Positive Behavior Support (PBS) represents a values-based, multicomponent framework designed to reduce challenging behaviour and enhance quality of life for people with intellectual disabilities.

Challenging behaviour in individuals with intellectual disabilities refers to a spectrum of actions—such as aggression, self-injury, property destruction and socially inappropriate conduct—that ...

What is the study about? The goal of this study is to understand how executive functioning skills, such as working memory and inhibition, are related to everyday adaptive behaviors in youth with ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Gus Alexiou is a London-based reporter covering disability inclusion. A new study has demonstrated how virtual reality headsets ...

New research has revealed a confronting life-expectancy gap for people with intellectual disability in NSW, highlighting persistent and preventable inequities in health outcomes. The research, Life ...

Borderline intellectual functioning (BIF) isn’t currently a stand-alone diagnosis. Some diagnostic guidelines use it as a descriptive code, while others include it within a broader spectrum of ...

The effective planning and delivery of services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in South Africa is severely constrained by the lack of reliable data. Intellectual ...

Despite the rise of people diagnosed with autism, explicit training for law enforcement to respond to people with developmental or intellectual disabilities is still rare. Misunderstandings between ...