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.
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).
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
18
Comparison between a cognitive remediation program (Cognitus and Me") (groupe 1) and a training group of fine motor skills (group 2)
Demily Caroline
Bron, LYON, France
Aberrant Behavior Checklist scale
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.
Time frame: 6 months
MDI-C scale ( Multiscore Depression Inventory for Children scale)
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
Time frame: 6 months
KIDSCREEN-27 scale
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).
Time frame: 6 months
Vineland 2 scale (Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale)
A measure of adaptive behavior from birth to adulthood
Time frame: 6 months
ABC scale (Irritability and social withdrawal)
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
Time frame: 6 months
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