statement of problem: blindness as a disability seems to produce difficulties to reach an ideal heath status of the teeth. moreover ordinary educational health programmes for this group of population, especially children, are not successful. purpose: investigate the dental health status of these children and to see if they are really different with the normal population. materials and methods: ...

BACKGROUND The aim of the present study was to examine to what extent the verbal definitions of familiar objects produced by blind children reflect their peculiar perceptual experience and, in consequence, differ from those produced by sighted children. METHODS Ninety-six visually impaired children, aged between 6 and 14 years, and 32 age-matched sighted children had to define 10 words denoti...

The aim of this work was to examine family well-being in a sample of Spanish families with blind children. Sixty-one participants reported their perceived economic status, the level of job satisfaction, and state-anxiety symptoms. The participants of our study scored higher on state-anxiety and lower on material well-being than the normative sample, although these differences did not reach stat...

background and aim: attention is an important cognitive process that is necessary for educational purposes. blind people are deprived from the most widely used human sense, the sense of vision. there are reports that blind individuals have a significantly better performance in attentional tasks, as compared with normal subjects. the purpose of this study was to evaluate sustained auditory atten...

background: teachers, parents and foundations should become objective-oriented for children with visual impairment so that learning and sensitization of necessary knowledge and skills for the behaviors of these children are assisted. where there is impairment in the relations of children caregivers, their emotional security is disturbed and its effects will appear in their behaviors. therefore,...

background: quality of life largely depends on one’s perception about different aspects life. the present investigation aimed at comparing the quality of life of mothers with autistic, blind, or normal-functioning children.   materials and methods: this cross-sectional comparative study was done in a population of 146 mothers of children who aged 6-15 years old, in shiraz, within the period 201...