Session: Intellectual Disabilities
5092.0: Wednesday, November 19, 2003: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM
Oral
Intellectual Disabilities
This session addresses a range of issues relating to intellectual disabilities, from public and family attitudes, substance abuse patterns, and intervention models.
Learning Objectives: Refer to the individual abstracts for learning objectives
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Moderator(s):Rene I. Jahiel, MDPhD
12:30 PMPublic Attitudes and Beliefs About Persons with Mental Retardation: Selected Findings from a 10-Country Survey
Gary N. Siperstein, PhD, Jennifer Norins, Stephen B. Corbin, DDS, MPH
12:45 PMFamily Attitudes and Beliefs About Persons with Mental Retardation: Results from Selected Countries
Jennifer Norins, Stephen B. Corbin, DDS, MPH, Gary N. Siperstein, PhD
1:00 PMEstablishing a baseline: Substance abuse among Medicaid beneficiaries with intellectual disability
Elspeth Slayter, MSW, MA, Marty Wyngaarden Krauss, PhD
1:15 PMRole of Individual Plans in the prevention of secondary conditions experienced by adults with developmental disabilities
Meg Traci, PhD, Tom Seekins, Phd, Sarah Geurts, BS
1:30 PMDevelopment of measures to assess the effectiveness of several interventions and reinforcement on oral health of persons with developmental disabilities
Donna Bainbridge, PT, EdD, ATC, Meg A Traci, PhD, Thomas Seekins, PhD
Organized by:Disability Forum
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy

The 131st Annual Meeting (November 15-19, 2003) of APHA