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There are many across the globe who have been affected by Asperger syndrome.   However, the wide dispersal which is related to the condition often leave many the feeling of seclusion as they attempt to raise their children with the limited knowledge available in the medical community.   

The internet has helped in expanding the opportunity of communication in many areas and for the parental community it has created new possibilities to meet and greet with other people who are sharing your life experiences.   For the parent who has presently embraced the life of isolation when it comes to raising their kid, it would be intelligent to seek an on-line parental community which focuses on the raising of kids with Asperger syndrome.

When you are able to access the opportunity of a community forum, you will be able to gain experience in relation to this condition without actually going through the experiences.   In these kinds of communities many parents are creating the opportunity to communicate with others in order to understand their experiences whilst sharing experiences of their own.   The lesson of learning from others is essential in these types of venues, as it provides you with a unique insight into raising your child, which may not have been possible by attempting to raise your child on your own.   With this huge amount of experience at your hands you would be able to improve your parenting abilities as you provide your Asperger syndrome child with the experiences which will exponentially benefit them.

The opportunity for a parent to meet with people who are sharing similar situations to your own is more important than any kind of knowledge or experience.   The ability of the web has expanded the size of a local community to a national or even global level, providing you access to individuals you would not have been able to make on your own.   This level of support is vital for an individual, not only to further educate themselves on the Asperger syndrome, but to even communicate their achievements and frustrations with others.   

This venue aids an individual deal with the difficulties they might discover in this situation and have an outlet to access so as to develop friends.   From a psychological viewpoint, individuals who communicate regularly with others have a healthier approach to life’s bumps over an individual who chooses to remain lone, enabling frustrations to build internally.

In life there are several road blocks which add complications and when you’re forced to face those frustrations on your own they could build in a negative manner.   Working with other people offers a person with the opportunity to build friendships, build off the experience of other people and get knowledge which would be hard to come by on your own.

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How to Start a Group Home for the Elderly Business

Caring for the elderly can be an emotionally rewarding and financially profitable venture. Forming an elderly foster care home does necessitate the coordination between many different elements, which can be very challenging. One day, you might need to be tested for state certification. The next day, you could be managing the renovations to the building.

Step 1

Decide on what kind of elderly home you will be opening. An assisted-living facility will be very different in organization and design than a retirement community.

Step 2
Contact the appropriate state agencies, such as your state’s adult protective services office, and federal agencies, such as the Department of Health and Human Services, to find out which requirements you need to satisfy to open an elderly care home. Each state has different requirements, such as training courses, building inspections, criminal checks and certification tests.

Step 3
If needed, acquire a physician’s statement that asserts your competence to run an elderly home, and have your building inspected by the appropriate state offices.

Step 4
Once you have acquired the building, schedule renovations to meet the needs of residents. For instance, you will need resources and rooms for both physically impaired and physically active residents.

Step 5
Begin advertising the care home at the county and state levels. Discuss your home and the services provided with area doctors and medical care providers.

Step 6
Interview to hire staff and other service providers, such as food services and security. If you do not have experience in these fields, hire reliable candidates to run these aspects of your home.

Step 7
Screen potential clients to make sure that you can offer them the required services. For instance, you should not accept someone who has a degenerative mental illness if you do not have the staff to treat them. Once your first resident enrolls, you have officially opened your own elderly care home.

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Article by Hear World Communications

Hearing Loss which is also known as “deafness”, “hearing impairment “is the condition in which a human is unable to hear or detect the sound. It can be fully and partial both. Hearing Loss can be measured according to the frequency of sound such as mild, profound, moderate or severe. It is measured in DB.

Conductive, Sensor, Mixed and central are the types of hearing loss. Reasons behind Conductive hear loss are ear infections, injury, tumors, ear wax whereas Sensor Hear loss can be there due to bacterial infections, exposure to medications or toxics and chemicals, genetic changes such as Down syndrome, problem with the structure of inner part of an ear etc. In Mixed hearing loss an individual suffers from mix symptoms of Conductive and Sensor. Causes of Central hearing loss are tumors & the diseases which affects the nerve cells.

The most common cause of deafness or hearing problem is due to the aging process. Dizziness and earaches can be signs of hearing loss. Hearing problems are pretty common in older people.

Unable to differentiate between sounds due to muffling of sound, not getting words properly, falling suddenly, Emotional problems due to feelings of isolation, earache are some complications which comes due to deafness.

In the cases of repeated Infections Blood and Pus may come out from external auditory canal.

There are some treatments to avoid this problem like: Surgery if anybody have ear structural problem, Hearing loss patients can use Ear Tubes for preventing ears from repeated infections & Medications suggested by doctors can also be helpful for deaf patients.

