Objective In our community, there are many children and adults who have certain distinctive aspects of mental, physical, emotional, or behavioral characteristics. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of eight weeks play therapy program on the balance of the mentally retarded children. On this basis according to the needs of the children to play for freshness and lack of research ...

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of eight weeks corrective games on kyphosis angle and postural control in kyphotic mentally retarded children. Method: Thirty mentally retarded girls children with increase normal thoracic kyphosis (kyphosis angle≥40) were selected and randomly divided in two groups training group (N=15 with mean average 12/06±2/8 years old, Height 145±1/33c...

Background & Objectives: Intestinal parasites are of the most important infections and health problems throughout the world, especially in the developing countries. The mentally retarded are at high risk for this type of parasitic infections. Thus, this study aimed to investigate the prevalence of intestinal parasites in the mentally retarded patients. Materials and Methods: This cross-sec...

Background and Aim: Children need to have appropriate sensory stimulation, sensory stimulation improve motor skills and competence for the children to school. Such as of these stimulations is vestibular stimulation. Many of the educable mentally disability child are the poor motor coordination and balance that some of these children, who are known as developmental coordination disorder (DCD). T...

Introduction: Promoting psycologic health of the schools is one of the most important aspects of human resources improvement, and so in past decades, the health organizations were paid more attraction to it. The aim of the current study was to investigating the effectiveness of self-made multimedia on self efficacy and academic burnout in educable students with mental disabilities. Materials...

Background: The aim of this study is to evaluate and compare the mental health in mothers of mentally retarded children and deaf children. Method: 50parents (33 with deaf children and 27with mentally retarded children) were selected and they complete Reef questionnaire. Results: Results show that the well-being of mothers of mentally retarded and deaf children has no significant difference....