Objectives: The birth and presence of an exceptional child in a family can be considered as an undesirable challenging event. This event may be associated with stress, frustration, sadness, and despair. This study aimed to examine the relationship of religious coping styles with general health and psychological well-being among mothers of mentally disabled children. Methods: This cross-section...

Twenty intermediate and 16 primary grade children were administered sociometric questionnaires to determine their social acceptance of three groups of children: normal children, educable mentally handicapped who were integrated into the academic routine of a nongraded school, and educables who remained segregated in a self-contained class. Results were felt to show that both integrated and segr...

Professor Kirk's masterly work is a comprehensive review of the proble^15 > be solved and the procedures to be adopted for the education of various categ j of exceptional children, including the intellectually-gifted, the mentally-reta^ the deaf and hard-of-hearing, the blind and partially sighted, the cerebral palsied ^ the crippled, the speech-handicapped, and the emotionally and socially mal...

Improving the motor fitness of mentally retarded children is of importance for their health. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of a chosen physical and motor fitness training program on the static and dynamic balance of mentally retarded female students. Thirty-eight high school students (average age 18.63 ± 1.3 years, average height 153.19 ± 6.98 cm, and average weight 58.95 ± ...

background entamoeba histolytica/entamoeba dispar and enterobius vermicularis are the major health problems in the developing countries especially in iran. the prevalence of infection is variable among different social groups in the world. objectives since elderly and mentally retarded are high risk group, the present survey was carried out in order to determine the prevalence of intestinal par...

Introduction: Presence of mentally retarded children in every family affects on the structure and mental health of family specially parents. The purpose of this research is the comparison of the mean of psychological well-being, mental health and self-esteem between parents of normal and educable students. Materials & Methods: This was causal- comparative and retrospective study and the instru...

A new bioelectronic system for detecting and measuring voice parameters (TONAR) was used to quantify nasality in 50 educable mentally retarded children. Results indicated that over one-third of the children evaluated were hypemasal. The high prevalence of excessive nasality in EMR children was contrasted with (1) normative data on 78 nonretarded children collected with the bioelectronic system ...

Human health is highly dependent on the condition of health-related physical fitness and particularly body composition. Adolescence is unique in this regard, especially when the adolescents are mentally retarded, about whom information on physical fitness is limited. Thus, the objective of this paper was to study the components of health-related physical fitness with emphasis on body composit...