Annotated Bibliography

Biggs, E. E., & Carter, E. W. (2015). Quality of Life for Transition-Age Youth with Autism or Intellectual Disability. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

The article “Quality of Life for Transition-Age Youth with Autism or Intellectual Disability” is about, the health and wellbeing of the youth with autism or intellectual disability. There were 389 parents, or caregivers who participated. The ages of their children were between 13 and 21 years old. The participants lived in the state of Tennessee. The purpose of this study is to investigate the quality of life of young people served under the categories of autism or intellectual disability. The parent proxy version of the kidscreeen-27 was used to answer the asked questions. Five domains were used to measure the quality of life of children and adolescents. The domains were physical well-begin, psychological well-begin, autonomy and parents’ relations, peers and social support, and school environment. The lowest rating were social support and peers. The highest rating

Chien, C.-W., Rodger, S., & Copley, J. (2016). Differences in patterns of physical participation in recreational activities between children with and without intellectual and developmental disability. Research in Developmental Disabilities.

The article “The Differences in Patterns of Physical Participation In Recreational Activities Between Children With And Without Intellectual And Developmental Disability” is about, comparing patterns of children with or without intellectual developmental disability in engaging in recreational activities. The participants were children ages 2- 12 from Queensland, Australia. The children were recruited by using a cohort study design. Children who had certain impairment, disabilities, or health conditions were excluded because their conditions might affect their participation. Children with intellectual developmental disabilities have limited participation in recreational activities, they may be present but not physically engage. Children with disability rather be involved in activities they prefer. They prefer potentially passive and less physical activities such as watching television.

Forster, S., Gray, M. K., Taffe, J., Einfeld, L. S., & Tonge, J. B. (2011). Behaviural and emotional problems in people with severe and profound intellectual disablity. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research.

The article “The Behavioral and Emotional Problems in People with Severe And Profound Intellectual Disability” is about, research they came up with about individuals who had either serve or profound intellectual disability. They were examined as a single group although these two groups may be different. People with profound intellectual disability are more likely to have additional disabilities such as physical, sensory, and health disabilities. People with serve intellectual disabilities are less likely to use symbolic forms of communication such as speech, gestural language, or pictures. Regression analyses were used to examine trends in sub scale scores. People with profound intellectual disability had lower scores across all sub scales.

Lunsky, Y., Raina, P., & Burge, P. (2012). Suicdality among adults with intellectual disability. Journal of Affective Disorders.

The article “Suicidality Among Adults with Intellectual Disability Is About”, a study that will give a better understanding of why individuals with intellectual disability threaten or attempt to suicide. There was a total of 751 individuals with intellectual disability in 2007-2009 who experienced some type of crisis. There were 67 individuals who had crisis that involved threaten or attempt of suicide. 39 individuals were involved in a threaten and 28 had attempted suicide. The other half of the individuals were aggressive towards others. The most common type of suicide was drug overdose and cutting themselves. Individuals who were higher functioning, had a history of self-harm, and females had higher odds of threaten or suicide attempts.

Nicholson, L. C. (2013). Recruitment to intellectual disability research: a qualitative study. Jouranl of Intellectual Disability Research.

The article “The Recruitment to Intellectual Disability Research: A Qualitative Study” is about, the difficulties of recruiting individuals with intellectual disabilities. In the article, they discussed three reasons why it is difficult to recruit for research. It can be difficult to gain ethical approval, participants with more serve ID’s may not be able to give informed consent, and other authors have commented on the complexity of recruitment campaigns in ID. In September 2009 and May 2010 interviews was conducted and audio recorded. Research teams, recruitment process, and motivators were themes that were used to generate strategies to improve recruitment for ID research.