Mental Retardation
Conditions
Keywords
Attentional disorders, intellectual deficiency
Brief summary
Holders children with intellectual disabilities have great difficulty in adapting to social situations and relationships.Cognitive impairment associated with intellectual disability are important factors to understand their difficulties in processing social information. In the field of recognition of facial emotions in particular, basic cognitive processes such as visuospatial and attentional functions, are heavily involved.Cognitive remediation is a management tool widely used by practitioners to help patients who experience cognitive difficulties. Currently, no program can meet specific and validated the problems are children with intellectual disabilities manner in their daily functioning.
Detailed description
Cognitus & ME is a remediation program focused on attentional functions and visuospatial, to limit the presence of behavioral disorders among children with intellectual disabilities.The main objective is to validate the effectiveness of Cognitus & ME program on behavioral disorders in children with intellectual disabilities (with or without autism spectrum disorder associated).
Interventions
BEHAVIORALCognitive remediation program
Comparison between a cognitive remediation program (Cognitus and Me) (groupe 1) and a training group of fine motor skills (group 2)
Sponsors
Hôpital le Vinatier
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
5 Years to 13 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Children with intellectual deficiency (5-13 years) (40 \< total IQ \< 75) with or without autism spectrum disorders * Native French speaker * Clinically stable * Parental consent
Exclusion criteria
* visual or auditory disorder * history of neurological illness or trauma * Absence of language
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Aberrant Behavior Checklist scale | 6 months | Change in sub-score hyperactivity / non compliance (scale Aberrant Behavior Checklist ) (completed by parents or the educational team). This measure is repeated at the end of the intervention to highlight the impact of the Cognitus and Me program, and 6 months later to investigate the possible long-lasting effects of the benefits. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| MDI-C scale ( Multiscore Depression Inventory for Children scale) | 6 months | The Aberrant Behavior Checklist-Community (ABC-C; Aman & Singh, 1994) is a rating scale that measures the severity of a range of problem behaviors commonly observed in individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities |
| KIDSCREEN-27 scale | 6 months | The KIDSCREEN-27 with five dimensions resulted. All five dimensions are Rasch scales: Physical Well-Being (5 items), Psychological Well-Being (7 items), Autonomy & Parents (7 items), Peers & Social Support (4 items), and School Environment (4 items). |
| Vineland 2 scale (Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale) | 6 months | A measure of adaptive behavior from birth to adulthood |
| ABC scale (Irritability and social withdrawal) | 6 months | This measure is repeated at the end of the intervention to highlight the impact of the Cognitus and Me program, and 6 months later to investigate the possible long-lasting effects of the benefits |
Countries
France
Outcome results
None listed