A questionnaire to assess teacher preparation practices in the area of mathematics education was responded to by 152 out of 180 scholarship programs for the training of teachers of mentally retarded children. (DB)

Article describes new efforts being made to identify and assist gifted poor children. (GB)

A new approach in teaching long division, based on a theoretical model of how the brain functions in problem solving, was presented to a group of five mentally ill adolescents who were previously unable to learn long division. (Author)

The study investigated whether the lower audible frequencies (often perceived by the deaf) contained sufficient prosodic features for 32 normal hearing listeners to correctly identify the intended emotions of the speakers. (Author)

In reference to Johs. Clausen's article, Quo Vadis, AAMD?'', appearing in the same journal, the author disagrees with Clausen's viewpoints on the classification of mental dificiency. (CB)

Describes efforts of OE to help gifted and talented students develop to full capacity. (GB)

Reported were the results and implications of a study that investigated the role perception and performance of 56 blind adolescents when compared with their own expectations and the expectations of other persons. (CB)

Reported were data on the mental ages of normal and retarded Ss who achieved successfully on 21 Piagetian reasoning measures. (GW)