Ali Afrooz

Mailing address:
# 10 Shian, Lavizan
Tehran, IRAN

Email: afrooz@ut.ac.ir

MSU degree: Ph.D, 1978

Dissertation topic: Attitudes of Regular School Teachers Toward Handicapped Individual (Blind, Deaf and Mentally Retarded) in IRAN

Publications: 25 Books and !28 Articles in the areas of Psychology and Education of Children (and Exceptional Children), Psychology of Family + Socio-Cultural Issues.

Current position: Professor, University of Tehran, For many years I have served as a Deputy Minister of Education, President of Iranian National Organization for Exceptional Children, Chancellor of the University of Tehran

Areas of special competence: Teaching, Research, and Counseling

Language: Farsi (Persian), English, Arabic

For the last twenty five years beside my academic responsibilities, I have been involved with one of the most important Cultural and Educational issues of our country such as PUBLIC EDUCATION & FAMILY EDUCATION in IRAN. In this regard I have been In charge of Iranian Parents-Teachers Association's Monthly Educational Journal and having Weekly nation wide live T.V programs for the Iranian families in urban and Rural areas the country. Recently I Have been leading the National Research Project on the Study of the Leading Causes of the Handicapping conditions among Iranian school age Children in Rural and Urban areas, Planning for National Preventive Strategies.