The Auditory Perception of Consonant Contrasts in Cochlear Implant Children.

A major part of speech perception is based on understanding and distinguishing between vocal cues in the speaker's speech. Consonants and vowels are vocal cues that can be affected by hearing impairment and their perception may thus be reduced or distorted. The present study aims to investigate the auditory perception of consonant contrasts in cochlear implant children.

A Comparison Study of the Tehran Norms to the Reference Norms on Children Performance of the Bayley III.

Objectives: The Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development (3rd ed.; Bayley III) are widely used to assess cognitive, language, and motor development of children aged 1-42 months. It is unclear whether or not the reference norms of the Bayley III are acceptable for use in other populations or lead to over- or underestimating the developmental status of target children.

Development of a speech production test in Azeri Turkish speaking children.

Due to the lack of appropriate tests for the assessment of speech sounds of Azeri Turkish speaking children, the present study aimed to develop and validate a single word test. A total of 150 typically developing children were recruited in the study (30 children for investigating the name agreement and 120 children to establish construct validity). In the first step, a test with 31 items was developed in terms of suggested criteria in the literature including word frequency, word length, syllabic structure, familiarity, and picturability of words.

Comparison of Definitional skills in school-age children with cochlear implants and normal hearing peers.

Objective: The auditory experience is important because makes a major contribution to the development of speech, language, cognitive, and social skills. Knowledge of the lexicon has been increased throughout life. Input factors and linguistic and metalinguistic knowledge are effective factors in the acquisition of definitional skills.

Longitudinal Trend of Fasting Blood Glucose and Related Factors in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.

Background: Control of diabetes plays an important role in improving complications and disabilities and quality of life. This study aimed to evaluate the 3-year changes in fasting blood glucose (FBG) values and its related factors in patients with type 2 diabetes.

Methods: In this retrospective cohort study, 500 patients with type 2 diabetes covered by the National Diabetic Prevention and Care Plan during 2013-2016 were selected based on random cluster systematic sampling.

Are the Norms of Bayley Screening Test Appropriate for Persian Language Children?

Objective: We aimed to assess the distribution of the Bayley screening test by age, and compare developmental risk category distributions between Persian language children and reference norms.

Materials & Methods: A representative sample of 417 children, 1 to 42-months-old, by consecutive sampling from health -care centers were enrolled, during 2014 to 2015 in Tehran, Iran. The cognitive, language and motor development of children were evaluated using Bayley screening test.

The association between parental mental health and behavioral disorders in pre-school children.

Background And Aim: Behavioral disorders among children reflect psychological problems of parents, as mental illness of either parent would increase the likelihood of mental disorder in the child. In view of the negative relationship between parents' and children's illness, the current study intended to determine the correlation between mental health of parents and behavioral disorders of pre-school children.

Methods: The present descriptive-correlational research studied 80 children registered at pre-school centers in Pardis Township, Tehran, Iran during 2014-2015 using convenience sampling.

Psychological Disorders among Iranian Infertile Couples Undergoing Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART).

Background: Worldwide, infertility affects 10%-15% of couples and most of them seek medical help including Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) treatments. Undergoing ART treatments create many physical and emotional burdens. This study examined the psychological consequences of infertility in Iranian infertile males and females as well as their spouses, unlike previous studies that examined mainly females with infertility.

A Psychometric Study of the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development in Persian Language Children.

Objective: Bayley Scales of infant & toddler development is a well-known diagnostic developmental assessment tool for children aged 1-42 months. Our aim was investigating the validity & reliability of this scale in Persian speaking children.

Materials & Methods: The method was descriptive-analytic.

Is the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Developmental Screening Test, Valid and Reliable for Persian Speaking Children?

Background: Advances in perinatal and neonatal care have substantially improved the survival of at-risk infants over the past two decades.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to assess the reliability and validity of the Bayley Scales of infant and toddler developmental Screening test in Persian-speaking children.

Methods: This was a cross-sectional prospective study of 403 children aged 1 - 42-months.

Relationship among temporary separation, attachment styles, and adjustment in first-grade Iranian children.

If mothers work outside the home, some degree of mother-child separation will be experienced and mother-child attachment will be affected. In this study, regarding the attachment styles, sociobehavioral problems in first-grade children with experience of preschool and in those taught by their mothers at-home are compared. A casual-comparative method was used to compare children in the two groups.

Effectiveness of social work intervention with a systematic approach to improve general health in opioid addicts in addiction treatment centers.

Purpose: This study takes a systematic approach to investigate the effect of social work intervention aimed at increasing general health among opioid addicts in addiction treatment centers.

Patients And Methods: This is an experimental plan (pretest to posttest with a control group); the study sample included 60 patients with drug dependencies undergoing treatment in addiction treatment centers. These patients were randomly assigned as case (30) and control (30) groups.

Vowels Development in Babbling of typically developing 6-to-12-month old Persian-learning Infants.

Objectives: Pre-linguistic vocalizations including early consonants, vowels, and their combinations into syllables are considered as important predictors of the speech and language development. The purpose of this study was to examine vowel development in babblings of normally developing Persian-learning infants.

Methods: Eight typically developing 6-8-month-old Persian-learning infants (3 boys and 5 girls) participated in this 4-month longitudinal descriptive-analytic study.

Bitter experiences of elderly parents of children with intellectual disabilities: A phenomenological study.

Background: It is predicted that over the next 30 years, there will be a significant increase in the number of elderly parents who care for their children with intellectual disability. This paper is part of a larger qualitative study which investigated the unpleasant experiences of these parents.

Materials And Methods: A phenomenological approach was adopted and data were collected through unstructured in-depth interviews with elderly parents of children with intellectual disability.

Predicting developmental disorder in infants using an artificial neural network.

Early recognition of developmental disorders is an important goal, and equally important is avoiding misdiagnosing a disorder in a healthy child without pathology. The aim of the present study was to develop an artificial neural network using perinatal information to predict developmental disorder at infancy. A total of 1,232 mother-child dyads were recruited from 6,150 in the original data of Karaj, Alborz Province, Iran.