The Treatment of Intellectually Disabled Sexual Offenders in the National Offender Management Service: The Adapted Sex Offender Treatment Programmes

Autism spectrum disorder and sexual offending: Responsivity in forensic interventions

“…Adaptations have been made to treatment programs for those sexual offenders considered Intellectually Disabled (ID), to ensure that there is less reliance upon traditional academic learning methods (Williams & Mann, 2010) and this approach could be of benefit to sexual offenders with ASD. Programs adapted for ID offenders to accommodate a range of learning styles and take a more individualized approach would be better suited to ASD offenders than the approach taken in many treatment programs.…”

The relationship between intellectual ability and the treatment needs of offenders in a therapeutic community prison

“…2 In addition, a comparison of different levels of IA would enable the variability of treatment needs among offenders to be examined, with a view to understanding why offenders with low IA might experience problems engaging in and completing treatment. Ultimately, this may provide insight into how far specific attention needs to be given to assessing the level of treatment needs of offenders prior to programme allocation rather than interventions for offenders being adapted, as in current practice (Williams & Mann, 2010) primarily in terms of the teaching methods adopted.…”

The Wiley Handbook on What Works for Offenders with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

“…In prisons, it appears that the prevailing focus (for both of these groups) is on providing treatment specific to identified criminogenic needs rather than disability needs. Mainstream treatment programs tend to be 'adapted' or 'modified' so that people with IDD can not only attend but also benefit from the programs (Craig & Hutchinson, 2005;Eccleston, Ward, & Waterman, 2010;Keeling, Rose, & Beech, 2007b;Lindsay et al, 2013;Oakes, Murphy, Giraud-Saunders, & Akinshegun, 2016;Sakdalan & Collier, 2012;Taylor, 2013;Taylor, MacKenzie, Bowen, & Turner, 2012;West, 2007;Williams & Mann, 2010). People with IDD who offend have the same criminogenic needs as people without IDD who offend.…”