Evaluation of the ability of people with intellectual disabilities to 'weigh up' information in two tests of financial reasoning

Journal of Intellectual Disability Research

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 380-391

  Willner, P ^a,b   Bailey, R ^a   Parry, R ^a   Dymond, S ^b  

^a ABERTAWE BRO MORGANNWG UNIVERSITY HEALTH BOARD   (United Kingdom)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision making; Executive functioning; Intellectual disability; IQ; Mental capacity; Temporal discounting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK;

ADULT; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 77952504864     PISSN: 09642633     EISSN: 13652788     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2788.2010.01260.x     Document Type: Article

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