Comments by the Guest Editor

Guest Editor\'s Note

Although Occupational Therapy in Iran is relatively a new profession, it has been well progressed, providing various services for people with all kinds of disabilities. As such, in the last decades, OT has been recognized as the major demand in all governmental, private and NGO sectors. Due to this demand, occupational therapy training programs have been increased from three into ten, expecting...

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Due to their maturity and the relative low cost of their implementations, robotics technologies play an everincreasing role in many fields; the number of applications of robotics technologies to the consumer market is increasing at a surprising rate. Transportation—meaning both the travel of people and the movement of goods—is a primary need in our life. Among the many application areas that ro...

Letter from the Guest Editor

Letter from the Guest Editor

Message from the Guest Editor

The Prince Salman Center for Disability Research who gracefully sponsored the publication of this Supplement, also funded a pilot project on neural tube defects, which lead to the ideas that helped compiling and recruiting articles for it. With my other colleagues at the various health institutes who contributed sincerely and effectively to this endeavor, we feel indebted to the Prince Salman C...