Theory of mind development in school environment: A case of children with mild intellectual disability learning in inclusive and special education classrooms

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Smogorzewska ◽  
Grzegorz Szumski ◽  
Paweł Grygiel
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Intellectual Disability ◽  
Theory Of Mind ◽  
School Environment ◽  
Mild Intellectual Disability

scholarly journals SCIENCE EDUCATION FOR STUDENTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY: A CASE STUDY

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 804-820
Author(s):  
Canan Sola Özgüç ◽  
Atilla Cavkaytar
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Science Education ◽  
Intellectual Disability ◽  
Special Needs ◽  
Scientific Literacy ◽  
Mild Intellectual Disability ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Students With Special Needs ◽  
Technology Course

Scientific literacy is a principle objective of education almost in every country. It is mostly underlined in science education. Science education helps students become more productive individuals with the knowledge they acquire by promoting their thinking and learning skills and these skills help individuals to improve their scientific literacy. This research aims to determine the needs and problems in teaching science & technology course in a special education middle school, attended by students with mild intellectual disability. This is a case study based on collecting and analyzing qualitative data. Semi-structured interviews, conducted with two teachers, 11 students, and their parents, researcher’s diary, in class artifacts, field notes, and video recordings were used to depict the situation in the science & technology course mentioned above. The data were analyzed through content analysis via Nvivo 10. Research findings display that the school in which this research study took place must be enriched with high technological tools; special education teachers’ attitudes towards the necessity of the science & technology course for students with special needs must be improved; and teachers must be provided with knowledge and skills of differentiation and adaptation techniques to provide science & technology activities in order for the science & technology course to be taught in a more inclusive manner. Key words: case study, science for all, students with special needs.

scholarly journals Comprehensive study of 28 individuals with SIN3A-related disorder underscoring the associated mild cognitive and distinctive facial phenotype

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meena Balasubramanian ◽  
Alexander J. M. Dingemans ◽  
Shadi Albaba ◽  
Ruth Richardson ◽  
Thabo M. Yates ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disability ◽  
Protein Function ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Loss Of Function ◽  
Mild Intellectual Disability ◽  
Related Disorder ◽  
Feeding Difficulties ◽  
Facial Phenotype ◽  
Novel Variants ◽  
Common Behaviour

AbstractWitteveen-Kolk syndrome (OMIM 613406) is a recently defined neurodevelopmental syndrome caused by heterozygous loss-of-function variants in SIN3A. We define the clinical and neurodevelopmental phenotypes related to SIN3A-haploinsufficiency in 28 unreported patients. Patients with SIN3A variants adversely affecting protein function have mild intellectual disability, growth and feeding difficulties. Involvement of a multidisciplinary team including a geneticist, paediatrician and neurologist should be considered in managing these patients. Patients described here were identified through a combination of clinical evaluation and gene matching strategies (GeneMatcher and Decipher). All patients consented to participate in this study. Mean age of this cohort was 8.2 years (17 males, 11 females). Out of 16 patients ≥ 8 years old assessed, eight (50%) had mild intellectual disability (ID), four had moderate ID (22%), and one had severe ID (6%). Four (25%) did not have any cognitive impairment. Other neurological symptoms such as seizures (4/28) and hypotonia (12/28) were common. Behaviour problems were reported in a minority. In patients ≥2 years, three were diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and four with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). We report 27 novel variants and one previously reported variant. 24 were truncating variants; three were missense variants and one large in-frame gain including exons 10–12.

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