Extracts from a report on public and professional attitudes towards the sexual and emotional needs of handicapped People.

toys and play for the handicapped child What to say and what to do when mostly your friends love reading? Are you the one that don't have such hobby? So, it's important for you to start having that hobby. You know, reading is not the force. We're sure that reading will lead you to join in better concept of life. Reading will be a positive activity to do every time. And do you know our friends b...

Proceedings of the Fourth International Seminar on Special Education (Cork, Ireland, September 8-12, 1969) contain papers relating to the following themes: special education personnel, identification of the handicapped, general aspects of early education, special education methods, early education programs for the mentally handicapped, and early education programs for children with sensory and ...

A new assistive system to support the independence of handicapped persons and elderly persons with handicaps is under development at the Working Group on Rehabilitation Engineering at the Vienna University of Technology. This paper describes the concept of the system. To meet the requirements of the very different possible users, high flexibility in supported functions and configuration of the ...

This paper addresses a wearable master device for physically handicapped persons whose arms are disabled. Optical fiber curvature sensors are used to measure the human body motion. For the developed wearable master device, a calibration and mapping method of the sensors is proposed to extract 2-DOF human shoulder motions. An experiment shows that the wearable master device can be used for a 2-D...

This is an excellent text book for teachers and other professional workers concerned with the education of the mentally handicapped. It deals mainly with "special class" teaching which is equivalent to teaching in schools and classes for educationally subnormal pupils in this country. It would also however have particular value for teachers of older children and adults in Occupation Centres. A ...

The objective of this paper is to bring to you a technology that helps those handicapped who don’t have healthy hands to run a vehicle by giving the voice commands. In this the driver need not use the steering instead his head. This vehicle is only for those handicapped those who can nod head well. Four switches are interfaced over the neck of the driver, and the vehicle can be controlled by th...

A HANDICAPPED child is a child who cannot play, work or do the things other children of his age can do, or who is hindered in achieving his full physical, mental and social potentiality . . This is the definition of the 1960 White House Conference on Children and Youth. President Kennedy, in his short, meteoric term of office, gave a tremendous boost to the parents of these children, and to the...

Most of the points that apply to dysphasic patients can usefully be remembered when dealing with the mentally handicapped, especially the following. (1) Use simple sentences, but do not "talk down." (2) Put instructions in writing; there will usually be someone in the patient's environment who can read. (3) Both truculence and shyness are often due to being in an unfamiliar environment, so putt...

Self-handicapping behavior exhibits a robust gender effect: Men but not women consistently choose behavior that they believe will impair their performance, even when that performance is important to them. Because previous research shows self-handicapping to occur when esteem is threatened, we propose that high status individuals will be more likely to self-handicap than will those of lower stat...