A working group of the 2016 International Summit on Intellectual Disability and Dementia was charged to examine the terminology used to define and report on dementia in publications related to intellectual disability (ID). ...

Although sexuality is a natural behavior when associated to people with intellectual disabilities, there are beliefs and myths on the subject, especially in the family, primarily responsible for the teaching of sex and ...

The paper reviews how gestures influence the working memory of students with mild intellectual disability. Our general hypothesis is that retention of verbal information in working memory will vary as a function of the use ...

Intellectual disability (ID) is the most restraining disability for professional inclusion, mainly due to the lack of adaptive skills focused on the work environment observed in people with ID. The aims of this study were ...

Faced with the educational policies that advocate inclusive education that respects and values all students, regardless of their individual characteristics, we developed a study to see how this scenario is seen by a professor ...

The objective of the study was to investigate the relationship between autonomy markers in adult people with intellectual disabilities (ID) and variables such as intelligence quotient (IQ), early aging, and literacy. ...

Intellectual disability, commonly known as mental retardation in the International Classification of Disease from World Health Organization, is the term that describes an intellectual and adaptive cognitive disability that ...

We tested the short-term effects of a nonrigid tool, identified as an "anchor system" (e.g., ropes attached to varying weights resting on the floor), on the postural stabilization of blindfolded adults with and without ...

This study was designed to identify perseverative reaching tendencies in children with intellectual disabilities (ID), over a period of 1 year, by using a version of the Piagetian ""A not B"" task modified by Smith, Thelen, ...