objectives: the blind and visually disabled people form a predominant group in the disabled society and hence, need greater attention. most of the rehabilitation therapists, especially occupational therapists, do not focus on this group. thus, the aim of the study is to shed light on the issue of negligent attitude of rehabilitation therapists, especially occupational therapists, toward blind a...

this study was conducted to determine the effects of group counseling through transactional analysis on improvement of depression in physically disabled women (20-40 years old) in kashan. the research was performed in semi-experimentally method, thus 40 patients were selected randomly among of physicaly disabled women of kashaneh mehr center of kashan in 2014 year. then, theey were divided in t...

AIM The aim of this study was to examine the desire of the parents who had a chronically disabled child to have other children and to investigate the effect of having a disabled child on the relationship of the parents. MATERIAL AND METHODS The families of 145 chronically disabled children were included in the study. After the sociodemographic information belonging to the child and family wer...

• Families with a disabled child are more likely to be renting their homes than families with non-disabled children. Whilst there has been an increase in the proportion of familes as a whole being home-owners, the proportion of families with a disable child becoming home-owners has remained the same. • Families with a disabled child are less likely to be living in a decent home compared to fami...

1 by the World Health Organization and the World Bank marks a watershed in the history of how disability should be understood by healthcare practitioners. Along with a special issue of the Lancet, 2 this report marks recognition by organised healthcare that healthcare practitioners acted paternalistically towards disabled people, often deciding on their behalf what is in their best interests. 3...

background disability is a relatively common problem in children. the pattern of admission in these children and their common infections may differ from other children because of their special disabilities. objectives we aimed to determine common infectious diseases resulting in admission of these children to our hospital. patients and methods between september 2006 and september 2007, 60 disab...