Objectives: Quality of life for disabled children often has been assessed based on functional status or parental perceptions rather than direct reports from the children. The objective of this study was evaluating the quality of life of mothers with disabled children. Methods: There is widespread acceptance of the need for disabled children to be fully integrated into society but there needs...

Background & Aims: Physical activity in leisure time can increase life expectancy in disabled people via increasing freshness, communicating with others, and participating in community activities and can prevent withdrawal and malaise. The aim of this research was surveying on barriers for wheelchair-user disabled people in their recreational activities in southeast of Iran. Methods: In functio...

Abstract Whether citizens are better represented by politicians ‘like them’ has been the subject of much debate and analysis. Yet, this scholarship largely ignored 1 in 5 people who disabled experience economic, social political marginalization. Linking voter candidate data from 2015 British general election, study examines whether elites. It analyses effects disability on both preferences pref...

In his preface (which is over a third of the length of Nigel's own contribution) Mr. Hunt writes with understandable emotion and some lack of objectivity. He certainly seems to have been unfortunate in his experience of 'experts' and some of the statutory services for the mentally handicapped. It would be a pity if members of the general public and the parents of other mongols were persuaded by...

objectives: civil rights may cover different aspects of citizens’ lives. all the members of the society should have equal access to the public facilities and public transportation system. barriers and obstacles in society may limit the accessibility of these facilities to the disabled people. methods: this article contains a part of the results in a phenomenological study of the disability righ...

A disability is a restriction or lack of ability to perform an activity in a manner or within the range considered normal for a human being. It has never received adequate attention from society. Ignorance, lack of awareness and lack of knowledge make the invisible disability. Most of the authorities appointed the legislation are not fully functional. This study was to find out family awareness...

Aims: Adequate physical activity and mobility positively affect the mental health of people, especially people with special needs. This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of sports activities on cognitive emotion regulation strategies, perceived psychological stress, and psychological hardiness of veterans and the disabled.  Instrument & Methods: The statistical sample included 100 p...