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Ida Lindblad

About our researcher Ida Lindblad

About Ida Lindblad

Ida, a psychologist, defended her dissertation in December 2013. She works as a private practice psychologist, mainly collaborating with municipal and private schools. Additionally, she delivers lectures tailored for teachers, principals, student health personnel, and specialists. These lectures cover various topics, primarily focusing on her research areas, including teaching methodologies and child mindsets within ESSENCE. Furthermore, Ida conducts educational sessions for psychologists across Sweden, aimed at enhancing their expertise in psychological assessments related to intellectual disabilities.

Research interests

In December 2013, Ida presented her dissertation, which delved into the prevalence, associated functional challenges, and longitudinal outcomes of children – now young adults – born to mothers with mild intellectual disabilities.

Following her dissertation, Ida initiated a collaboration with the SUF Resource Centre in Uppsala, focusing on children of parents with intellectual disabilities. Moreover, she actively engages in a group alongside the Svenska skolläkarföreningen, collaborating with child neurologists and neuropsychologists. Together, they have developed a document aimed at enhancing patient safety for children and adolescents identified at school with difficulties indicative of mild intellectual disabilities.

Ida and her colleagues have conducted several studies on parents diagnosed with intellectual disabilities, particularly examining the impact on their children. Notably, children of parents with intellectual disabilities face elevated risks of accidents, abuse, neglect, and violence, with a considerable portion not raised by their biological mothers.

Furthermore, Ida has been working on a school project funded by the Special Needs Education Agency, investigating the support needs of students to achieve 6th-grade goals. Her research focuses on understanding how cognitive difficulties, such as those encompassed by ESSENCE, influence academic attainment. This project has prompted efforts to review the grading system, Likvärdiga betyg och meritvärden (Dir. 2023:95).

Additionally, Ida has contributed to research projects concerning diabetes management in children with ESSENCE and severe diabetes.