Objective: Individuals suffering from hoarding disorder tend to collect objects, belongings, and riches excessively. They are not able to or do not want to throw away the throng of worthless and useless items they have aggregated. Some psychological factors, especially maladaptive schemas and immature defense mechanisms can play a crucial role in the development and maintenance of hoarding diso...

Objectives: The prevalence of consanguineous marriage is about 30 % in Iran and this can increase the probability of incidence of genetic impairments such as hearing impairments. Hearing impairment in comparison with other hereditary disorders is the most incident. The purpose of this survey is to identify the prevalence of consanguinity among the parents of sensoryneural hearing impaired stude...

OBJECTIVE This study surveyed all Iraqi medical schools and a cross-section of Iraqi medical students regarding their institutional and student experiences of medical education amidst ongoing conflict. The objective was to better understand the current resources and challenges facing medical schools, and the impacts of conflict on the training landscape and student experience, to provide eviden...

We are developing a real-time lecture transcription system for hearing impaired students in university classrooms. The automatic speech recognition (ASR) system is adapted to individual lecture courses and lecturers, to enhance the recognition accuracy. The ASR results are selectively corrected by a human editor, through a dedicated interface, before presenting to the students. An efficient ada...

INTRODUCTION Deaf are not able to communicate with other community members due to hearing impaired. Providing health care for deaf is more complex because of their communication problems. Multimedia tools can provide multiple tangible concepts (movie, subtitles, and sign language) for the deaf and hard of hearing. In this study, identify the priority health needs of deaf students in primary sch...

Under the epidemic situation, SPOC mixed teaching model is an important form of higher education for students with disabilities. This paper introduced advantages this in classroom hearing-impaired, and took college physics experiment class as example to introduce specific implementation methods. The results showed that can well motivate learning initiative hearing-impaired. Also, significantly ...