Almost 300,000 children in the United States from birth to 3 years of age are affected by a developmental disability. Disabilities have a lasting effect on a child’s development and, in turn, may have a psychosocial impact on the child’s family. In addition, the limitations of a child with a disability are often related to family members’ stress, depression, and feelings of helplessness. Accord...

introduction: newborn hearing screening leads to the early detection of hearing impairment. the aim of screening is to decrease or remove the effect of hearing impairment on development of speech and language by timely diagnosis and effective treatment. a number of risk factors lead to delayed start of decreased hearing ability including: 1. congenital infection with cytomegalovirus  (cmv) viru...

OBJECTIVE After the September 11 terrorist attacks, many adults and children received counseling. The authors assessed the prevalence and correlates of counseling for experiences related to the disaster received by children aged four to 18 years living in Manhattan. METHODS From a representative sample of 1,008 adult residents of Manhattan who were living below 110th Street five to eight week...

internationally early intervention programmes for infants and preschoolers with disabilities have proved to be remarkably successful. in many countries, they began with teachers for visually impaired or hearing impaired children visiting the family home to teach parents how they could overcome the child's impairments. the logic of early intervention was inequitable. for example, the sooner...

child with down's syndrome is an individual who is suitable and eligible to receive early intervention services. this study aimed to measure the family outcome among parents of down syndrome children, on the impact of receiving early intervention and identify the factors influencing it.a cross sectional was conducted from april 2009 until january 2010 with a total of 125 parents of children wit...

conclusions the intervention was successful in improving most aspects of hairdressing. in women, safety and healthy behaviors were affected more than men. however, in men salons, environmental and physical conditions had greater improvement. we suggest that health educational programs for hairdressers should be integrated into their training course. results the findings revealed a significant i...

purpose: to compare early maladaptive schemas and coping styles in drug dependent and non-dependent prisoners of zahedan city.   materials and methods: this was an ex post facto study. the population of the study consisted of all men prisoners of zahedan prison in 2013. the participants were 240 prisoners among which 120 prisoners were selected by convenience sampling method and the rest by sim...