Behavioural and Emotional Functioning of Adolescents with Mild Intellectual Disability: Perspectives from Home and School

It has been reported that children and adolescents with an intellectual disability (ID) have a three to seven times increased risk of behavioural and emotional disorders when compared to peers with no ID This challenging behaviour in young people with ID decreases only slowly over time and remains high into young adulthood This suggests that emotional and behavioural disorders in young people with ID