Sentences with phrase «intellectual disabilities live»

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Vanier, the founder and inspirer of L'Arche communities, where people with and without intellectual disabilities share daily life together, is particularly interested in relationships, human vulnerability and fragility.

With the support of AIM Independent Living Center, CDS Housing will provide support services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, including Medicaid Service Coordination, individualized person - centered planning and health education lectures and seminars, among others.

«We are very excited to begin the next step in providing affordable housing for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, seniors and veterans in Elmira,» CDS Life Transitions President / CEO Sankar Sewnauth said.

People with learning (intellectual) disabilities have a lower life expectancy than the general population and are more likely to suffer physical disabilities and chronic conditions.

Lee is particularly interested in brain development in youth with Down Syndrome, the most common genetic cause of intellectual disability (occurring in 1 in 700 live births), because there is surprisingly little known about childhood brain development in this condition.

The syndrome can be mild (with physical abnormalities and learning and behavioral problems) or severe (with profound intellectual disability and life - threatening physical defects).

We have not yet fully accepted those with intellectual disabilities, nor have we fully accepted a young immigrant struggling to understand the English language and American culture, or a teenager who is of color and living in poverty.

Then, if for example I have a paid job and we are all in this every afternoon, every day in a foundation, a disabled association, an intellectual disability association, a blind or deaf association, etc., every day, both morning and afternoon, including making the musical project not only for percussion, but with other instruments, and we are fully dedicated to it, we have to get an economic report, because we have to live from something.

For a young person living with an intellectual disability (ID) in the UK today, there are still a number of challenges which have to be confronted.

HeartShare Human Services of New York nurtures and empowers children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, including Autism Spectrum Disorders, through education, life skills and vocational training, employment, residential, case management, recreational, individual and family supports, and health care services.

It was like this treat, this big fat 500 - page densely written treat, sitting on my desk, and I tell you once I started it I was in a transfixed and highly emotional state until I was done, and goddamn if I wasn't right: in that book, in all those beautiful, heartbreaking, inspiring, illuminating stories of families figuring out how to adjust their lives to (for example) Down Syndrome or deafness or intellectual disabilities, I found exactly what it was I wanted to do next, which is write a book about the ways that parents and children navigate each other.

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Pet Partners teams interact with a wide variety of clients including veterans with PTSD, seniors living with Alzheimer's, students with literacy challenges, patients in recovery, people with intellectual disabilities and those approaching end of life.

«Connecting Through Story: Lives Lived Apart» is the result of an oral history and photography project connecting Pennsylvanians with and without intellectual disabilities.

Here is a series of photographs and audio interviews featuring 19 narrators with intellectual disabilities who live and work in Pennsylvania.

In addition to running LVL3, Vincent is the Art Director at the Arts of Life, working to advance the creative arts community by providing artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities a collective space to expand their practice and strengthen their leadership.

The Canadian Association for Community Living has raised concerns that capacity and guardianship laws may be influenced by negative stereotypes and attitudes regarding persons with intellectual or cognitive disabilities.

Many people with intellectual disabilities for example are capable of providing consent in some areas of their lives but not in others.

Patrick is Chairman of the Board of Directors for Brookland Community Resources, a grass - roots organization that works to promote the full inclusion of people with intellectual and physical disabilities into all aspects of community life.

The proposed changes address a gap in The Vulnerable Persons Living with a Mental Disability Act that has made it difficult to charge anyone for abuse or neglect of an adult with an intellectual dDisability Act that has made it difficult to charge anyone for abuse or neglect of an adult with an intellectual disabilitydisability.

We have represented organizations (such as The Arc of Massachusetts, which works to enhance the lives of those with intellectual and developmental disabilities) to fight discrimination against those with disabilities.

Disability Support Workers provide care to those who suffer from intellectual and / or physical disabilities and who live in community - based group homes.

Brighton About Blog Multi-award winning series following the lives of Sam, Hilly, Lucy, Lewis and Megan, 5 friends with intellectual disabilities who share a house in Brighton.

Empowers people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, mental health challenges and other social barriers to lead self - determined lives and reach...

Provided a stable living environment for six female residents with intellectual and physical disabilities.

Miami, FL About Blog Nature Links for Lifelong Learning is a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit organization providing educational programs for young adults ages 18 to 30 with middle range intellectual disabilities in the greater Miami area.Nature Links programs bridge the gap, guiding youth with unique learning differences and their families through the transition from high school to adult life.

