Special education teachers for visually impaired students rely on tools such as raised-line maps (RLMs) to teach spatial knowledge. These tools do not fully and adequately meet the needs of the teachers because they are long to produce, expensive, and not versatile enough to provide rapid updating of the content. For instance, the same RLM can barely be used during different lessons. In additio...

PURPOSE To identify the causes of blindness and visual impairment among students in integrated schools for the blind in Nepal. METHODS A total of 778 students from all 67 integrated schools for the blind in Nepal were examined using the World Health Organization/Prevention of Blindness Eye Examination Record for Children with Blindness and Low Vision during the study period of 3 years. RESU...

In the words of Gary Doern, Ph.D., a colleague, collaborator, and friend, “Few people have made more significant and lasting contributions to the field of clinical microbiology than has Jim Jorgensen, not only as a dedicated practitioner but also as an extremely productive researcher, an uncommonly effective educator, a broad reaching author, and a lifelong advocate for the discipline.” Such se...

BACKGROUND Deafness is a common neural-sensory impairment which leads to lower life quality, withdrawal, social activities reduction, and rejection feeling. So, it is important to plan suitable training programs for mental health promotion of deaf children. Emotional intelligence training is one of these programs. The present study was aimed to determine the effectiveness of emotional intellige...

This study aimed to assess different methods for managing group work scenarios in actual seminar classes at higher education institutions, utilizing action research techniques and accounting hearing-impaired students, so that all types of students may progress smoothly. In reviewing participants’ reflections, we found the speed tasks fell as a result team intervention, causing feel more ease ps...

purpose: to estimate the magnitude and causes of visual impairment (vi) in subjects aged ≥ 50 years in varamin district in 2009 using the proposed method by the world health organization (who). method: this cross sectional population based survey was performed in varamin targeting people over the age of 50 years using the proportional probabilities to size and cluster compact segment sampling m...

introduction: online medicare is a method in which parts of a medical process, whether its diagnostics, monitoring or the treatment itself will be completed by using online services. at the first step the students were registered for using the system. they participated in estimating depression scale; anxiety scale and clinical interview by online medical care system.  subsequently, the lab exam...