introduction: for cultural development and growth of a community, the participation of all individuals, including physically disabled people are required. in this study, the compliance rate of public and academic libraries and information centers’ building and equipment in zanjan, iran was determined according to the international standards for the physically handicapped, from the perspective o...

In July, 1935, the City of Nottingham Education Committee appointed Miss A. M. Gibson as a Remedial Teacher to supplement the provision for children who are educationally handicapped. Miss Gibson is an experienced teacher who hasi also studied Clinical Psychology at the Institute of Medical Psychology and has taken the Academic Diploma in Psychology of the University of London. In Nottingham, i...

This paper describes to develop an intelligent wheelchair which is useful to physically disabled people with introducing control and navigational intelligence. Some people with severely handicapped people that affect hand movements, motor is not possible to drive a common electric wheelchair. In Powered wheelchair is not able to drive correctly with the joystick. It proposed the design of Intel...

Disability is understood as a state of backwardness or physical, psychological, intellectual, and thinking limitations, which are different from normal humans. These limitations usually hinder the mobility disabled require assistance To increase self-confidence definable, we need residential design solution suitable for users. The activities that often routinely carried out by at home, so defin...

The majority of foreign body ingestions occur in the pediatric population, with a peak incidence between the ages of 6 months and 6 years. Safety during dental treatment of children cannot be overemphasized. Uncooperative, mentally and physically handicapped children are more prone to ingestion or aspiration of dental instruments than other populations. In any event, it is recommended that dent...

When used with physically handicapped and learning disabled children, computer-based LOGO activities can serve diagnostic and therapeutic purposes, as well as provide insights into theories of knowledge representation and cognitive functioning in general. The impact of LOGO flows from the active role taken by the students in initiating and controlling their activities; from the specifically spa...

Physical therapists employed in public schools may be responsible for the evaluation and treatment of not only physically handicapped children, but also children who have moderate to severe motor disabilities secondary to mental retardation. The purpose of this article is to suggest appropriate assessment and treatment techniques for these children. General principles of intervention based on n...

UNDER the Chairmanship of Mr. Kenneth Robinson, M.P., a whole session of the Fifth British National Conference on Social Welfare?held in London at the beginning of January 1964?was devoted to consideration of "Community Care". The groups selected as needing such care were "The Mentally Disordered"; "The Physically Handicapped"; "The Delinquent"; and "Children out of their own homes". (Preparato...

No one doubts that serious intellectual or physical defect handicaps the sufferer in his task of earning a living, just as no one doubts that high intellectual and physical gifts are an advantage. There are, however, examples of people who are lacking neither an adequate intellectual nor physical equipment, but who are nevertheless handicapped. The handicap is due to some inadequacy of function...

With this contribution I would like to givea general account of new attempts in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) to provide suitable jobs for emotionally handi capped people. It concerns jobs in enterprises on the general labour market which have been especially created for the emotionally handicapped in order to make social access possible for them. Just as certain physical changes in env...