background and aim: autobiography is a kind of narrative writing about a person written by that same person. indeed, it is a type of writing about self that is full of subjectivity and experience. the present study investigated the effect of autobiography method on the comprehension skill of hearing-impaired students. methods: international standardized reading literacy questions (2001) was emp...

Hydrocephalus in children has many aetiologies, and can cause multiple ophthalmic and visual disorders. This study sets out to detect and quantify visual and visuoperceptual dysfunction in children who have received surgical treatment for hydrocephalus with and without myelomeningocele, and to relate the results to the associated diagnoses and results from a comparison group. Seventy-five schoo...

Although language-impaired children have been observed to follow many nor­ mal language acquisition patterns, research to date has not fully explored the re­ lationships between various linguistic domains. The hypotheses investigated in this study are that language-impaired children produce fewer logical proposi­ tions per utterance and evidence less control of formal syntactic markers. lan­ gu...

This research aimed to measure social emotional adjustment of hearing impaired children from both primary and elementary levels in Bahawalpur Division. Social Emotional Assessment Inventory (SEAI) was used to collect data from teachers of randomly selected 256 hearing impaired children studying at primary and elemntary levels. Descriptive statistics and t-test were applied to analyse the data. ...

Abstract Background Pragmatics is the social use of language that draws on understanding human interactions in specific contexts and requires engagement with a communicative partner or partners. The hearing-impaired children are known to have pragmatic delay as hearing impairment deprived exposure natural communication interactions, addition they have. Since age implantation has emerged an impo...

BACKGROUND We assessed the visual functioning of the children with special needs in Oman between 2009 and 2012. We present the methods of assessing different visual functions, outcomes, and interventions carried out to improve their functioning. METHODS Optometrists assessed visual functions of children of "Day care centres" in Oman. Experts further assessed them and provided low vision care....

OBJECTIVE To assess the disciplinary preferences of mothers of profoundly deaf children and normally hearing children in a test of the hypothesized link between child disabilities and punitive parenting. METHOD Disciplinary preferences of mothers seeking a cochlear implant for their profoundly deaf child (n=57), mothers not seeking an implant for their deaf child (n=22), and mothers of normal...

Parental stress endangers the own mental stability and is considered as a factor for dysfunctional parental behavior (Tröster 2011). Parents of hearing impaired children face stressful challenges that can even persist after cochlear implantation (CI) their child.