PSYCHOLOGY OF EXCEPTIONAL INDIVIDUALS
Year:2011 | Volume:1 | Issue:1|Papers Count:7

The aim of This study is to investigate the prevalence of behavior disorders among elementary Ardebil school students with and without specitic learning disabilties. The subjects of this study were a sample of 377 (191 boys and 186 girls) without specific learning disabilties and 80 students with specific learning disabilties (40 boys and 40 girls) enrolled for the academic year (1388-1389) in Ardebil/iran. the sample was taken via stratified random sampling. the Achenbach teacher from was completed by both groups.The specific learning disabilties sample showed significantly more and higher degrees of symptorms in all types of behaviour disorders, including emotional, anxiety, defiant, ADHD / hyperactive and conduct disorders. with only the exception of physical disorders. another interesting finding has been the prevalence of ADHD among both groups.Educational settings and helping profesionals should be more aware of this comorbid symptoms along with specific learning disabilities in such students.

The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of mother management training on parenting styles and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) Symptoms in Children. This research was done through a quasi-experimental design of pre test- post test with equivalent groups. Twenty-six schools were selected randomly in Behbahan. Teacher/parent forms of CSI-4 students were utilized to diagnose ADHD. Participants included 40 students who met ADHD criteria, and randomly assigned into 2 experimental and control groups.The experimental mother's group was invited to participate in training sessions. The training package was based on Barkley (1997). The control group received no training. MANCOVA analysis showed some significant differences in improvement of parenting styles and decreasing the symptoms of children with ADHD. Accordingly, we can conclude that mother management training can be useful in helping these mothers and their children with ADHD.

Aim: The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of social skill training on psychological adjustment of Blind male students. This is an experiment study with pre test- post test control group design. The statistical population consisted of all (36) Blind students of middle grades (12 to 14 years) of Ababasir School in Esfahan as both experimental and control group. A sample of 18 student from each group were chosen from the population, by purposive sampling.Before intervention, the bell's Adjustment inventory (Be, 1967) was administrated to both groups.Afterwards experimental group received social skills training for 16 sessions (60 minutes each) in a period of two mounth. twice a week. One week after. the training, the post test was as given to both groups. Results were analyzed using T test. findings indicated that social training were significantly effective in enhance psychological adjustment (P<0.01).What has been achieved in this research is the effectiveness training in social skills to increase the students psychological adjustment.The possible explanation for the increasing student's psychological adjustment might be due to participation of the experimental group in the social skills training program.

In order to study the relationship between resiliency and job satisfaction in teachers of Conventional and Exceptional Schools in Tehran in the Academic of 2009-2010.In this regard, 270 male and female teachers (135 teacher of Conventional and 135 Exceptional Schools were selected randomly and completed the relevant questionnaires.Data were analyzed with Pearson correlation coefficient and in order to investigate the differences between the correlation coefficients. fisher's Z was applied. The results revealed that although, a strong positive relationship between the two variables (%27).On the contrary there was not any significant difference between the resiliency and job satisfaction. values obtained from the teachers of conventional and exceptional schools.Resiliency is main factor to determine job satisfaction in academic setting. And the role of job satisfaction is critical in quality of work in occupational and academic environment.

This case report is Significantly important, Due to the fact, that so far no documeted report has shown the presence of three female members of the same family having mental retardation. History and Mental status examination and physical examination was taken and the diagnosis was undertaken according to DSM IV-TR.Incidence of Mental Retardation is estimated about 1-3% in normal Population at any time (schaefer 2010). This disorder is 1.5 times more common in men than women (Sadock, 2007). Mental Retardations occure secondary to genetics, developmental, acquired or combination of these causes (Sadock, 2007). But what is rare and unusual is the fact that three Sisters are affected by mental Retardation in one and the same Family.There are some reports of new presentation and Etiology of Mental Retardation in medical literature (phadke, 20 I0). In this paper we will discuss and study different biological, social and cultural aspects of Mental Retardation and Present some mechanisms for primary prevention as well.

This semi- experimental study was conducted to investigate the effect of virtual instruction in students with hearing loss. Using a pretest-posttest control group design, 24 fifth grade elementary students were selected by multistage random sampling and then assigned in to two equal size experimental and control groups. The virtual instruction for science was administered to the experimental group in 3 weeks (60 minutes, three times per week). During this period the control group received routine program. before and after the experiment, the two groups were assessed by an achievement test in three parallel forms. ANOVA showed that virtual instruction could increase both learning and recalling in· the experimental group. Virtual instruction can increase the amount of science learning and recalling can be applied as an effective teaching method for students with hearing impairment in educational settings.

The aim of this paper is identifying existing management structures, strategies and processes available for higher education services for students with special educational needs. The qualitative case study research method has been used. Three university selected according to the research question and Athabasca University from Canada has been selected and analyzed deeply as a case. Literatures have been used as background knowledge tor findings. Both, literature and case study arc emphasized on applying the principles of universal design for learning and using assistive technology to deliver educational services to students with special educational needs. This study reviewed the nine principles of universal design for learning, some assistive technology and global experience in these fields. At the end for re-architecting teaching-learning process in Iranian higher education the paper highly suggest to use universal design for learning in educational institute specially higher education institutes.