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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"intellectually disabled"”.
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Resilience of auxiliary nurses caring for intellectually disabled patients
Background: Although mental health is regarded by the International Council of Nurses (ICN) as a very important element of wellness, healthcare to patients with intellectual disabilities still remains neglected and under-resourced in most societies. Auxiliary nurses are crucial in providing nursing …
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The assessment of risk in intellectually disabled sexual offenders.
… useful when predicting risk for an intellectual disabled population. In the next chapter a risk assessment instrument, the RRASOR, was critically reviewed. Following on from this, a case study using an individual approached to risk assessment in an intellectually impaired sexual offender was …
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Exploring social worker's experiences working with child sexual abuse survivors who are intellectually disabled.
… to empower social workers in the field of intellectually disabled child sexual abuse. Furthermore, the findings highlighted the need for stakeholder collaboration and policymakers to include and implement policies relating to child sexual abuse survivors with intellectual disabilities.
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My mom is not interested : a case study of a daughter and her intellectually disabled mother
"Intimate attachments to other human beings are the hub around which a person's life revolves, not only when (she) is an infant or a toddler or a schoolchild but throughout (her) adolescence and (her) years of maturity as well, and into old age" (Bowlby 1980, p. 422). The attachment literature is a …
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Creating non-representational art by students who are severely intellectually disabled through a pictorial and musical program
… Pictorial and Musical art program for severely intellectually disabled students, and to compare the non-representational art work produced by lower primary students in a special education school to similar art work being produced by lower primary students in a regular school, when taught in the …
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An exploratory study of psychiatric symptoms in intellectually disabled people with and without a known history of sexual abuse
… has found that psychiatric difficulties in the intellectually disabled population can manifest in atypical forms which differ from those exhibited in the general population. The aim of this study was to explore the prevalence of psychiatric symptoms in the intellectually disabled population in …
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Sexuality Workplace Issues Among Direct Service Personnel Working With Populations Who Are Intellectually Disabled In Community Integrated Living Arrangements: A Case Study
… PERSONNEL WORKING WITH POPULATIONS WHO ARE INTELLECTUALLY DISABLED IN COMMUNITY INTEGRATED LIVING ARRANGEMENTS: A CASE STUDY MAJOR PROFESSOR: Dr. Roberta Ogletree Background: The purpose of this study was to explore DSP workplace experiences, preparation, employee training, emotions, and …
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Behavioural challenges in people with intellectual disability : a comparison between those with a history of sexual assault and those without
… the presence of challenging behaviours in the intellectually disabled people they were caring for. The ABC-C has been used in previous studies and has a well-established validity and reliability. The performance of the two groups was quantitatively analysed using the Mann-Whitney U statistical …
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Transition from special school to post school in youth with intellectual disability: Parents' experiences
… information available on the preparation of intellectually disabled youth for their post school future in the South African context. Consequently, parents of intellectually disabled youth face tremendous challenges when their child reaches this transition age. This study aimed to describe …
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Disorganized Intimacy: Disability, Sexuality, and Social Life at a Disability Service Centre in Montreal, Quebec
… Canada, disability service organizations provide intellectually disabled people with independent living and social integration programs. Emerging from a deficit-model of disability, these programs are designed to mitigate the presumed social impairments of intellectually disabled people. Social …
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Hearing Health in Utah Special Olympics Athletes Compared to Special Olympics Athletes Worldwide: A Prevalence Study in Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities
… regarding the need of health care for the intellectually disabled population. The physiologic, otologic, and audiologic abnormalities often occurring in the intellectually disabled population bring special attention for the need to determine the prevalence rate of hearing loss among the …
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Social Production of Intellectual Disability and the Mechanics of Moral Exclusion: Past, Present, and Future
… to allow for people who are categorized as intellectually disabled to be legally warehoused and paid as little as pennies per hour to complete rote, repetitive work within segregated environments. An entire court case was conducted about whether a man labeled as intellectually disabled was …
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The use of auditory prompting procedure and specific reinforcer assignments to promote auditory-visual conditional discriminations in persons with intellectual disabilities
… auditory-visual discriminations with intellectually disabled individuals, specifically individuals who are level 4, 5, and/or 6 on the ABLA-R using a table top match to sample procedure. Two of five participants (one ABLA-R level 5 and one ABLA-R level 6) demonstrated emergent …
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The role of declarative memory in the acquisition of conceptual semantic knowledge in Autism Spectrum Disorder
… (ALI); ASD without language impairment (ALN), intellectually disabled children without ASD (ID) and typically developing children (TD). Children were tested on two forced choice recognition tests of familiarity and recollection and a shape recognition and cued action-recall test. The relation …
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TOWARD A CO-VIVIAL COMMUNITY: HOPES FOUND IN THE FRIENDSHIP AMONG PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY LABELS
… human value that could validate people labeled intellectually disabled whose humanity and citizenship are often doubted by dominant standards in industrialized societies. In addition to resisting social standards and presenting broader meanings of participation and competence, the informants of …
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Cognitive functioning of child protection clients in secure care: a neuropsychological study
… are not specific to those identified as intellectually disabled. The implications of such deficits are potentially profound, influencing academic performance, adaptive behaviour and social functioning. As these deficits are not consistent with a specific neuropsychological disorder, these …
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Human dignity and intellectual disability: Thinking with Beauvoir over the influence of the Kantian view
… thesis. In a Beauvoirean way, the needs that intellectually disabled people possess are not out of the ordinary for what we understand about human freedom. My philosophical conception of human dignity is that it is both a quality and a capacity: the former as a cause, which flows from our …
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LINES THAT BIND: DISABILITY’S PLACE IN THE MODERNIST WRITINGS OF WILLIAM FAULKNER, AMY LOWELL, LANGSTON HUGHES, AND EZRA POUND
… masquerade to assume but play against the intellectually disabled identity forced on Blacks at the time, rather than attempting to distance himself from the label as disability theorists such as Douglas Baynton posit generally occurs when racialized groups are associated with disability. In …
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