UNSW Sydney's Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry (3DN) has launched a tool to support the mental health assessment of people with intellectual disability and communication ...

为解决自闭症谱系伴智力障碍(minimally verbal autistic people with intellectual disabilities)患者焦虑评估工具缺失的问题，研究人员开发了AIDA量表(Anxiety in people with autism and intellectual disability assessment)。通过247名参与者的三阶段研究验证了量表的信效度 ...

Intellectual disability is a disorder marked by below-average intellectual function and a lack of skills necessary for independent daily living. The condition begins in the developmental period. The ...

A study of over 2 million adults with type 2 diabetes (T2D) showed that those with intellectual disability had a higher risk for cardiovascular diseases, particularly stroke, than those without ...

Richard Hastings receives funding from Cerebra and several government health research funders in the UK. He is affiliated with the charities Mencap, Sibs, Cerebra, and Ambitious about Autism. Bruce ...

Intellectual disability causes significant limitations to a person’s intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior. Intellectual disability is also sometimes known as cognitive disability. An ...

Intellectual functioning. Also known as IQ, this refers to a person’s ability to learn, reason, make decisions, and solve problems. Adaptive behaviors. These are skills necessary for day-to-day life, ...

Youth with foster care involvement have an increased risk for mental health diagnoses, trauma and worse outcomes in adulthood than their peers. Research about how youth with disabilities, including ...

Intellectual disability is most often caused by changes to the genome that take place in early fetal development and are not found in the parents' DNA. This is why the risk of recurrence in the next ...