AbstractObjectives: The purpose of this study was to compare the quality of life between blind students and their sighted counterparts in Tehran. Method: The subjects of this study were 93 blind students (18 girls and 75 boys) aged 15 and over, residing in Tehran and studying at Tehran schools for exceptional children. The comparison group was selected through a multi-stage random sampling from...

the purpose of this study was to examine the english language needs of medical students at tehran university of medical sciences . analysis of the needs took place for three groups: 320 undergraduate students, 30 postgraduate students and 20 university instructors. a triangulation approach to collect data was used in which a combination of the quantitative (using the questionnaires) and qualita...

Background & Purpose: Students with mental disability educable have more of oppositional defiant disorder than normal children. So,The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of parental management training on reducing the symptoms of oppositional defiant disorder in students with mental disability educable. Method: This research was a quasi-experimental method with pre-test and po...

Background: Twice exceptional group is consisting of children who are gifted but have behavioral, emotional, social or academic problems. They are the most misjudged, misunderstood, and neglected segment of exceptional groups. Parents, teachers and professionals have problems in detecting giftedness in disabled children so we lose their abilities as intelligent people. Conclusion: Early ident...

the aim of conducting this study was to investigate the foreign language learning needs of undergraduate economics students and business management students in faculties of social sciences of alzahra and azad naragh university. in the study, which was designed on the basis of a qualitative-quantitative basis using interviews and questionnaires, 146 female undergraduate business management as we...

this study aimed to investigate the effects of listening strategy training on iranian efl learners listening comprehension and use of such strategies. this work, employing an experimental methodology, was conducted among 60 adult efl learners from a language institute in isfahan, iran, as participants. the participants, who were selected based on the results of a placement test, were assigned t...

The purpose of this research is to analyze the work life quality of exceptional schools’ teachers. For this purpose, a sample of 160 teachers using the classified random sampling method across the Bushehr exceptional schools teachers in the academic year 2010-2011 was selected. To collect the data, work life quality questionnaire was used and its admissibility and reliability was calculated and...

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of social skills training on social development and family performance in slow-paced students. Method: The research method was quasi-experimental with pre-test-post-test design with experimental and control groups. The statistical population included 40 students of Simorgh Exceptional School. 20 students were selected by convenience...

abstract although music possesses some kind of power and using it has been welcome by many students in language classrooms, it seems that they take a non-serious image of the lesson while listening to songs and they may think that it is a matter of fun. the main objective of the present study was to investigate whether learning a foreign language through musical texts (songs) can have an impac...