Hearing Loss is nothing but a condition which disables the hearing power of an individual or we can say that it is a type of disease in which a human losses his hearing ability. He can’t detect the sound which a normal person can easily get. It’s also known as ‘Deafness’.

To make open all fields of study To focus on employability outcomes To create result-oriented system To enable disabled persons to make equal contributions to society in terms of their economic and social life participation To generate awareness among public about hearing disabilities and the needs of Hearing Impaired persons To advocate the rights and requirements of Hearing Impaired persons

Establishment of state-level Disability Co-ordination programs to provide greater coordination of services for disabled people in vocational education and training. Allocation of funds to create study materials so that Hearing Impaired persons can learn with ease Development of effective system to identify and raise awareness about important issues Formation of strategic partnerships between training institute, lawmakers and potential employers to provide equal opportunities to people with disabilities

Education is the most important issue for Hearing Impaired people. Generations of Hearing Impaired children have been and will continue to be ‘educated’ in a system controlled by people who are not Hearing Impaired and who focuses on deafness as a defect that needs to be fixed. The system attempts to educate them by using a language (English) that they neither know fluently and nor can access fully. These generations of Deaf children have emerged with poor English skills, poor education, poor general knowledge, and poor self-esteem.

Employment is the second most important issue.

Hearing impaired student must be provided adequate support services such as:

Interpreters, who can translate lecture into language known to candidates. Counselors, who should be made available to all students to discuss personal, academic, or psychological problems. Individualized services. Some Hearing Impaired students seek assistance with class assignments or personal issues that they cannot share with others.

Involve the Hearing Impaired community. Self help is more effective and efficient. Ensure the availability of technology enhancements such as websites, mobile telephone short message services (sms), and other visual information sources to assist Hearing Impaired students.  Encourage students to participate in vocational education and training. Interpreters should be available. Undertake staff training. Staff should be trained in basic sign language skills. Provide a wide range of language support services. Many Hearing Impaired students require the same language support as a person from another language background. Teaching group should be a manageable group. Valuable interactive sessions with the help of subtitled videos, PowerPoint presentations, handouts of lectures notes and web links on course materials are proven successful strategies to ensure the clarity and availability of courseware for all. Prepare course material using the Models of Instructional Design to make things easy for Hearing Impaired persons. Programmed courses where progress of understanding is evaluated at small increments are also beneficial. Create support groups. Support groups can provide support and minimize isolation. Hearing impaired students should be included in mainstream courses along with normal students.

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COMPUTER FOR THE BLIND IN IRANAND ITS ROLE IN JOB OPPORTUNITIES FOR THEM.

Author:

Aliasghar Assadi

INTRODUCTION:

History Of Using Computers Between The Blind In Iran.

The more time passes, the more we are involved within a computerized society and everyone either becomes interested or is made learn technology to become or remain up to date.

And the blind as an inseparable part of the global society cannot be as an exception to this rule.

In Iran, the campaign urging the blind to learn computer is rather a young movement and it almost started in the late 90′s.

The first time a company namely Pactus started making accessible hardwares/softwares for the blind.

Their products consisted of applications working under DOS operating system and special Perkins-like keyboards and Braille viewers.

Since their products were very very expensive, we don’t know any blind person that could have purchased them unless using complex methods of being benefited from subsidies.

As a result, the only method the blind could see their products was to attend rehabilitation

centers using Pactus softwares and hardwares purchased using governmental aids.

Their software package was something that we can call it almost a Persian version of Office

package include a library for the blind to study hundreds of books on the Braille viewers,

editor for creating documents and printing them, bidirectional dictionary (English-Persian and vice versa), and a simple version of Chess game.

They have tried to update this package step by step and now it works under windows XP with more achievements.

From the very beginning, the most popular of their products was the keyboard braille giving the blind user to type Persian characters as if they were using Perkins Braillers.

Especially they were welcomed in public schools for the blind like where I work.

their softwares were self-speech using recorded audio files making their application database considerably large.

And they enabled the blind to do basics of computer works.

In early 2001 the blind knew Jaws for Windows as the best screen reader and consequently they became very seriously familiar with computers.

Mahna as an NGO for the blind and the deaf, was the first NGO that began computer training and workshops for the blind in Tehran.

They taught the first generation of blind computer users that undoubtedly were and still are the most successful generation of computer users in Tehran.

Saf (Science and Art Federation) played the same role in Isfahan, another Iranian city but they were more facilitated than Mahna since they vastly used subsidies as a governmental organization and they are still getting ahead in their way.

they developed their projects to other cities including Tehran and they recorded the first audio books for the blind in Iran as self-education of computer technology.

