Medscape

Aggressive Behavior in Intellectual Disability Does Not Warrant Routine Antipsychotics

January 3, 2008 — In a randomized controlled trial comparing risperidone (Risperdal, Janssen Pharmaceutica), haloperidol, and placebo in the treatment of aggressive challenging behavior in patients ...
Medscape

Pharmacological Interventions for Challenging Behaviour in Children With Intellectual Disabilities

The search process identified 14,151 records for screening. From this, 14 primary studies were eligible for review. Figure 1 depicts a flow diagram of the selection process. Figure 2 provides an ...
Disability Scoop

Guide Looks To Help Parents Tackling Challenging Behavior

A new guide out this week aims to help parents as they contemplate medicating their kids to address challenging behaviors often associated with autism. The 21-page download offers a series of pros and ...
JSTOR Daily

Mental illness, challenging behaviour, and psychotropic drug prescribing in people with intellectual disability

OBJECTIVES To describe the incidence of recorded mental illness and challenging behaviour in people with intellectual disability in UK primary care and to explore the prescription of psychotropic ...

Reasonable adjustments and better training improve health outcomes in the learning disability community

Megan Pritchard, a third-year nursing student at Aston University, has written a paper outlining the health inequalities faced by people with learning difficulties and suggesting achievable ways to ...
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

Challenging behaviour and learning disabilities: prevention and interventions for people with learning disabilities whose behaviour challenges

This guideline covers interventions and support for children, young people and adults with a learning disability and behaviour that challenges. It highlights the importance of understanding the cause ...
Lockport Union-Sun & Journal

New program launched for caregivers of children with a developmental disability

Offering short-term, personalized support and guidance to parents and caregivers of a child or young adult with a ...

Parent Network of WNY launches new program

Parent Network of WNY is now accepting applications for its Family Behavior Support & Advocacy Program. The new program will work with a family to develop a goal and identify challenging behaviors and ...
Healthcare IT News

Seoul leveraging AI to detect challenging behaviour of people with developmental disabilities

An AI-based behavioural analysis technology is currently being tried out in Seoul to detect and prevent challenging behaviours from people with developmental disabilities. SK Telecom (SKT), the ...
JSTOR Daily

Parents Whose Children with Learning Disabilities and Challenging Behaviour Attend 52-week Residential Schools: Their Perceptions of Services Received and Expectations of the ...

This paper reports the findings of a survey of parents whose children attended 52-week residential schools. Seventy-three parents completed a postal questionnaire which asked questions about three ...
The Age

Challenging behaviour in schools under the microscope after boy-in-cage affair

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In the wake of the boy-in-a-cage affair, ACT Education Minister Joy Burch has announced a wide review of how schools deal with children ...
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

Challenging behaviour and learning disabilities: prevention and interventions for people with learning disabilities whose behaviour challenges

NICE has produced an easy read version of this guideline for people with a learning disability. To find NICE guidance on related topics, including guidance in development, see the NICE topic page for ...