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Emotional and behavioural problems in children with visual impairment, intellectual and multiple disabilities
Author(s) -
Alimovic S.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of intellectual disability research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.941
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1365-2788
pISSN - 0964-2633
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2788.2012.01562.x
Subject(s) - psychology , intellectual disability , visual impairment , multiple disabilities , developmental psychology , audiology , psychiatry , clinical psychology , medicine
Background Children with multiple impairments have more complex developmental problems than children with a single impairment. Method We compared children, aged 4 to 11 years, with intellectual disability (ID) and visual impairment to children with single ID, single visual impairment and typical development on ‘Child Behavior Check List/4–18’ (CBCL/4–18), Parent Report. Results Children with ID and visual impairment had more emotional and behavioural problems than other groups of children: with single impairment and with typical development ( F = 23.81; d.f.1/d.f.2 = 3/156; P < 0.001). All children with special needs had more emotional and behavioural problems than children with typical development. The highest difference was found in attention problems syndrome ( F = 30.45; d.f.1/d.f.2 = 3/156; P < 0.001) where all groups of children with impairments had more problems. Children with visual impairment, with and without ID, had more somatic complaints than children with normal vision. Conclusion Intellectual disability had greater influence on prevalence and kind of emotional and behavioural problems in children than visual impairment.