Objectives: Families of children with special needs face many problems. This study aimed to investigate happiness training on the pattern of parent-child relationships and the hope of parents with autistic children. Methods: Twenty-six couples with autistic children who referred to Rafsanjan Autism Clinic, Rafsanjan City, Iran, were enrolled in the study by the census method. Informed consent ...

BACKGROUND Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) may be involved in the etiology of autism spectrum disorders, but identifying relevant chemicals within mixtures of EDCs is difficult. OBJECTIVE Our goal was to identify gestational EDC exposures associated with autistic behaviors. METHODS We measured the concentrations of 8 phthalate metabolites, bisphenol A, 25 polychlorinated biphenyls (PC...

The article includes a literary review of scientific works devoted to the study specific features motivational and personal sphere mothers with children diagnosed Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), published in number countries Africa Middle East. author describes difficulties faced by process education treatment their autistic these regions world; provides statistics on extension autism among chi...

Knowledge of how parenthood is experienced by autistic women currently poor. Nine mothers to children aged 5–15 years completed semi-structured interviews, analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. All considered at least one their also be autistic. Four superordinate themes emerged: 1. Autism fundamentally impacts parenting; 2. Battle for the right support; 3. Development and ac...

how to cite this article: babaknejad n, sayehmiri f, sayehmiri k, mohamadkhani a, bahrami s. the relationship between zinc levels and autism: systematic review and meta-analysis. iran j child neurol. autumn 2016; 10(4):1-9.   abstract objective autism is a complex behaviorally defined disorder. there is a relationship between zinc (zn) levels in autistic patients and development of pathogenesis...

Autism is considered as a neurodevelopmental disorder which affects boys more than girls, in a proportion 4:1 respectively. Autism presents neuroanatomical abnormalities located in the frontal cortex, the amygdala and the cerebellum. Autistic cerebellar postmortem studies have revealed a reduced number of Purkinje cells as well as a reduced Purkinje cell size when compared with non-autistic sub...

abstract aim and background: parenting styles are particular methods that parents use of them in nurturing of their children.the aim of this study was comparing parenting styles of mothers of pre-school children with and without intellectual disabilities. method and material: this is a causal-comparative research.the statistical population of this research includes the whole mothers of pre-scho...

objective: according to the significant role of mothers’ personality traits and their training styles on the genesis of children’s initial personality and destructive manners, present research compares early maladaptive schemas of mothers of children with attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder, mothers of children with oppositional defiant disorder, and mothers of normal children. methods: t...