Previous research has been equivocal about whether deaf children can develop rhyme awareness. The current experiment investigates the rhyme skills of deaf children (mean age 11 years). Deaf children’s ability to make rhyme judgements was above chance, but poorer than that of their reading matched hearing controls. We conclude that deaf children do have a degree of rhyme awareness. We also discu...

In his preface (which is over a third of the length of Nigel's own contribution) Mr. Hunt writes with understandable emotion and some lack of objectivity. He certainly seems to have been unfortunate in his experience of 'experts' and some of the statutory services for the mentally handicapped. It would be a pity if members of the general public and the parents of other mongols were persuaded by...

background: the present study was carried out on the human population of kashmir valley to evaluate the status of the biochemical parameters of infected population. materials and methods: blood samples were collected from 514 individuals, 298 (57.97%) males and 216 (42.02%) females, 187 (36.38%) were found sero-positive for human toxocariasis. results: alkaline phosphatase level was found highe...

The current research investigates acknowledgments that physically disabled individuals make in an interview setting, and examines whether the timing of an acknowledgment makes a difference to the impressions that evaluators form A total of 137 participants watched an interview of a disabled applicant who (a) made no acknowledgment about the disability; or who acknowledged the disability at the ...

The current research examines how members of stigmatized groups remediate hiring biases by adopting the strategy of directly acknowledging their stigmatizing condition within the interview context. In the first study, 125 participants responded to a videotaped interview involving an obese or physically disabled job applicant who either did or did not acknowledge a stigma. In the second study, 8...

This action research aimed to explore how physical therapists could enhance the quality of life for persons with disabilities via a community-based rehabilitation (CBR) strategy. The study was conducted in two rural sub-districts in northeastern Thailand. In each sub-district, several group meetings were arranged for persons with disabilities and their families, and various community members. P...

altering nationality is a right for persons. according to rule 588 of commercial law, legal persons can have the complete right and duties of persons, except rights and duets that only human can have due to his nature such as rights and duties of fatherhood, sonny etc. in persian law, unlike persons, there is not any rule about altering nationality for legal persons especially companies and the...