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Piloting attachment psychoeducation provided to parents of children with severe disabilities: Testing the feasibility of a digital micro-intervention. KU Leuven

Sien Vandesande, Guy Bosmans, Bea Maes
BackgroundA digital micro-intervention offering attachment psychoeducational videos was explored regarding its feasibility in parents of children with severe disabilities. Method: A mixed-methods study (including daily diaries and one-time questionnaires) with 16 parents (75.0% female) of children with severe disabilities (up to 10 years of age) was done during a three-week intervention. Results: Parents were positive about the video series and ...

Best practice recommendations on the application of seclusion and restraint in mental health care: An evidence, human rights, and consensus-based approach KU Leuven

Kathleen De Cuyper, Jasper Vanhoof, Tim Opgenhaffen, Sara Nijs, Johan Put, Bea Maes, Chantal Van Audenhove
UNLABELLED: WHAT IS KNOWN ON THE SUBJECT?: Seclusion and restraint still regularly occur within inpatient mental health services. The Council of Europe requires the development of a policy on for instance age limits, techniques and time limits. However, they only define the outer limits of such a policy by indicating when rights are violated. Within these limits, many choices remain open. Staff and service managers lack clarity on safe and ...

Language Profiles of School-Aged Children with 22q11.2 Copy Number Variants KU Leuven

Jente Verbesselt, Jeroen Breckpot, Inge Zink, Ann Swillen
Although it is known that copy number variants (CNVs) on chromosome 22, such as 22q11.2 deletion (22q11.2DS) and 22q11.2 duplication (22q11.2Dup) syndromes, are associated with higher risk for neurodevelopmental issues, few studies have examined the language skills across 22q11.2Dup nor compared them with the 22q11.2DS. The current study aims to characterize language abilities in school-aged children with 22q11.2Dup (n = 29), compared to ...

The effect of manual movements on stuttering in individuals with Down syndrome KU Leuven

Bea Maes, Inge Zink, Ellen Rombouts
PURPOSE: Stuttering may disrupt the speech of individuals with Down syndrome (DS), but standard stuttering therapies may be less adapted to these clients' needs. This study examined if their strength in gesture use can lead to the development of a new stuttering therapy. METHOD: Eighteen individuals with DS who stutter participated in an experimental task. During this task, they produced sentences in three different conditions: once without the ...

Parent-Reported Social-Communicative Skills of Children with 22q11.2 Copy Number Variants and Siblings KU Leuven

Jente Verbesselt, Jeroen Breckpot, Inge Zink, Ann Swillen
22q11.2 deletion (22q11.2DS) and 22q11.2 duplication (22q11.2Dup) confer risk for neurodevelopmental difficulties, but the characterization of speech-language and social skills in 22q11.2Dup is still limited. Therefore, this study aims to delineate social-communicative skills in school-aged children with 22q11.2Dup (n = 19) compared to their non-carrier siblings (n = 11) and age-matched children with 22q11.2DS (n = 19). Parents completed two ...

The disabling nature of hope in discovering a biological explanation of stuttering KU Leuven

Ellen Rombouts, Pascal Borry
Discovering developmental stuttering's biological explanation has been an enduring concern. Novel advances in genomics and neuroscience are making it possible to isolate and pinpoint genetic and brain differences implicated in stuttering. This is giving rise to a hope that, in the future, dysfluency could be better managed if stuttering's biological basis could be better understood. Concurrent to this, there is another hope rising: a hope of a ...