Caregivers' Experiences with School-Work Transitions for Their Children with Disorders of Intellectual Development.

During the period of school-work transition, caregivers of young adults with disorders of intellectual development (ID) often play an extended and leading role in supporting their children. This article explores caregivers' overall experiences with their children's school-work transition. Ten qualitative in-depth interviews were carried out with eleven parents/guardians of ten young adults with disorders of ID.

Employment for persons with intellectual disability in the Nordic countries: A scoping review.

Background: Persons with intellectual disability remain largely excluded from the labour market in the Nordic countries. A review of the existing knowledge base may inform policymakers who try to address this challenge.

Method: The study uses a scoping review of 23 articles to summarize three decades of research on employment for persons with intellectual disability in the Nordic countries.

The role of special education teachers in facilitating peer relationships among students with mild intellectual disabilities in lower secondary school.

Background:: Students with intellectual disabilities may lack sufficiently developed skills to initiate qualitatively good social interactions; thus, they might be in need of assistance. This study examined special education teachers' role in facilitating peer relationships among students with mild intellectual disabilities in a mainstream school context.

Materials And Methods:: The study was based on qualitative semi-structured interviews with nine special education teachers who belong to special education groups in lower secondary schools.

Qualities in friendship - Within an outside perspective - Definitions expressed by adolescents with mild intellectual disabilities.

Background: This study examined how adolescents with mild intellectual disabilities define qualities of friendship and discussed the extent to which these definitions adhere to established definitions of close friendship.

Materials And Methods: The study was based on qualitative interviews with 11 adolescents in secondary school. The interviews were supplemented with information from six parents.

Characteristic interviews, different strategies: Methodological challenges in qualitative interviewing among respondents with mild intellectual disabilities.

Conducting qualitative research interviews among individuals with intellectual disabilities, including cognitive limitations and difficulties in communication, presents particular research challenges. One question is whether the difficulties that informants encounter affect interviews to such an extent that the validity of the results is weakened. This article focuses on voluntary informed consent and the specific challenges with the greatest effects on such interviews.

The time course of attentional deployment in contextual cueing.

The time course of attention is a major characteristic on which different types of attention diverge. In addition to explicit goals and salient stimuli, spatial attention is influenced by past experience. In contextual cueing, behaviorally relevant stimuli are more quickly found when they appear in a spatial context that has previously been encountered than when they appear in a new context.

Coping, quality of life, and hope in adults with primary antibody deficiencies.

Background: Living with a chronic disease, such as primary antibody deficiency, will often have consequences for quality of life. Previous quality-of-life studies in primary antibody deficiency patients have been limited to different treatment methods. We wanted to study how adults with primary antibody deficiencies manage their conditions and to identify factors that are conducive to coping, good quality of life and hope.

Local disodium cromoglycate is ineffective in ulcerative proctosigmoiditis.

Conflicting results have emerged from studies using oral and rectal disodium cromoglycate (DSCG) in inflammatory bowel disease. In the present double-blind study, 43 patients with active ulcerative proctosigmoiditis received either placebo (n = 22) or 600 mg DSCG (n = 21) rectally as enemas for eight weeks. Assessment was made from clinical investigations, endoscopy, laboratory tests, biopsies, and diary cards.

Jejunal villous atrophy and granulomatous inflammation responding to a gluten--free diet.

A 48 year old female patient with intestinal malabsorption and subtotal to total jejunal villous atrophy also had granulomatous inflammation characterised by numerous epitheloid and giant cell granulomas in the stomach, the jejunum, and the liver, On a gluten-free diet a complete remission was achieved that included disappearance of the granulomatous inflammation. It is suggested that the granulomas in this case were manifestations of the gluten intolerance.

Dumping following partial gastrectomy.

The incidence of dumping has varied from 1 to 75% in a number of reported series. The discrepancy probably depends mainly on different definitions of the dumping syndrome. In the present work, the clinical diagnostic index (CDI) first proposed by Sigstad in 1968, has been used in a follow-up study of 241 patients after gastric resection for ulcer disease.