MF-$Q, 83 HC-41.67 Plus Postage. *Blind; Diagnostic Teaching; Elementary Education; Exceptional Child Research; *Instructional Materials; Material Development; Multiply Handicapped; *Programed Instruction; *Severely Handicapped; *Visually Handicapped Mobility; *Visually Handicapped Orientation A research project was conducted to investigate sensory, concept, and locomotion skills in severe mult...

OBJECTIVE This project was aimed at designing and putting an electronic prototype into practice for improving the initial time taken by visually handicapped people for learning Braille, especially children. METHODS This project was mainly based on a prototype digital electronic device which identifies and translates material written by a user in Braille by a voice synthesis system, producing ...

The dumb and deaf people have the most common problem of communication with normal people.The physically challenged who are disabled to talk hear need find a way medium through which they can express their thoughts solve problems. Thus, work upon it some experts designed Sign Language. This language is different for countries then implemented performing experiments over long times. Indian Langu...

This paper introduces a mobile application (app) game for teaching hearing handicapped children. Hearing handicapped children are acknowledged to have problems for teaching and learning. Addressing the problems of teaching hearing handicapped children needs to take the advantages from the recent advanced mobile technology, such as mobile app game. Strategies will vary from the traditional metho...

Society's attitude toward physical and mental disabilities has varied considerably over the centuries and among cultures. Survival of the fittest and man's obsession with "normalcy" have usually predominated. Only those handicapped people who were the most hardy, wise, forceful, clever, or who had a combination of such attributes were able to break through the flimsy but tightly woven "rejectio...

BACKGROUND Dysphagia and feeding intolerance are common in neurologically handicapped children. The aim is to determine the etiologies of feeding intolerance in neurologically handicapped children who are intolerant of tube feedings. METHODS Eighteen neurologically handicapped children, followed in the Tube Feeding Clinic at the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin who were intolerant of gastrost...

Sterilization of mentally handicapped individuals occurs today despite little consensus in the medical community as to when sterilization is appropriate (Zurawin & Paransky, 2003). In addition, each state has different laws regarding sterilization of the mentally handicapped. Thus, nurses and nurse practitioners must navigate the complex social issues and legal uncertainties related to steriliz...

In this paper, we describe the formatting guidelines for IJCA Journal Submission. This paper presents a system for communication and control by disabled people based on automatic recognition of phonemes. This system allows users to navigate around an alphabet board by making phonemic utterances, thus enabling the user to spell out messages. Phoneme recognition provides an alternative to speech ...

Of 31 severely mentally and physically handicapped children with gastroesophageal reflux treated with a standard medical regimen, only eight (26%) had complete or partial therapeutic response. Fourteen of 23 medical failures underwent Nissen fundoplication with a good therapeutic response in 12. There were 12 intra- and postoperative complications in six surgical patients. Two late postoperativ...