on social interaction and self-injurious behavior in Cornelia de Lange syndrome.","authors":"Kate Arron, Chris Oliver, Scott Hall, Jenny Sloneem, Debbie Forman, Karen McClintock","doi":"10.1352/0895-8017(2006)111[184:EOSCOS]2.0.CO;2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1352/0895-8017(2006)111[184:EOSCOS]2.0.CO;2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cornelia de Lange syndrome is reported to be associated with self-injurious behavior (SIB) and social avoidance. We used analog methodology to examine the effect of manipulating adult social contact on social communicative behaviors and SIB in 16 children with this syndrome. For 9 participants engagement behavior was related to levels of adult attention, and SIB showed significant variability across conditions for 3 participants. These findings indicate that SIB can be affected by environmental factors, even though it is thought to be part of the behavioral phenotype of Cornelia de Lange syndrome and suggest that individuals with this syndrome show socially motivated attention-soliciting behaviors. The implications for gene-environment interactions are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":76991,"journal":{"name":"American journal of mental retardation : AJMR","volume":"111 3","pages":"184-92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1352/0895-8017(2006)111[184:EOSCOS]2.0.CO;2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25957542","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}
Luc Lecavalier, Michael G Aman, Lawrence Scahill, Christopher J McDougle, James T McCracken, Benedetto Vitiello, Elaine Tierney, L Eugene Arnold, Jaswinder K Ghuman, Rachel L Loftin, Pegeen Cronin, Kathleen Koenig, David J Posey, Andres Martin, Jill Hollway, Lisa S Lee, Alice S M Kau
{"title":"Validity of the autism diagnostic interview-revised.","authors":"Luc Lecavalier, Michael G Aman, Lawrence Scahill, Christopher J McDougle, James T McCracken, Benedetto Vitiello, Elaine Tierney, L Eugene Arnold, Jaswinder K Ghuman, Rachel L Loftin, Pegeen Cronin, Kathleen Koenig, David J Posey, Andres Martin, Jill Hollway, Lisa S Lee, Alice S M Kau","doi":"10.1352/0895-8017(2006)111[199:VOTADI]2.0.CO;2","DOIUrl":"10.1352/0895-8017(2006)111[199:VOTADI]2.0.CO;2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The factor structure, internal consistency, and convergent validity of the Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised (ADI-R) algorithm items were examined in a sample of 226 youngsters with pervasive developmental disabilities. Exploratory factor analyses indicated a three-factor solution closely resembling the original algorithm and explaining 38% of the variance, with one significant discrepancy: Unlike the algorithm, all nonverbal communication items were associated with the Social factor. Internal consistencies of domain scores ranged from .54 to .84. Correlations between ADI-R domain and total scores and instruments assessing adaptive behavior, psychopathology, and autism were examined. They indicated some similarities between constructs, but also that the ADI-R measures autism in a unique fashion.</p>","PeriodicalId":76991,"journal":{"name":"American journal of mental retardation : AJMR","volume":"111 3","pages":"199-215"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25959778","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}
Stewart L Einfeld, Sophie J Kavanagh, Arabella Smith, Elizabeth J Evans, Bruce J Tonge, John Taffe
{"title":"Mortality in Prader-Willi syndrome.","authors":"Stewart L Einfeld, Sophie J Kavanagh, Arabella Smith, Elizabeth J Evans, Bruce J Tonge, John Taffe","doi":"10.1352/0895-8017(2006)111[193:MIPS]2.0.CO;2","DOIUrl":"10.1352/0895-8017(2006)111[193:MIPS]2.0.CO;2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Persons with Prader-Willi syndrome have been known to have a high mortality rate. However, intellectual disability, which usually accompanies Prader-Willi syndrome, is also associated with a higher mortality rate than in the general population. In this study, the death rates in a longitudinal cohort of people with Prader-Willi syndrome are compared with those for an epidemiologically derived control sample of people with intellectual disability from other causes. We found that those with Prader-Willi syndrome had a higher mortality rate than did controls. After the protective effect of mild intellectual disability or average intellectual function was accounted for, the hazard ratio for Prader-Willi syndrome versus controls was 6.07. Obesity and its complications were factors contributing to the mortality identified in this study.</p>","PeriodicalId":76991,"journal":{"name":"American journal of mental retardation : AJMR","volume":"111 3","pages":"193-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2422866/pdf/nihms-49140.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25957543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Socioemotional understanding and frequent aggression in people with mild to moderate intellectual disabilities.","authors":"Andrew Jahoda, Carol Pert, Peter Trower","doi":"10.1352/0895-8017(2006)111[77:SUAFAI]2.0.CO;2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1352/0895-8017(2006)111[77:SUAFAI]2.0.CO;2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Aggression in a proportion of people with intellectual disabilities is often assumed to be due to social-cognitive deficits. We reported on two studies in which we compared the emotion recognition and perspective-taking abilities of 43 frequently aggressive individuals and 46 nonaggressive peers. No difference was found between the groups' ability to label facial affect. The perspective-taking task required participants to distinguish between reactions of angry versus calm characters. Although both groups had similar success with elements of the task, the aggressive group proved better at predicting characters' attributions. Results suggest that deficits in emotion recognition and perspective-taking cannot be assumed to be causal or maintaining factors of frequent aggression. This has implications for assessment and treatment.</p>","PeriodicalId":76991,"journal":{"name":"American journal of mental retardation : AJMR","volume":"111 2","pages":"77-89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1352/0895-8017(2006)111[77:SUAFAI]2.0.CO;2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25845802","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}