Pleasure, sex, prohibition, intellectual disability, and dangerous ideas.

The sexual lives of people with intellectual disability continue to be the subject of prohibition and restriction by disability sectors. Without access to sex education and the concomitant sex literacy, people with intellectual disability are denied the essential conversation about sex, sexual expression, and pleasure. The authors explore the history of sexual repression of people with intellectual disability, and the culture of sexual disempowerment.

Medication use among Australian adults with intellectual disability in primary healthcare settings: a cross-sectional study.

Background: There is concern about widespread medication use by people with intellectual disability (ID), especially psychotropic and anticonvulsant agents. However, there is sparse information on prescribing patterns in Australia.

Method: This cross-sectional study was conducted between 2000 and 2002 among adults with ID who live in the community in Brisbane, Australia.

Practical approaches to supporting young women with intellectual disabilities and high support needs with their menstruation.

Menstrual myths may influence decisions about menstrual and fertility management for women with intellectual disabilities and high support needs. We identify six myths (related to menstruation, menstrual management, communication, sexual feelings, menstrual difficulties, and surgical elimination) and the evidence that dispels these myths. We provide reflexive questions for practitioners to help them critically reflect on their own approaches to menstrual management.

Parental Concerns about the Health of Adolescents with Intellectual Disability: A Brief Report.

Background. Parents of adolescents with intellectual disability are concerned about the future health and well-being needs of their children. Method.

Invisible populations: parallels between the health of people with intellectual disability and people of a refugee background.

When considering the delivery of primary health care in the community, some populations remain virtually invisible. While people with intellectual disability might seem to share few characteristics with refugees and humanitarian entrants, there are a number of difficulties that both groups share when accessing and receiving primary health care. Commonalities include communication barriers, difficulties accessing past medical records and the complexity of health needs that confront the practitioner providing health care.

Effects of health screening for adults with intellectual disability: a pooled analysis.

Health screening has been shown to have beneficial effects on health outcomes in adults with intellectual disability. However, the nature of the population, which makes it difficult to recruit, has meant past studies have been relatively small and effect estimates unstable. This study conducted a pooled analysis of two randomised trials and one cohort study, containing a total of 795 participants.