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Introduction: Whereas instruments for the assessment of intellectual and social abilities are widely available, instruments for the evaluation of emotional development of persons with intellectual disabilities (ID) are rare. The Scheme of Appraisal of Emotional Development (SAED), an internationally used tool developed by Dosen (2005a. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 49, 1, 2005b. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 49, 9), is one of the latter and is based on interviews with caregivers. The present study aims to investigate the internal consistency and interrater-reliability by changing the interview procedure into a direct observation and evaluation approach by a whole team instead of by one expert., Method: The level of emotional development of 175 patients admitted to a psychiatric inpatient unit specialized in the treatment of adults with ID was evaluated with the SAED by the treatment team after an observation period of up to two weeks. The inter- and intra-rater-reliability was assessed by direct observation of the behaviour of an additional 50 patients by two pairs of raters., Results: The internal consistency of the SAED dimensions, once rated by team approach, is excellent, and the reliability measures show also good statistical results., Conclusion and Implications: The evaluation of the level of emotional development using the SAED by a group-led and/or direct observational procedure show to be a reliable and useful approach. The group-based procedure yields equal results compared with the usual interview guidelines and might lead to an additional training effect within the respective teams. The rater-reliability measures align with those reported in other studies., (Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.)

Introduction In the last years there is more research in a differentiated view of the capacity of people with IDD. Besides the evaluation of cognitive functioning, studies also look at other developmental dimensions like socio-emotional skills. Because of their basically biological character, motor skills were not further studied in people with IDD. We wanted to study whether there is a correlation between these different dimensions in patients with IDD. Objective This presentation will look at possible connections and interferences between socio-emotional development, cognitive functions and motor skills. Methods We evaluated the level of motor development with the 'Movement Assessment Battery for Children” in n= 31 patients. Results were correlated with the level of cognitive impairment and socio-emotional status. Results In contrast to cognitive functioning we found no significant difference between the socio-emotional and the motor skills for all study patients, regardless of sex, in the subscales manual and ball skills. Only in the subscale balance we found a significant correlation with the socio-emotional level in female patients. Conclusion With regard to the dimensions cognitive impairment and socio-emotional level we found no significant correlation with motor skills. This is in accordance with the literature. Only in the dimension 'balance” in female patients we could see a significant difference which is a new result and interesting for further evaluation. So another study with a bigger and more balanced patient sample to confirm this result is planned. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]