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 ...

The NIH Toolbox Cognitive Battery — an assessment of cognitive functioning for adults and children participating in neuroscience research — can be adapted to people with intellectual disabilities by ...

WATERBURY, Conn., Jan. 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Therap's Comprehensive Health Assessment Tool provides support and health professionals with a suite of health evaluation features in assessing ...

Disability organisations say a proposal to introduce independent assessments is about "box-ticking" and cost cutting NDIS funding plans are currently determined by reports from medical ...

Advancements over the last 10 years in understanding intellectual disability have led to the once-unimaginable possibility that the condition may be treatable, a review of more than 100 studies on ...

From 2019 to 2021, rates of intellectual disability or autism spectrum disorder did not increase by a statistically significant amount. The report found 1.65% of children had an intellectual ...

The researchers found that the population of youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities in foster care had grown substantially to almost 40,000 – or nearly 9% – and the rates of autism and ...

Mindful of the need to move forward as quickly as possible and to do so together, in 2007 a joint INAS-FID/IPC working group was established with the following terms of reference: To appraise the ...