Examining the influence of social‐environmental variables on self‐injurious behaviour in adolescent boys with fragile X syndrome.
Background: Individuals with fragile X syndrome (FXS), the most common known inherited form of intellectual disability, are at increased risk for showing specific forms of self‐injurious behaviour (SIB) such as hand biting and head hitting, suggesting that biological factors associated with the synd...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Intellectual Disability Research Vol. 62; no. 12; pp. 1072 - 1086 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2018
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