The study involving 68 persons who had advertised apartments for rent was designed to determine if housing discrimination exists toward blind persons. Results indicated that housing discrimination toward blind persons does exist, as nearly 40 percent of the Ss refused to rent the apartment to the blind second caller. (Author/SBH)

The study investigated sentence memory of 15 young adult schizophrenics as compared to that of 15 nonschizophrenic patients and 15 normals. The schizophrenics' incidental recall was comparable to that of normals. (Author/SBH)

Data showed high reliability for all nine syntactic structures and total screen scores. Reliability remained high when results were examined for different hearing loss categories. There was a significant decrease in scores across these hearing loss categories but a marked increase in the discriminating power of the screens. (Author/CL)

A study involving deaf and hearing children investigated the perceptual abilities of deaf children employing tasks with both simultaneously and sequentially presented stimulus material. A series of motion picture tests, mostly involving abstract geometric figures, suggested that deaf and hearing children are comparable on visual memory tasks and…

A retrospective review of 145 sexually abused children was undertaken to assess the importance of male children as victims and to determine if they pose problems different from those of girl victims. Journal Availability: American Medical Association, 535 N. Dearborn St., Chicago, IL 60610. (Author/PHR)

The study, which assessed the practicality of influencing the construal of grammatical relations by manipulation of a nonsyntactic variable, plausibility, indicated that the referential meaning of individual words can influence the construal of word combinations though the deaf need further training in the denotative and connotative meanings of…

To determine the inquiry strategies which would be acquired by deaf children involved in a science-oriented inquiry development program based on J. Suchman's discrepant event approach, 27 deaf students aged 10 to 13, in five groups, responded to eight discrepant events related to the science topic of heat. (Author)

The survey investigated psychological services available in 95 schools and programs for hearing impaired children in New York State and New England states. The results indicated that most institutions provide psychological services and that the providers of such services perform similar roles. (Author)

One year after the first evaluation, teachers rated 18 hearing impaired children on their frequency of use of the Signed English markers. On the average, the group showed a slight improvement in their use of the marker system. Additionally, frequency of use of each of the 14 markers was also rated by the teachers. (Author)

The results show that orientation was affected by the contingencies, but productivity was not. An increase in task attention did not result in a corresponding increase in productivity. (Author)

Job satisfactions of 500 technicians were assessed in three medium to large public residential facilities for the mentally retarded using the Job Descriptive Index. (Author)

A number of measurement and design issues that are critical to the use of multiple baseline procedures in evaluating instructional interventions with mentally retarded persons are highlighted. (For related information, see EC 122 157.) (Author/CL)

The Stanford Achievement Test (SAT), 1973 edition, was administered concurrently with the Wide Range Achievement Test (WRAT), level 1, to 296 neurologically impaired and emotionally handicapped students to validate the WRAT (using the SAT as a criterion). (PHR)

A scale was developed to investigate the effect of selected institutional variables on the attitudes of 941 regular class teachers toward mainstreaming special needs children. (Author/CL)

Significant differences were found between the autistic and normal children for distribution of dermal patterns and ridge line disruption, but no significant differences were found for the total mean ridge counts or mean ridge count rankings. (Author)