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    The Impact of a Brief Home-Based Intervention on Families with a Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder

    A brief intervention is described and evaluated that aimed to build and strengthen relationships for families of children diagnosed with ASD aged 12 and under. A particular focus was on socially disadvantaged ...

    Audrey Mullan, Kerry Boyd, Roy McConkey in Journal of Developmental and Physical Disa… (2021)

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    How Disability and Other Socio-Economic Factors Matter to Children’s Socio-Emotional Outcomes: Results from a Longitudinal Study Conducted in Ireland

    Children with disabilities experience significantly poorer socio-emotional outcomes than their peers without disabilities. However, research evidence is scarce about children with both disability and migration...

    Ann Swift, Edurne Garcia Iriarte, Philip Curry, Roy McConkey in Child Indicators Research (2021)

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    Citizenship and People with Intellectual Disabilities: An International Imperative?

    The denial of citizenship to people with intellectual disabilities makes them among the most marginalised in every nation. Their exclusion comes from the persistent stigma associated with this disability, thei...

    Roy McConkey in The Palgrave Handbook of Disability and Citizenship in the Global South (2019)

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    My Friends and Me: Friendship and Identity Following Acquired Brain Injury in Young People

    Friendship plays an important role in the development of identity in adolescence. Amongst young people who have experienced an acquired brain injury, friendship can be seen as a key site in the reconstruction ...

    Sandra Dowling, Roy McConkey in The Palgrave Handbook of Disabled Children… (2018)

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    Tackling Stigma in Develo** Countries: The Key Role of Families

    This chapter expounds and celebrates the key role families play in challenging stigmatizing perceptions of intellectual disability around the world and especially in develo** countries. Drawing on the author...

    Roy McConkey, Callista Kahonde, Judith McKenzie in Intellectual Disability and Stigma (2016)

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    Screening for Autism in Iranian Preschoolers: Contrasting M-CHAT and a Scale Developed in Iran

    Suitable screening instruments for the early diagnosis of autism are not readily available for use with preschoolers in non-Western countries. This study evaluated two tools: M-CHAT which is widely used inter...

    Sayyed Ali Samadi, Roy McConkey in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (2015)

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    Anne Taylor, Lise Heber Ostlyngen in International Journal of Early Childhood (1982)

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    Millie Almy, Roy McConkey, Margaret Robert in International Journal of Early Childhood (1981)

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    Irené F. Turner, Roy McConkey, J. J. Tomiak in International Journal of Early Childhood (1980)

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    Roy McConkey, John W. Holloman in International Journal of Early Childhood (1978)