SEVEN miles from Aberdeen, on the lovely road to Braemar, lies the Newton Dee Estate, recognised by the Ministry of Labour as a sheltered workshop for the mentally handicapped. There is a fundamental difference between it and most other "sheltered workshops," for it is a social experiment, and all who are there not only share the working life, but live together as a really integrated village co...

Although many governmental institutions have provided their costumers with access to electronic government documents there is still a lack of accessibility for handicapped citizens. In this paper we present an approach to improve access to governmental forms for handicapped citizens, in particular for people with visual impairments, elderly people, illiterates or immigrants. We describe a syste...

Impressions of a visit to a home for mentally handicapped children in Japan.

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The present study deals about the Welfare Schemes of Government Tamil Nadu for differently abled persons. It was crucial to create and develop volunteer organizations in state. Central Social Board provides fund its different programs. helps non-profit provide a wide range services welfare fields children, women, handicapped welfare.

This paper focuses on one of the most salient issues for siblings of children with disabilities--their helping or caretaking behavior. Prior research has found that siblings can experience either negative or positive mental health outcomes as a result of having a brother or sister with disabilities. When maladjustment occurs, 't is frequently attributed to the stress of excessive helping. arado...

Assistive and intelligent learning system is one of the best alternatives to provide education to handicapped and disabled persons. This kind of learning system may work well because handicapped and disabled students will not be encountered with the limitations and problems of the conventional education systems. This assistive learning system is mainly a multi-agent system based scheme. Those a...

Parental involvement in the education of handicapped children has been mandated with the passage of P.L. 94-142, The Education for All Handicapped Children Act. Recent research, however, has indicated that often parents are not active decision-makers in the development of the individualized education program or IEP (Gilliam, 1979; Goldstein, Strickland, Turnbull, & Curry, 1980). The purpose of ...

For a small subset of mentally handicapped individuals, the medical and dental setting can be so threatening that they react violently to health care providers. Deep sedation can be administered enterally using oral ketamine, 6-8 mg/kg, combined with glycopyrrolate mixed in simple syrup and preceded by a dose of an oral benzodiazepine and sodium citrate. A case utilizing this technique to sedat...