introduction: mental retardation, is one of the most common causes for referral to genetic counseling centers, and is one of the greatest challenges in health care services in the world. down syndrome is the most common chromosomal abnormalities in humans. methods: this study performed in medical genetic counseling center of welfare organization in south of iran with high consanguineous marriag...

proper nutrition plays an important role in physical and cognitive development of children. the early diagnosis and treatment of eating problems is very important. this study aimed to survey eating problems of children with down syndrome. in this descriptive-analytic study, an eating problem test used to survey eating problems of children with down syndrome in exceptional schools. the findings ...

aim and background: the siblings of children with down syndrome are at risk for psychological disorders.therefore the aim of this study was to investigae the effectiveness of resiliencetraining on mental health in siblings of children with down syndrome.   methods and materials: in the present study a semi- experimental design with pretest-posttest and follow up design was utilized. the statist...

objectives: one of the most effective methods to describe speech disorders is the measurement of speech intelligibility. the speech intelligibility indicates the extent of acoustic signals that correctly speaker produces and hearer receives. the purpose of this study was to investigate the speech intelligibility in the persian children with down syndrome, age range was 3 to 5 years, who had spo...

BACKGROUND In this study, we investigated the early development of stress in mothers of children with Down syndrome, compared with mothers of children with developmental disabilities of mixed aetiologies. Growth modelling analyses were used to explore: (1) whether mothers of children with Down syndrome demonstrated distinct patterns of stress during their children's early development, compared ...