Active clinical trials for "Intellectual Disability"

The purpose of this study is to find the relationship between the stage and quality of developmental delay during infancy and toddler age, and the final diagnosis that the child gets a few years later (MR, type of PDD, CP or comorbidity of a few disorders).

Objective quantitative primary endpoints are lacking in Clinical trials in intellectual disability. We propose to develop quantitative interactive attention evaluation criteria in patients with intellectual disability by using games on touchscreen and or eye tracking.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), mental retardation (MR) is defined by an intelligence quotient (IQ) < 70 and touches between 1 to 3 % of the general population. Profound mental retardation (QI <25), severe (IQ: 25-40) and moderate (QI : 40-50) have a prevalence of 0,3-0,5% while the prevalence of mild MR, defined by an IQ between 50 and 70 is evaluated to about 1,5 %. The origin of MR can be infectious, toxic, traumatic, genetic or environmental. genetic causes of MR gather the number and structure anomalies of the chromosomes, the genomic microreorganization, monogenic diseases and more rarely other non Mendelian-inherited anomalies like print or epigenetic anomalies, mutations of the mitochondrial genome etc... Genetic causes represents 50% of moderate to severe, whereas environmental factors (malnutrition, cultural deprivation,...) plays an important role in mild MR. The main goal of this study is to get an innovative tool (neuronal distinction of iPSC) that wil allow to study the functionnal impact of mutations uppon genes probably involved in MR like MYT1L. The main criteria associated to characterisation of the tool by the trial is the study of the pluripotency of iPSC obtained and to highlight the mutation of the gene MYT1L in the iPSC. Neurons from the iPSC of the patient and his father du patient wille also be morphologically characterised, but also thanks to the expression of specifically neurals genes. Characteristics of iPSC and neurons from d'iPSC with MYT1L mutation will be compared among the patient and his father, in relation with the same cells coming from the two witnesses.

The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of valproate on the required dose of propofol for sedation in patients with mental retardation.

Disability is a dynamic, multidimensional and diverse public health problem. Although the primary care burden of the disabled is mostly on mothers, caregivers cannot find little or no support socially and they have a high risk of experiencing physical and psychological health problems. In the studies carried out; Disabled caregivers reported higher and lower quality of life than healthy individuals' relatives with physical ailments such as asthma, arthritis, back pain, care burden, pain, insomnia, fatigue, depression, anxiety, stress. This study was planned to determine the effect of an application based on research, education and progressive relaxation exercises on the quality of life, perceived stress and coping strategies of caregivers of mentally disabled individuals. HYPOTHESES OF THE RESEARCH H1:Face to face education and PGE exercises applied to mentally disabled individual caregivers have an effect on caregivers' quality of life, perceived stress and ways of coping with stress. H2:Mobile application applied to mentally disabled caregivers and Education and PGE exercises have an effect on the quality of life of caregivers, their perceived stress and ways of coping with stress. H3:The Face to face + Mobile Application education and PGE exercises applied to mentally disabled individual caregivers have an effect on the caregivers' quality of life, their perceived stress and ways of coping with stress.

The main objective of this study is to determine the benefit of the Chalaxie pedagogical evaluation tool in the management of overweight or obese children with intellectual disability. Chalaxie is a software developped as a pedagogical evaluation tool. It is used in the therapeutic education of overweight and obese children and allow the clinican to explore several skills of the child, such as self-esteem.

Intellectual disability (ID) is a clinically and genetically heterogeneous condition that often results in a diagnostic odyssey. The deployment of high throughput sequencing (HTS) and in particular exome sequencing (WES) has made it possible to identify many genes responsible for ID. However, the WES does not identify the cause of ID in about two-thirds of patients, due to, for example, the uneven depth and coverage of all exons, or the location of variants in non-exonic areas. It has thus been shown that genome sequencing (WGS), which is still rarely used because it is more complex and costly, would be more efficient, with an expected diagnostic rate of around 60%. In response to the massive contribution of HTS in the diagnosis of patients suffering from rare diseases, France has launched the France Plan Médecine Genomique 2025 (PFMG2025) to deploy HTS platforms, which will be able to carry out WGS, WES and RNA sequencing (RNA-seq), and pilot studies to define the modalities for prescribing these examinations. Two cost-effectiveness evaluations of these technologies, in comparison with the current strategy for diagnosis of ID, are currently underway or planned in the short term in France: 1) PRME DISSEQ, comparing the large DI459 panel versus WES, 2) the DEFIDIAG pilot study of the PFMG2025 comparing WGS, in trio versus solo, versus current strategy. However, there are no studies examining the place of the RNA-seq in the ID diagnostic decision tree. However, some pathogenic variations are likely to have an effect on transcription. WES/WGS can detect them but are not able to affirm their pathogenicity because it focuses on genomic DNA. Only the RNA-seq makes it possible to study the transcription of candidate genes on a large scale, providing an additional level of evidence on both known genes in human pathology (OMIM) and candidate genes. The RNA-seq would increase the diagnostic rate from 10% to 35% in addition to the WGS in negative patients with first-line approaches (including WES) and thus optimize management by reducing diagnostic delays as part of a personalized care pathway.

About 17% of people with ID living in the community have challenging behaviour such as aggression to others or property, self-injury or hyperactivity. There are concerns that adults with ID and challenging behaviour over-use medication, spend large periods of time in hospital, and miss out on living in the community. Hospital care is expensive, and costs are increasing. NHS England has produced draft guidance about Intensive Support Teams (ISTs) proposing that they should be part of all community ID services in England. However, there is currently very little evidence about how effective ISTs are. The people who pay for Health and Social Care services (commissioners) would like more information, and this project aims to provide this. We propose to do a project over 36 months. It will be in two parts. First we will find out about how many, and what type of ISTs exist in England, by asking service managers about their service, their staff, and the work they do. With this information, we will identify different models of ISTs. Then we will look at several services in each model to compare how they work with people with ID and other local services. We will collect data twice over 9 months to see which model(s) work best. We will also carry out interviews with people who use ISTs, family and paid carers, and referrers to ISTs to find out about their experiences of these services, and how happy they are with them. Analysing and putting this data together will tell us about how effective each of the models are at reducing challenging behaviours, how much they cost, and which one service users, their families and people who work in other connected services prefer most. We will tell people about our results at conferences and in academic and services journals. We will ask our group of involved service-users and family carers to guide us, and help us tell other people about the results. We have a team of clinicians and academics who are experts in all aspects of the research, e.g. statistics, ID, service evaluations, and in running ISTs. We will follow research rules and recommendations to make sure we carry out safe, ethical and rigorous research.

This exploratory and observational study focuses on adults with an intellectual disability (ID) and their support workers. Two groups of clients are observed: clients using Key Word Signing, and clients using aided Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC). Approximately half of adults with ID is estimated to experience communication difficulties. AAC supports them in their daily communication aiming at optimal participation in society. Current communication models, such as Participation Model (Beukelman & Mirenda, 2005) and International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (WHO, 2001), regard both client-related and environmental factors as important elements of communication. A substantial part of the environmental factors is made up of the communication partners' characteristics. In daycare and residential services for adults with ID the support worker is an important communication partner .

Objective: Developing and corroborating the Collaborative Consultation for Participation of Students with Intellectual Disability (Co-PID) program, for enhancing classroom participation among students with moderate Intellectual and Developmental Disability (IDD). Method: study took place in two special education schools and included students with moderate IDD (n=60) and their teachers (n=11). The settings were randomly assigned to intervention or control group. In the intervention group, Co-PID program was employed; in the control group an In-Service (IS) was employed. Participation was evaluated at pre-test and post-test.