Aim: Regarding the importance of language in communication and the key role of hearing in it, speech quality assessment in determining the ability of an individual is an suitable index. The purpose of this study was to analyze the speech quality of MLU, lexical richness, the number of content words and function words in 6-4 years low birth bringing Deaf cochlear implant in comparison with peers...

Introduction: Expectancy acts as a basis for dealing with problems in human. Early schemas are beliefs that people have about themselves and others and environment and generally stem from not satisfying basic essentials, particularly emotional needs, in childhood. The aim of this study was to determine relationship between life expectancy and early maladaptive schemas in the mothers of chi...

Background: The aim of the present study is to assess the relationship between coping strategies and general health with perception style of parents who have hearing-impaired children. Method: It is a correlation study. We selected 71 individuals as a sample group from target population including parents with hearing-impaired children and students studying at exceptional schools in Karaj cit...

Introduction & Objective: A mentally retarded child puts burden and responsibility on the family, especially the mother, and disturbs the general health of the mother.This study aimed to determine the correlation between spiritual health and general health among mothers of mentally impaired children in Hamedan. Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was a correlation study on 165 moth...