In fact, the first generation of computer users either in Tehran or Isfahan led the training process of the blind computer users and even this has become a serious job opportunity for them.

the computer education has been followed by other organizations and now it is seriously followed in public schools, too.

The basis of this education is upon softwares and Braille Viewers are not general at al.

Instead, the most used-hardware are embossers.

They are used simply by NGOs or rehabilitation centers to afford the daily-increasing requests from the blind students to emboss their documents specially for academic uses.

Now the Iranian blind people specially those familiar with foreign languages seek new doors for their education and knowledge enrichment by finding new friends abroad.

They try to learn new languages, take online courses and so on even if very limitedly.

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      Work Experience For The Blind Using Computers:

The first open door for blind advanced computer users was to become computer teachers but this vision is rapidly developing.

low-vision users have found job opportunities as typists or clerks using magnification

softwares like Zoom-text or Magic.

In very rare cases, the blind could make temporary income in repairing computers for other blind people or even for sighted people.

And some others are working as translators that undoubtedly this job has become possible simply when computers entered their lives.

They work at home or offices.

In any manner, these job opportunities are very limited and still don’t make a remarkable percentage of occupied blind persons.

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      problems the Iranian blind confront in using computers:

When we talk about computers in Latin-based languages like English or Spanish, since the operating systems including Windows know them rapidly and since the assistive technologies including TTS, OCR, and screen reader softwares and so forth are available from different brands for the blind speaking such languages, this is not a serious issue to talk about such softwares but the issue is making progress in the quality of such softwares.

But for Farsi, the language of Iran, the subject is different and it is availability of such softwares. Up to now, there is no acceptable, high-quality Farsi TTS or OCR.

So what?

Pactus was the first company claimed making a TTS for Farsi working with Jaws.

While their software was almost 550 dollars, it crashed many times.

Another company working on this project is “AIR Soft” and they produced the first Farsi TTS that was so cheap that everyone could buy it.

Their first software has many many bugs that some could be prevented and some others need a lot of work since they refer to the specifications of Farsi language.

The problem of making a Farsi TTS is that contrary to Latin languages like English, the vowel sounds are not written in Persian and the font system is not a standard national one.

So what can be done?

some believe that we may use a big database of recorded words that is not wisely since it will be quite slow, almost will cause crash and slow down the webpage reading process for the blind. So the best way is using the phonemes of Farsi like designing TTSs for other languages.

Farsi has at most 190 phonemes that can be recorded to make a TTS using a synthesized voice that can be very similar to human voice.

the most innovative idea in my opinion is what the manager of a new computer company once told me and it is giving the software artificial intelligence and training it to recognize the Farsi grammar.

This way the software will recognize the pronunciation of a word while it can be pronounced in 2-5 forms depending on the position it has in a sentence.

Another technology that can help the blind specially to convert the printed materials in to text or even audio files is OCR (Optical Character Recognition).

This normal technology for the West is a wish in Iran too.

Depending on Farsi specifications this one is somehow complex to be made too.

The non-standard fonts used in many cases and the right-to-left writing style of Farsi

in addition to the format of its alphabet that makes its recognition for OCT softwares very

hard, are the main issues in developing such a software in Farsi.

Another issue is accessibility and up to now there is no rule to make the software producers make their products accessible for people with disabilities.

Lack of such softwares in addition to the high prices of available products in the Iranian market is another serious issue.

A new legislation has been ratified in the parliament to support disability rights but technological needs have been ignored in this case.

Once Pactus was the only company working on assistive technology and as a result, the price was high and illogical but the new companies are entering the market and making a balance in prices.

Besides, the government must support the blind in this case since it is almost natural to see such softwares in high prices since a basic factor in reducing the price is the number of users of a software that naturally is limited in the visually impaired people market.

One movement might be campaigns to urge the government to consider blind needs seriously and to consult them while making blind-related decisions in general.

Pursuing such a purpose made the blind sign an open-letter written for Iran’s president to order a Farsi TTS and OCR to those companies working in this field for many years.

We have tried to convince the government that having a Farsi TTS and OCR doesn’t mean necessarily to invest for the blind community but for all the society including the economic sections that such technologies would enormously reduce the time spent for recording audio files for talking systems or archiving the hand-written materials as digital archives.

Another solution for the blind can be a vast comprehensive outline to teach them programming so that they can both localize softwares and create new ones suitable for their mother tongue.

One of the movements in this case has been classes in Mahna held once to teach principles of programming and also hardware basics but they were cancelled due to financial issues of this NGO.

Another thing is the efforts a

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