Background: Psychotropic medications are frequently used to treat challenging behaviour in children with intellectual disabilities, despite a lack of evidence for their efficacy. This systematic ...

A new guide out this week aims to help parents as they contemplate medicating their kids to address challenging behaviors often associated with autism. The 21-page download offers a series of pros and ...

OBJECTIVES To describe the incidence of recorded mental illness and challenging behaviour in people with intellectual disability in UK primary care and to explore the prescription of psychotropic ...

Offering short-term, personalized support and guidance to parents and caregivers of a child or young adult with a ...

Parent Network of WNY is now accepting applications for its Family Behavior Support & Advocacy Program. The new program will work with a family to develop a goal and identify challenging behaviors and ...

This guideline covers interventions and support for children, young people and adults with a learning disability and behaviour that challenges. It highlights the importance of understanding the cause ...

This paper reports the findings of a survey of parents whose children attended 52-week residential schools. Seventy-three parents completed a postal questionnaire which asked questions about three ...

An AI-based behavioural analysis technology is currently being tried out in Seoul to detect and prevent challenging behaviours from people with developmental disabilities. SK Telecom (SKT), the ...

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Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In the wake of the boy-in-a-cage affair, ACT Education Minister Joy Burch has announced a wide review of how schools deal with children ...

The search process identified 14,151 records for screening. From this, 14 primary studies were eligible for review. Figure 1 depicts a flow diagram of the selection process. Figure 2 provides an ...

NICE has produced an easy read version of this guideline for people with a learning disability. To find NICE guidance on related topics, including guidance in development, see the NICE topic page for ...