Reviewing Risks Factors of Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities as Perpetrators of Sexually Abusive Behaviors

Martinello, Emily

doi:10.1007/s11195-014-9365-5

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“…Local agencies can be an excellent resource for books and films that address sexuality for the intellectually disabled, and a social skills' goal should be added to his Individualized Education Plan. 3 Finally, the parents of the girls need to have their concerns addressed. The school needs a better understanding of what happened and why the parents are considering involving the legal system.…”

Section: Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sexuality and Intellectual Disability

Wenger

Downes

Blum

et al. 2017

J Dev Behav Pediatr

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Amad is a wonderful 16-year-old young man from Syria who has recently relocated to the United States from his war-torn native country. In his last few years in Syria, he was primarily at home with his mother, and they sought refuge with a maternal aunt in the United States seeking asylum and treatment of Amad's disability. At 8 years of age, he had intelligence testing in the United Arab Emirates, which showed a verbal intelligence score on the Wechsler intelligence scale for children (WISC) of 68 and a performance of 64. His working memory was 67 and his processing speed was 65. On arrival in the United States, his achievement was roughly at a third-grade level in Arabic. In the year and a half that he has been in the United States, he quickly improved his English skills, which he learned as a toddler. His father remains in Syria unable to safely immigrate and his mother is raising him alone in the United States with the help of her sister. They come to you for an urgent care visit because Amad recently was accused of sexual harassment by two girls at his high school. He is in a substantially separate program but is included for lunch and technology. While in the computer laboratory, he repeatedly approached the girls and asks them to "date" him, and on 1 occasion sat behind 1 girl and repeatedly reached out to stroke her long blonde hair. His mother is distraught because she recently found out that Amad also has a Facebook page and had been attempting to contact the same two girls on social media. The girls' parents recently threatened to file criminal harassment charges and Amad's mother comes to you asking for help with making Amad stop this activity. What would you do next?

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Section: Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sexuality and Intellectual Disability

Wenger

Downes

Blum

et al. 2017

J Dev Behav Pediatr

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“…Lastly, some research conducted with women concludes that language problems are also a factor that increases the risk of sexual victimisation (Brownlie et al . ; Martinello ) because it makes it more difficult to interrupt the abusive act or the subsequent reporting of the incidents.…”

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confidence: 99%

Prevalence and sequelae of self‐reported and other‐reported sexual abuse in adults with intellectual disability

Gil‐Llario

Morell‐Mengual

Díaz-Rodríguez

et al. 2018

J intellect Disabil Res

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Background Sexual victimisation is an important problem that affects millions of people around the world, especially those with some kind of disability. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of self‐reported and documented sexual abuse in people with mild or moderate intellectual disability and to analyse the sequelae that such experiences can have on their psychosocial health. Methods The sample consisted of 360 adults (50% men and 50% women) between 18 and 55 years of age (M = 39.87; standard deviation = 10.55). Results The prevalence of sexual abuse is 6.10% when it is self‐reported (9.4% in women and 2.8% in men) and 28.6% when it is reported by professionals (27.8% in women and 29.4% in men). People who self‐report cases of abuse present poorer quality of life, more negative attitudes towards sex and a lower capacity to identify situations that entail a risk of sexual abuse. Individuals who have suffered documented cases of abuse are more likely to present encopresis, social isolation, self‐harm and a higher number of suicide attempts. Conclusions Our results evidence the need to have access to all sources of information so as to be able to obtain prevalence figures that match the real situation and to perform a proper analysis of the sequelae.

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“…). Furthermore, individuals with intellectual disabilities are also more likely to engage in sexually abusive or inappropriate behaviour, most commonly towards others with developmental disabilities (Martinello ; Wissink et al . ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In addition to increased prevalence, there appears to be risk for greater severity of abuse, as children with developmental disabilities have been found to be more likely to experience sexual abuse that involves penetration, physical force or violence and/or repeated occurrences (Hershkowitz et al 2007;Akbas et al 2009). Furthermore, individuals with intellectual disabilities are also more likely to engage in sexually abusive or inappropriate behaviour, most commonly towards others with developmental disabilities (Martinello 2015;Wissink et al 2015).…”

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