Delahunty Lauren
University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
Nurs Child Young People. 2017 Jul 10;29(6):33-36. doi: 10.7748/ncyp.2017.e863.
The early diagnosis of children who have intellectual disability (ID) is crucial to ensuring the varied and complex needs of these people and their families are met in a timely and appropriate way. The ability to easily identify all children who should be assessed for ID would increase the chances of children with ID being diagnosed early on in life. This article describes ID, the kind of support children with ID need, and how nursing staff might use the Child and Adolescent Intellectual Disability Screening Questionnaire (CAIDS-Q) to help identify children who should be formally assessed for ID. Nurses who would benefit from a greater ability to identify ID include health visitors, school nurses, practice nurses, and nurses working in paediatric clinics.
对智力残疾（ID）儿童进行早期诊断，对于确保这些儿童及其家庭的各种复杂需求得到及时、恰当的满足至关重要。能够轻松识别所有应接受智力残疾评估的儿童，将增加智力残疾儿童在生命早期被诊断出来的机会。本文介绍了智力残疾、智力残疾儿童所需的支持类型，以及护理人员如何使用儿童及青少年智力残疾筛查问卷（CAIDS-Q）来帮助识别那些应接受智力残疾正式评估的儿童。能够从更强的智力残疾识别能力中受益的护士包括健康访视员、学校护士、执业护士以及在儿科诊所工作的护士。
