Different types of software applications for mentally disabled persons are presented here, with their advantages and drawbacks. The specification of an authoring system is emphasized in this paper, as work is currently in progress to develop such a system in our university.

pedestrian streets as one type of urban public spaces have an important role in improving the quality of urban life. in iran, planning and designing of pedestrian streets is in its primary steps. in spite of starting this approach in iran, and designing several pedestrian streets, there are still not organized studies about quality assessment of pedestrian streets. as a result, the strength and...

in recent years, two positive and effective developments have occurred in iran's legal system regarding the realization of the rights belonging to disabled people. in 1999, the comprehensive act for protection of rights of disabled persons was adopted; and in 2009, iran joined the convention on the rights of persons with disabilities. the present paper studies the obligations of the islami...

introduction: for cultural development and growth of a community, the participation of all individuals, including physically disabled people are required. in this study, the compliance rate of public and academic libraries and information centers’ building and equipment in zanjan, iran was determined according to the international standards for the physically handicapped, from the perspective o...

background: more than a billion people have some form of disabilities worldwide. persons living with a disability have many needs (including physically, mentally, and socially needs). estimating the size of disabled population is a challenge in health systems. an innovative indirect method to estimate the size of populations is network scale up (nsu) having widely used for hidden populations. t...

This paper discusses an investigation carried out in designing and testing neurorehabiliatory communication interfaces for nonverbal quadriplegic and other clinically brain damaged persons. For many years this group of people could not communicate with the outside world and this was accepted as norm. This important study collected the information from neurologically disabled persons by conducti...

Ableism is a powerful social force that causes persons with disabilities to suffer exclusion. The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is based on the human rights principles of equality and freedom for all people. This Convention contains two human rights instruments: the principle of accessibility and the means of reasonable accommodation, which can be used to prote...

background: the aim of present study was to determine the influence of stress management on affective control and distress tolerance in mothers of children with sensory-motor disabilities. methods: this current study was a study with pretest-posttest and treatment group. the thirty mothers of children with sensory-motor disabilities were selected from sensory-motor disabilities center in qum by...