BACKGROUND Most information on the causes of blindness has come from examining children in special education. To obtain a more representative population-based sample of children, a novel method was developed for ascertaining severe visually impaired (SVI) or blind (BL) children by training local volunteers to act as key informants (KIs). OBJECTIVE To compare the demography and cause of blindn...

This paper is a study of the main characteristics of the marital status and family life of old blind people in Croatia, as well as the perception of their position in the family. Another aim is to establish whether segments of the elderly blind population differ significantly in their marital and family status with reference to the following variables: sex, age, place of residence, age at which...

OBJECTIVES Knowledge about the prevalence of allergies to foods in childhood and adolescence is incomplete. The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of allergies to milk, egg, cod, and wheat using reported data, clinical examinations, and double-blind placebo-controlled food challenges, and to describe the phenotypes of reported food hypersensitivity in a cohort of Swedish sc...

An important component in learning is the method. The success or failure of a activity depends on method used. Because it that determines how process carried out classroom. PAI for ABK used by teachers SLB so material presented easy to understand and understand, students can implement their understanding everyday life. This study aims identify analyze children with special needs at Negeri 1 Lom...

BACKGROUND Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder is an early-onset, clinically heterogenous disorder of inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsiveness. The diagnosis and treatment of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder continues to raise controversy, and, there is also an increase in treatment options. In this 6-week double blind, placebo controlled-trial, we assessed the effects of zinc...

RETROLENTAL fibroplasia is a major cause of blindness in children. It is usually found in premature children; that is to say, in those with a birthweight of under 5j lb (2,500 g.). In the years that followed Terry's original description the incidence of the disease rose steeply and alarmingly. Krause (1955) has estimated that 10,000 children are partly or completely blind from retrolental fibro...

In a previous study [1] on vowel rounding anticipatory perception through a fricative consonant stream with a gating paradigm, we discovered that auditory information could be, in this VCV frame, ahead of visual information, and even of audiovisual information (hence A>AV>V). We propose here to extend this experiment to different modality-impaired groups of adults and children, namely: (i) to b...