Kinnear, D Allan, L Morrison, J Finlayson, J Sherriff, A Macpherson, L Henderson, A Ward, L Muir, M Cooper, S A
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Poor oral health is largely preventable. Prevention includes toothbrushing and regular dental checks. Oral health has important consequences for general nutrition, chewing, communication, wider systemic disease, self-confidence and participation in society. This study investigated the prevalence of edentulousness (no natural teeth) in adults with i...
Griego, A W Datzman, J N Estrada, S M Middlebrook, S S
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A systematic literature review was conducted to evaluate previous research that examined intellectual disability (ID) or autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in relation to memory distortions (i.e. suggestibility and false memories). There were two goals for the current study; the first goal was to identify significant trends in past literature that fulf...
Langley, E Totsika, V Hastings, R P
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Few studies have explored the well-being of fathers of children with intellectual disability (ID), despite the significant role that they play in their children's lives. The current study compared fathers of children with and without a child with ID on measures of psychological well-being (life satisfaction, work-family balance and general health) ...
de Souza, L C Dos Santos, A P Sgardioli, I C Viguetti-Campos, N L Marques Prota, J R de Oliveira-Sobrinho, R P Vieira, T P Gil-da-Silva-Lopes, V L
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The chromosomal microarray analysis (CMA) is recommended as a first-tier test for individuals with developmental delay (DD)/intellectual disability (ID) and/or multiple congenital anomalies. However, owing to high costs, this technique is not widely performed for diagnostic purposes in several countries. The aim of this study was to identify clinic...
Choi, E K Jung, E Van Riper, M Lee, Y J
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Sleep problems are common among children with Down syndrome (DS), and they can have a serious impact on children with DS as well as their parents and other family members. Specific aims of this study were to evaluate parent-reported sleep problems in children with DS and to examine the relationship between the sleep behaviour of children with DS an...
Farmer, Cristan Adedipe, Dee Bal, Vanessa Chlebowski, Colby Thurm, Audrey
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Background: Due to its centrality in the conceptualization of intellectual disability, reliable and valid measurement of adaptive behaviour is important to both research and clinical practice. The manual of the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales, recently released in its third edition, provides limited reliability information obtained from a sample ...
Rothwell, D W Gariépy, G Elgar, F J Lach, L M
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Caring for a child with a neurodisability (ND) impacts the financial decisions, relationships and well-being of family members, but evidence on the economic trajectories of families throughout the life course is missing. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we tracked the families of 3317 children starting 5 years before childbirth u...
Saniee, S Pouretemad, H R Zardkhaneh, S A
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Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) experience set-shifting deficit as a part of executive function, which can lead to cognitive and behavioural flexibility deficits and/or restricted behaviours. Despite the increasing body of research on this cognitive deficit, set-shifting training has not been exclusively studied in ASD. In this study, ...
Reyes, N Walsh, C Soke, N Hepburn, S
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Although in the last decade some research has emerged on temperament in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), this research has primarily focused on the differences between children with ASD and their typically developing peers rather than the stability or change in temperament in this population. Thus, the goal of this study was to examine temperament o...
Feniger-Schaal, R Oppenheim, D Koren-Karie, N
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This study examined mothers' representation of their children's inner world - maternal insightfulness - and its link to sensitive maternal behaviour. We aimed to understand some of the parental processes that underlie parenting children with intellectual disability (ID). The sample included 38 mothers and their children with non-specific ID aged 2....
