Cognitive Profiles in Intellectual Disability

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Event Abstract Back to Event Cognitive Profiles in Intellectual Disability Katrina Tsoutsoulis1*, Nahal Goharpey1, Chantanee Mungkhetklang1, Gemma Lamp1, Alyse Brown1 and Sheila G. Crewther1 1 La Trobe University, Psychological Science, Australia Children with intellectual disability (ID) of different etiologies are often considered to be anxious with impairments in language, memory, visual processing and motor ability. However, it is unknown whether etiology, level of anxiety or degree of ID is the greatest limitation on cognitive potential in children with ID. The current study compared three verbal and non-verbal children groups of ID (13 with Idiopathic ID, 7 with Down Syndrome, and 13 with Autism) matched to 18 typically developing (TD) children on non-verbal mental age, using the Raven’s Coloured Progressive Matrices test. As expected, children with ID showed no significant difference compared to TD children on receptive language and visual inspection time task or heart rate, but were significantly worse on short-term and working memory tasks as well as motor ability, suggesting that it is the severity of ID and receptive language ability that poses the greatest limitation on the cognitive and motor profile of children with ID, rather than etiology or anxiety levels alone. A small subset of non-verbal children were also tested (2 with Idiopathic ID and 4 with Autism). In particular being non-verbal showed to be a significant limitation on cognitive potential, with such children being less willing to participate in tasks that required simple verbal instructions which is reflective of most tasks used to teach children in a school setting. Such findings have implications in the way children with ID are taught. Keywords: Intellectual Disability, receptive language, Memory, motor ability, Anxiety Conference: ACNS-2012 Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Conference, Brisbane, Australia, 29 Nov - 2 Dec, 2012. Presentation Type: Poster Presentation Topic: Memory Citation: Tsoutsoulis K, Goharpey N, Mungkhetklang C, Lamp G, Brown A and Crewther SG (2012). Cognitive Profiles in Intellectual Disability. Conference Abstract: ACNS-2012 Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Conference. doi: 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2012.208.00170 Copyright: The abstracts in this collection have not been subject to any Frontiers peer review or checks, and are not endorsed by Frontiers. They are made available through the Frontiers publishing platform as a service to conference organizers and presenters. The copyright in the individual abstracts is owned by the author of each abstract or his/her employer unless otherwise stated. Each abstract, as well as the collection of abstracts, are published under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 (attribution) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and may thus be reproduced, translated, adapted and be the subject of derivative works provided the authors and Frontiers are attributed. For Frontiers’ terms and conditions please see https://www.frontiersin.org/legal/terms-and-conditions. Received: 13 Oct 2012; Published Online: 17 Nov 2012. * Correspondence: Miss. Katrina Tsoutsoulis, La Trobe University, Psychological Science, Melbourne, 3083, Australia, katrinatsoutsoulis@hotmail.com Login Required This action requires you to be registered with Frontiers and logged in. To register or login click here. Abstract Info Abstract The Authors in Frontiers Katrina Tsoutsoulis Nahal Goharpey Chantanee Mungkhetklang Gemma Lamp Alyse Brown Sheila G Crewther Google Katrina Tsoutsoulis Nahal Goharpey Chantanee Mungkhetklang Gemma Lamp Alyse Brown Sheila G Crewther Google Scholar Katrina Tsoutsoulis Nahal Goharpey Chantanee Mungkhetklang Gemma Lamp Alyse Brown Sheila G Crewther PubMed Katrina Tsoutsoulis Nahal Goharpey Chantanee Mungkhetklang Gemma Lamp Alyse Brown Sheila G Crewther Related Article in Frontiers Google Scholar PubMed Abstract Close Back to top Javascript is disabled. Please enable Javascript in your browser settings in order to see all the content on this page.