Differences in pragmatic communication skills of adults with intellectual disabilities and dual diagnoses.

Introduction: Pragmatics includes a set of skills related to language structure and meaning that allow the speaker to use the language appropriately and in accordance with different communication situations. The aim of this research was to determine the differences in pragmatic communication skills of adults with intellectual disabilities, dual diagnoses, and typical development, and to determine the effects of gender, age, the level of intellectual functioning and speech comprehension on their achievements on two assessment instruments.

Methods: The sample included 180 adults (60 typically developing participants, 60 with intellectual disabilities, and 60 participants with dual diagnoses).

Students' and teachers' perceptions of aggressive behaviour in adolescents with intellectual disability and typically developing adolescents.

This study investigated aggressive behaviour in Serbian adolescents with intellectual disability (ID) compared to typically developing peers. The sample consisted of both male and female adolescents aged 12-18 years. One hundred of the adolescents had ID, and 348 adolescents did not have ID.

Criminality of women: psycho-social dimension.

Unlabelled: Objective of the study is an attempt to determine main psychological features and family functioning properties of sentenced women, as well as possible differences in these characteristics compared to the normal population.

Methodology: The study included 108 women classified into two exclusive groups. The group of tested convicts (N= 62) included women serving their sentences in the Women prison in Pozarevac, and within this group we distinguished 4 subgroups according to the type of the crime commited.