The COVID-19 has resulted in schools, colleges and universities shut all across the world. As a result; education has changed dramatically, with the distinctive rise of e-learning, whereby teaching is undertaken remotely and on digital platforms. This research study examines the attitudes of university students towards online teaching under corona virus pandemic situation in Pakistan. A cross sectional study design was used on 400 (Male=195, Female=205) university students. A convenient sampling technique was used to draw the sample from different universities in the province of Punjab, Pakistan. An online survey was conducted to collect the data. Descriptive statistics were calculated out to measure the distribution of attitude of study participants. Frequency and percentages were estimated to assess the attitude towards online mode of learning, and opinion on educational decisions, and problems related to study due to lockdown. All analyses were performed using the SPSS-V20. The results of study highlighted that a large majority of student (83.9 percent) preferred face-to-face classroom teaching method. This study concluded that in Pakistan, despite picking up gigantic ubiquity nowadays, virtual education has still not been grasped by students. Students are still more in the favour of face-to-face classroom teaching.

Background: Job stress is now a widely used term use by speech-language pathologists. Workplace workload stress, high levels of time pressure, poor salaries, and the effect on mental health on job performance appear to be the main causes of low productivity in any work context. To combat stress, employees require a certain level of motivation as well as job stress management solutions. Objective: To find the effect of job stress and on Speech-Language Pathologists’ job performance in Pakistan. Methodology: It was a cross-sectional study. Sampling technique used for this study was random. It was conducted through social media platforms or online survey. Duration of the study was six months from August 2021 to January 2022, after the approval of IRB. Sample size was 120 that was taken on the basis of (http://www.pslpa.org). SLPs included in this study had experience more than 1 year in Overall Pakistan. Data was collected through structured questionnaire. After the completion of data, all the responses were recorded and frequencies of each question were calculated through statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) to evaluate final results of research. Results: According to the findings of the study, both males and females were feeling job stress at work. Age, profession, job title, and regular salary all have considerable differences. Workload stress, Job Security stress, Shift work stress, and job performance stress were the 4 components analyzed by the researcher. And these variables indicate distinct levels of occupational stress in SLPs (Severe, Moderate, and Mild). Workload stress accounted for the highest percentage of severe to moderate stress, at 28.78%. Job security stress had mild percentage, indicating that SLPs experienced less stress as a result of job security (27.12 %). Shift work had a high level of stress, which had a negative impact on their job performance (25.12 %). And SLPs experienced a higher level of job performance stress in their work settings, which was 28%. These variables are strongly integrated and had a higher effect on SLPs Job Performance. Conclusion: After analyzing the data using SPSS, it was concluded that Workload had an effect on SLPs job performance in more significant way, shift work and Job performance stress had a higher percentage of job stress in SLPs which affect their Job performance. Only Job security shows the mild job stress in SLPs. Key words: Job Security, Job Performance, Speech-Language Pathologist, Workload, Shift Work, Occupational Stress

Background: Down syndrome is the disorder in which physical, mental, and functional deformity is present due to trisomy twenty one, the existence of three chromosomes instead of two normal chromosomes in human genome. Children who have intellectual disability they have neurodevelopmental deficit regards to limited in intellectual operation and adaptive behaviors. One of the safeguards variables as a favorable adaptability to a challenging conditions, like managing a handicapped kid, is marital satisfaction. Higher levels of marital happiness are linked to reduce depression levels, less parenting stress, and better parental planning (Kersh, Hedvat, Hauser-Cram, & Warfield, 2006) Objective(s): To find out parental satisfaction with academia of Down syndrome and Intellectual disability in Pakistan. Methodology: A standardized tool PSCDDI is used and data were collected from special education school of Lahore and Gujranwala city. Data were collected from 385 parents of down syndrome and intellectual disable child parents through questionnaire which were provided to parents and take their opinion. After data collected we analyze the data and concluded the results. Results: In this study we find out that parents are unsatisfied to academic performance of their child most of child and most of the parents are not sure and disagree. Down syndrome child are 38.9% and 60.9% child were intellectual disable and they are all in pre to 3rd grade. Most of the child were in the age range of 5- 8 years. The parents of DS and ID child have non-Consaginous marriage is 53.6% and 46.4% are Consaginous marriage. Conclusion(s): The overall study of parental satisfaction towards the developmental disability of their children shows unsatisfaction. . In Pakistan parents who have their children with disability faced many challenges in society. Keyword: Down syndrome, intellectual disability, parental satisfaction, academia

Optimism is an attitude of a healthy mind that leads to success while pessimism is ingrained habit of mind with the consequences of underachievement and anxiety. University students who practice optimismare considered highly significant with the score of Life Orientation Test-Revised.