Purpose: The aim of the present study was to assess family participation in the therapeutic process of children with hearing impairment using hearing aids and/or cochlear implants enrolled at the Educational Audiology Clinic and Center for Interdisciplinary Studies on Hearing, Language and Education. Methods: This study was conducted with 25 families of children with hearing impairment between ...

The People of India database of the Anthropological Survey of India documents 631 cultural, ecological, and economic traits of the 4635 communities to which the entire Indian population is assigned. Focusing on 1342 communities of South India, we looked for correlates of low (1 or 2 children) and high (4 or more children) desired family size (DFS) reported as the norm for any given community by...

Resource limitations can often result in creative solutions. This has been the case with the evolution of our parent education and support group, “#34;Restore" which has enabled timely access to effective treatment. The Early Intervention team is a multidisciplinary team of 1.5 clinicians, (social work/ dietitian/ clinical psychologist) who offer individual, family therapy and now group parent ...

objective: the purpose of this study was to examine the impact of early family-centered psychological and educational interventions on adaptive behaviors in children with down syndrome (ds). method: utilizing an experimental pretest-posttest control group design, parents of 36 children with ds were selected in isfahan. vineland adaptive behavior scale was used to assess adaptive behavior. resul...