the aim of the current study was to predict marital satisfaction from the magnitude of their forgiveness. the research design was correlational study and the same vein, to fulfill the stated goal 88 mothers of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities by means of accessible sampling procedure, and afrooz marital satisfaction (2011) as well as enright forgiveness inventory standa...

The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of research literature that has assessed Expressed Emotion (EE) with the Five Minute Speech Sample (FMSS) in parents of children with intellectual disabilities (ID). Very little attention has been paid to the parenting relationship in families in which a member has cognitive disabilities. The research that has been carried out has investigated in...

Comprehensive reading instruction for students with intellectual disabilities: Findings from the first three years of a longitudinal study. This longitudinal experimental study showed that students with intellectual disabilities can learn to read given consistent, explicit, and comprehensive reading instruction over an extended period of time. This article presented strategies for providing stu...

Executive functions are higher order functions on the top level in the cognitive hierarchy, which implies the presence of basic intellectual functions in respect to which they are superior. Executive functions thus play the role of controller and modulator of cognitive functions. It is believed that the position of executive functions, i.e. the frontal lobe, (Freeman, 2000) is responsible for t...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of hippotherapy exercise on the thickness of deep abdominal muscles and daily activities of children with intellectual disabilities. [Subjects and Methods] Seven children with intellectual disabilities were treated with hippotherapy for 30 minutes twice a week for 6 weeks. The thickness of deep abdominal muscles and Functional Ind...

The aim of this study was to examine the intervention effect of repeated retrieval with touching the area of selfbody on the performance of human figure drawing in preschool children with mild intellectual disabilities. Especially, this study applied the retrieval practice task to improve the performance of drawing in preschool children. In the intervention group, firstly, children with/without...

Aim. Children with developmental disabilities generally experience more pain than the normal children. Description of pain is generally difficult in children and more so in children with intellectual disabilities. The study aimed at evaluating dental pain in children with intellectual disabilities. Methods. The survey was carried out in an institution caring for intellectually disabled children...

Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties and the factor structure of the Behavior Problems Inventory (BPI-01) among students with intellectual disabilities in Iran. Methods: The Persian version of BPI-01 was administered to the care staff of Iranian children and adolescents (n=591) who had been detected as suffering from intellectual disabilities. Iran...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the frequency of developmental defects of enamel (DDE) in children with intellectual disability. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Children aged 5-18 years (72 children with intellectual disabilities and 72 controls) were included in the study. All the teeth were screened for developmental defects of enamel using the modified Developmental defects of enamel (mDDE) index. RESULT...