objectives: stuttering is one of the most prevalent speech and language disorders. symptomology of stuttering has been surveyed from different aspects such as biological, developmental, environmental, emotional, learning and linguistic. previous researches in english-speaking people have suggested that some linguistic features such as word meanings may play a role in the frequency of speech non...

This study examined the effects of deprivation on engagement in activities for 3 adult men with developmental disabilities. First, an assessment was conducted to identify a high- and a low-preference activity for each participant. Second, the high-preference activity was made available following three amounts of deprivation of the activity (15 min, 2 hr, and 1 to 4 days); the low-preference act...

Congenital amusia (amusia, hereafter) is a developmental disorder that impacts negatively on the perception of music. Psychophysical testing suggests that individuals with amusia have above average thresholds for detection of pitch change and pitch direction discrimination; however, a low-level auditory perceptual problem cannot completely explain the disorder, since discrimination of melodies ...

Training needs and current status of training for direct support staff were identified in one southeastern state. Data sources were (a) direct support staff, (b) administrators of direct support staff, and (c) consumers with developmental disabilities. Stratified sampling was used to gather data from 108 administrators and 170 direct support staff utilizing mail surveys and from 179 focus group...

Nowadays, the focus of developmental studies is shifting away from formal models of developmental pathways that are characterised by flow charts of controlling factors connected by arrows, to mechanistic models that explain developmental processes at the cellular level. Surprisingly, this shift towards a cellular view of developmental biology is occurring simultaneously across a range of model ...

how to cite this article: karimzadeh p, jafari n, nejad biglari h, jabbehdari j, khayat zadeh s, ahmad abadi f, lotfi a. neurometabolic diagnosis in children who referred as neurodevelopmental delay (a practical criteria, in iranian pediatric patients). iran j child neurol. summer 2016; 10(3):73-81.   objective we aimed to investigate the clinical and para clinical manifestations of neuro metab...

objectives: the aim of this study was to compare the fine motor development between low birth weight (lbw) infants and normal birth weight infants (nbw) at the age of 8-12 months by using the peabody developmental motor scale-2 (pdms-2) . methods: this was a non experimental and cross sectional study which was conducted on the 18 lbw infants and 14 normal infants. by referring to the profile of...