Children are often forced into mainstream schools while special needs schools are being shut down. Children with phonological disorders in mainstream schools go through fear, shame and frustration of not being understood or misunderstood. The proposed research attempts to address this issue by way of designing and developing a prototype for an assistive device that would help special needs chil...

December 1964 2nd. Replying to a question from Miss Joan Quennell, the Secretary of State for the Department of Education and Science, Mr. Michael Stewart, said that there were 17 special schools for maladjusted children and 9 independent schools wholly or mainly for maladjusted children and 9 independent schools wholly or mainly for maladjusted children; 580 extra places in special schools, in...

Objectives: The most distinctive group of people with sensory disabilities is those with visual impairment. This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between behavioral problems and demographic variables in students with visual impairment in the academic year of 2018-2019 in Tehran City, Iran. Methods: This cross-sectional, descriptive, and analytical study was conducted on students with v...

OBJECTIVE To obtain baseline pre-intervention prevalence levels of iodine deficiency and parasitic and helminth infections in school-going children in Bie Province, Angola. DESIGN A cross-sectional study conducted in randomly selected schools. The target population was children aged 6-10 years. SETTING Bie Province, Angola. SUBJECTS A total of 1029 children sampled, with 791 stool samples...

The morality of an individual forms the basis personality and needs to be fostered nurtured. Although exists in every phase life, it is apparent that more effective if starts at a young age must afforded exceptional attention by parents. This research aimed obtain views Islamic Education teachers who teach Pre-schools Ministry Malaysia through in-depth interviews on what role parents should pla...

Abstract International migration reconfigures rural places by engaging localities with globalising forces. Accommodating newcomers, be they farming labourers or lifestyle migrants is a challenge at the local level due to clash of interests, different visions on how land should managed and development promoted. Using Odemira as case study, paper has two goals: show change brought about foreign i...

BACKGROUND Obesity is an emerging problem in Pakistan. The authors sought to determine prevalence of obesity and malnutrition in school-going children, from grades 6(th) to 8(th) of different schools of Karachi and assess associations that affect the weight of the children. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS A cross sectional study design with children studying in grades 6(th) to 8(th) grade, in ...

BACKGROUND In 2008, the Irish Government initiated a pilot Healthy Schools Programme based on the World Health Organization Health Promoting Schools Model among children attending schools officially designated as urban and disadvantaged. We present here the first results on physical and emotional health and the relationship between childhood depression and demographic and socioeconomic factors....

statement of problem: dental caries are considered as one of the most common health problems and have been shown to be more prevalent in children. purpose: the aim of this cross-sectional study was to determine the distribution of dental caries among 400 twelve-year-old schoolchildren, in the al-mukalla area in yemen. materials and methods: multistage stratified sampling was used to obtain a sa...