Table of Contents

Chapter 1
Research in Language Development and Mental Retardation: History, Theories, Findings, and Future Directions
Leonard Abbeduto, Yolanda Keller-Bell, Erica Kesin Richmond and Melissa M. Murphy

Chapter 2
Residential Services Research in the Developmental Disabilities Sector
John W. Jacobson and Steve Holburn

Chapter 3
The Measurement of Poverty and Socio-Economic Position in Research Involving People with Intellectual Disability
Eric Emerson, Hilary Graham, and Chris Hatton

Chapter 4
The Influence of Prenatal Stress and Adverse Birth Outcome on Human Cognitive and Neurological Development
Laura M. Glynn and Curt A. Sandman

Chapter 5
Fluid Cognition: A Neglected Aspect of Cognition in Research on Mental Retardation
Clancy Blair and Megan Patrick

Chapter 6
Dietary Supplementation with Highly Unsaturated Fatty Acids: Implications for Interventions with Persons with Mental Retardation from Research on Infant Cognitive Development, ADHD, and Other Developmental Disabilities
Natalie Sinn and Carlene Wilson

Chapter 7
Screening for Autism in Infants, Children, and Adolescents
Kylie M. Gray, Bruce J. Tonge, and Avril V. Brereton

Chapter 8
People with Mental Retardation and Psychopathology, Stress, Affect Regulation and Attachment
Carlo Schuengel and Cees G. C. Janssen

Chapter 9
Diagnosis of Depression in People with Developmental Disabilities: Progress and Problems
Ann R. Poindexter

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