Intellectual functioning and behavioral disorders

Abstract

The paper discusses areas of behavioral functioning of children with intellectual disability, such as behavior with or without hyperactivity. The study covered 124 children with intellectual disability attending elementary schools in Belgrade. The Conners Rating Scale was used, and the areas of behavior in the classroom, participation in the group and attitude towards authority were covered. The results of our study suggest the presence of disorders in behavior and social-emotional functioning ranging from 11.2 to 40.4%. We have highlighted the importance of the use of multimodal approach and method of reeducation of psychomotor activity in rehabilitation of the studied children.

Behavioral Disorders and Drug Therapy

“…Factors of cognitive development, among wich speech has an important place, are important in forming psychopathology and symptomatology in which the disorders egzists [1,[11][12][13][14][15]19].…”

“…Since they are the part of our recent published wider projects, these results of the tested sample will not be present in this study [12].…”

“…The basic aspects of this kind of work are focused towards the so-called "Dual Diagnosis" theories, in fact, theories of the dual diagnosis and the contemporary conceptual attitudes of the researches focused on the research attitude of intellectual disabilities and mental illnesses, as well as the researches which have prominent achievements in this research field [1,[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19].…”