objective: the purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of life skills training on decreasing social phobia (sp) disorder in students with hearing impairment. methods: the sample included 30 male students, age range from 8 to 18 years with hearing impairment recruited from exceptional schools. their age and iq were matched. they were randomly assigned into experimental and contr...

objectives: the present study has been conducted to determine the effectiveness of cognitivebehavioral group-therapy on the development of visually impaired adolescents' self-concept. methods: this study is a semi-experimental pre-test and post-test model. the study population consisted of visually impaired male students of the primary and secondary high school at the omid-e-mashhad educational...

background: plantar fasciitis is the most common cause of heel pain. sonography has been proposed for early and differential diagnosis of heel pain. materials and methods: the study was performed on patients with plantar fasciitis (n=40). after completing the demographic data, the pain intensity was measured using visual analogue scale (vas); foot and ankle function by foot and ankle ability me...

the use of the internet as a source of information gathering, self-help and support is becoming increasingly recognized. parents and professionals of children with hearing impairment have been shown to seek information about different communication approaches online. cued speech is a very new approach to persian speaking pupils. our aim was to develop a useful website to give related informatio...

the main goal of early detection of hearing impairment in children is early intervention. there is growing interest in early detection of hearing impairment in developing countries. the main purpose of this study was to investigate the spoken language development in severe to profound hearing impaired children and compared their speech intelligibility with normal hearing children at the same ag...

backgroundrickets is a disorder due to impaired metabolism of bone mineralization which caused by low concentrations of extra-cellular calcium or phosphate. in children, hypophosphatemic rickets (hr) happen malabsorption of phosphate and increasing of renal tubular loss.case presentation we present the case of a 4-year-old girl who had medical history of hr with failure to thrive (ftt). child h...

BACKGROUND The estimated prevalence rate of Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD) in children is 6 per 1.000. Parenting children who are intellectually impaired and have PDDs is known to be linked to the impaired well-being of the parents themselves. However, there is still little available data on health-related quality of life (HRQL) in parents of children with Asperger Syndrome (AS) and Hi...

Adverse environmental exposures in pregnancy can significantly alter the development of the fetus resulting in impaired child neurodevelopment. Such exposures can lead to epigenetic alterations like DNA methylation, which may be a marker of poor cognitive, motor and behavioral outcomes in the infant. Here we review studies that have assessed DNA methylation in cord blood following maternal expo...

background: the relationship between lichen planus (lp) and diabetes was studied previously, but the re-sults were in conflict. the aim of this study was to find the prevalence of diabetes mellitus (dm) in patients with lp among iranian patients. methods: in this study, 80 patients with lp were enrolled. they referred to dermatology clinic of our hospital during one year. a self-designed checkl...