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An Investigation of Behaviour Disturbance and Adaptive Behaviour of Children with Severe Intellectual Disabilities and Epilepsy: A Comparative Study
Author(s) -
Jones Slan,
Cull Christine A.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.056
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1468-3148
pISSN - 1360-2322
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-3148.1998.tb00065.x
Subject(s) - epilepsy , intellectual disability , psychology , disturbance (geology) , developmental psychology , learning disability , adaptive behavior , adaptive functioning , clinical psychology , psychiatry , paleontology , biology
Fourteen children with severe intellectual disabilities and epilepsy were compared with a matched control group of children without epilepsy, with respect to their behaviour. The few significant findings suggest that features of hyperactivity may be more likely to occur in the children with epilepsy, and that they have poorer life skills, particularly in the area of independent functioning.