He has led many initiatives for CID including successful campaigning for improved access to Medicare, coordination of the 1st National Roundtable on the Mental Health of people with intellectual disability and publishing the resources «Healthier Lives» Health Fact Sheets.

Developmental disorders, including intellectual disability and autism spectrum disorders, affect individuals worldwide, and account for more than 0.4 % of all disability - adjusted life years.5 Although effective comprehensive treatment programmes have been identified, 6 — 8 provision of these interventions requires significant resource output.9, 10 Given that a majority of individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders reside in low - resource settings, the scale up of such resource - intensive programmes is challenging.

The study confirmed that mothers of children with autistic disorder experience higher levels of depression and reported less than quality of life compared with mothers of children with intellectual disability.

The program has been adapted for adolescents between 13 - 18 years; upper primary school students; students with a mild intellectual disability; young people with an indigenous background and students who live in out of home care.

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The United Arc provides a variety of services to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities that promote personal well - being and self - fulfillment as individuals live and work in the community.

Resource development and input into key government and non government initiatives which address the capacity of women and men with intellectual or learning disabilities to lead good lives.

These restraints are designed to control people in a range of settings, from youth in detention to people with intellectual disabilities either living in a community setting or in the family home.

The healthy eating in supported accommodation toolkit is a best practice guide for services providing accommodation and food for people living with a mental illness and / or intellectual disability

My areas of interest include gender / sexuality / LGBTQ - related issues, anxiety, mood disorders, disability (physical, developmental, intellectual), relationships, transitions and adjustments, self - esteem and body image, daily life stressors, trauma, play therapy, and issues around identity.

Keywords: Epilepsy, intellectual disability, health - related quality of life, psychosocial problems, psychopathology

Assessment of Quality of Life, Family Function and Family Empowerment for Families Who Provide Home Care for a Child with Severe Motor and Intellectual Disabilities in Japan

Child's intellectual disability, daily living skills impairment, elevated emotional and behavioural difficulties, high educational level of caregiver and household income below the median significantly predicted caregivers» mental health difficulties, but autism severity, child communication skills and family circumstances did not.

We explore the relationship with child factors (autism severity, language, intellectual disability (ID), daily living skills, emotional and behavioural difficulties) and family factors (income, level of education, being a single parent, parenting multiple children with developmental difficulties, PACT therapy in pre-school years).

The results confirm that challenges resulting from the developmental problems of children with ASD may negatively impact family life also in the case of parents of children without intellectual disability.

Given that many Indigenous families and communities experience lower socioeconomic status than non-Indigenous communities generally, then it should come as no surprise to find that some Indigenous young people living in poor physical and social environments experience higher rates of cognitive / intellectual disabilities and poorer mental health.

Since gender differences in this group of parents were present in terms of personal stress, further research could investigate factors that determine the levels of stress and the quality of life in mothers and fathers of children with ASD without intellectual disability.

Parents raising children with ASD have been found to report higher levels of parenting stress, depression and anxiety, and increased general life stress than parents raising children with Down syndrome (DS), cerebral palsy (CP), fragile X syndrome (FXS), intellectual disability (ID), cystic fibrosis (CF) or typically developing (TD) children [e.g. 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17].

AD = Autistic disorder; ASD = Autism spectrum disorders; AspD = Asperger's disorder; CP = Cerebral palsy; DD = Developmental disorder; DS = Down syndrome; FQoL = Family quality of life; FXS = Fragile X dyndrome; HFA = High - functioning Autism; ID = Intellectual disability; PDD = Pervasive developmental disorder; PDD - NOS = Pervasive developmental disorder - Not otherwise specified; SOC = Sense of coherence; TD = Typically developing

This study aims to investigate how Polish mothers and fathers of children with ASD without intellectual disability perceive the functioning of their families and to explore relationships between family functioning, parental stress and quality of life.

In the parents of children with ASD group the inclusion criteria for the primary caregivers were as follows: (a) their child had a medical diagnosis of Asperger syndrome or childhood autism according to ICD - 10 [55] criteria; (b) their child had no intellectual disability; c) their child lived at home with them; (d) their child was between 5 and 17 years old; (e) their child attended a mainstream or inclusive school; (f) no concomitant conditions in children with ASD; (g) no developmental disorders or serious health problems in other children in the family; (h) the parents were partners and living together; (i) both of them completed the questionnaires; (j) both of them were biological parents of the child.