Background: The presence of a mentally retarded child is a stressful experience for the family, especially mothers. The present study aimed to determine the effect of resilience education by the teach-back method on the stress of mothers of educable mentally retarded children. Materials and Methods In this field trial study, 70 mothers of educable mentally retarded children were selected as the...

teachers often experience burnout and challenges during their active career. different studies have shown that those directly involved with teaching children with special needs are more subject to burnout. due to advance screening tools, more children with autism are now diagnosed and involved in special education. the aim of the present study was to investigate the professional burnout in teac...

A questionnaire survey was conducted in 1991 in order to elucidate depressive state among 352 nursing teachers and guidance workers working in 71 homes for mentally retarded children. The data were analyzed by means of Zung's SDS to study the causative factors in relation to personal attributes, conditions and variables pertaining to work, professional characteristics, and nearby people's expec...

objectives: the present study aims to investigate the effectiveness of multimedia education  for the development of self-help and life skills in educable, mentally retarded students.  methods: this research is an applied one in terms of objective. a pretest and posttest, with a control group, research design for the collection of data also makes it a quasi-experimental one. the statistical popu...