Introduction: One of the mental health indexes is life satisfaction influencing the quality of people. Exceptional children have different characteristics and abilities in comparison with normal children. Exceptional children are those that require special training to develop their ability. The aim of this research was to compare life satisfaction in blind and deaf children with normal students...

Introduction: Hearing loss in children is a main cause of malfunction in them. On the other hand, adaptive Behavior includes the age-appropriate behaviors necessary for people to live normally and in daily life. The objective of this study was to compare the adaptive behaviors of 12-36 months deaf and normal children. Methods: In this case- control study, we compared adaptive behaviors score o...

Introduction:  Theory of mind refers to the ability to predict and document mental states to oneself and to others the purpose of this study was to compare the theory of mind in normal and orphaned children 3 to 6 years old and determine its relationship with age and intelligence. Method: This study is a causal-comparative study. The study population included all normal and orphaned children in...

Objective: The aim of this study was comparing ABR in normal and down children. Materials & Methods: This study was performed between 1388 to 1391 at Akhavan rehabilitation center of University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences Tehran and Babol Amir Kola hospital. Forty five 3-6 year-old boy with Down’s syndrome and forty five normal children were selected from available populati...

Introduction: Children’s obesity is strong predictor of obesity in adulthood, which increases the incidence of related diseases such as metabolic syndrome. Fatty liver is an abnormality related to metabolic syndrome with higher prevalence in obese children according to some previous studies. This study investigates the presence of Sonographic Fatty Liver (SFL) in Iranian obese children in comp...

The purpose of this study was to compare self-compassion, mental vitality and mindfulness of mothers of children with rheumatism and mothers of normal children in Tehran. The research method of the present study was descriptive-causal comparative. The statistical population of the present study included all the mothers of children with rheumatism and the mothers of normal ones in the city of Te...

Cousin marriage appeared to have a significant role in the birth of disabled children. This is a comparative study on the frequency of cousin and non-cousin marriage among the parents of disabled children and parents of normal children in Kermanshah. In this Ex Post Facto research, employing simple random sampling, 250 parents of disabled children were selected, and the same sample size for par...

Background and purpose: Hearing impaired children with cochlear implant experience many problems as they have developmental language impairments with impaired working memory. The aim of this study was to develop a working memory test and investigating the working memory in children with cochlear implant. Materials and methods: In this cross sectional study, a Persian working memory scale for c...