objectives: the study was aimed to determine the effectiveness of verbal self-instruction training on math problem-solving of intellectually disabled boy students in tehran provinces. methods: the study was a semi-experimental with pre-test and post-test design with control group. thirty intellectually disabled boy students were selected randomly through cluster sampling method from 9th grade s...

The paper focuses on disabled students in higher education (HE) and their use of technologies to support their learning. Disabled students commonly report that they feel they have to work harder than other students because they have to manage both their disability and their study. Access to and accessibility of technologies affects how well disabled students manage this workload. Data were coll...

OBJECTIVE To compare the differential implications of sociodemographic and situational factors on the risk of injury among disabled and non-disabled children. DESIGN Data from the Emergency Department Injury Surveillance System (EDISS) were used to compare, in a quasi case-control approach, injured children with or without disability with respect to sociodemographic, event and injury variable...

BACKGROUND Few previous studies have specifically addressed the health care utilization situation of the physically disabled. This study aimed to investigate the utilization of free adult preventive health care for physically disabled people and its' affecting factors. METHODS The data was obtained from three nationwide databases from 2006 to 2008. This study comprised 329,264 physically disa...

The low rate of employment among disabled people in Britain has often been observed, but is not well understood. This paper examines the dynamics of disabled people's employment, with a view to reaching a better understanding of the processes which underlie the cross-sectional picture. The analysis uses data from the first seven waves of the British Household Panel Survey and focuses on three t...

objectives: quality of life for disabled children often has been assessed based on functional status or parental perceptions rather than direct reports from the children. the objective of this study was evaluating the quality of life of mothers with disabled children. methods: there is widespread acceptance of the need for disabled children to be fully integrated into society but there needs to...

background: we aimed to determine the status of strongyloidiasis in mentally disabled population in the institutional places in rasht city, the capital of guilan province, northern iran. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted in 8 institutions for mentally retarded population in rasht in 2013. before collecting the samples, a questionnaire was filled out for each participant by an ex...

INTRODUCTION The World Health Organisation Disability Assessment Schedule II (WHODAS II) is an instrument developed by the World Health Organisation in order to assess behavioural limitations and restrictions to participation experienced by an individual, independently from a medical diagnosis. The conceptual frame of reference of this instrument is the International Classification of Functioni...