The research on the status, rehabilitation, education, vocational development, social integration and support services related to intellectual disability in China

Psychometric properties of the Chinese Behavior Problems Inventory-01 in children and adolescents with or at risk for intellectual disabilities

“…A national survey conducted in 2006 sampled %2.5 million people and yielded an ID prevalence rate of 0.75% (Wu, Qiu, Wong, Hernandez & Zhao, 2010). This rate is comparable with international prevalence estimates (Maulik, Mascarenhas, Mathers, Dua, & Saxena, 2011).…”

Management of Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disability in an African Setting

“…This could arise from cardiac dysfunction with neurological impairment. Most of our aetiologies were reported in previous survey either in national based data collection or hospital survey (Masri et al, 2010;Lin et al, 2009;Wu et al, 2010). But one could notice the absence of data on Down syndrome which is probably ruled out during pregnancy screening.…”

Perspectives of intellectual disability in the Peopleʼs Republic of China

“…There was also a smaller proportion of malnutrition, but causes due to birth injury/asphyxia and encephalopathy had increased [11 ]. As most of the economic growth in recent years occurs in cities, many rural areas in China remain poor and deprived.…”

“…The Second National Sampling Survey on Disability (2006)(2007) also showed that children and adolescents with intellectual disability were the age groups who had received the least services and support compared with adults. Only 35.3% and 54.2% of children aged 0-9 and 10-19 years had received some form of medical services or rehabilitation training, respectively [11 ].…”

“…With regard to geographical distribution, 81.7% were living in rural areas. This worked out as a prevalence of intellectual disability of 1.02% in rural areas and 0.4% in urban areas [11 ]. The great discrepancy suggests that important etiological factors exist between rural and urban areas.…”