Administration of L-dopa to 4 hospitalized autistic boys for 6 months lowered blood serotonin concentrations and increased platelet counts but did not produce any changes in the clinical course of the disease. (KW)

Learning disabled subjects functioned on both the cognitive and perceptual sections of a Time Understanding Inventory at a level three grades below their CA grade placement equivalent, suggesting that their lack of mastery of time concepts represented a generalized rather than specific disability. (KW)

An alternative to the ego-based explanations for the autistic child's characteristic patterns of pronominal reversals and avoidances is an approach based on studies of echolalia which considers grammatical aspects of acquisition, reversal, and nonreversal. Focus is consequently shifted from primacy of expressive I to comprehension of you/me…

Normal, preterm, and high-risk infants were tested at 1, 3, 6, and 12 months of age using averaged electroencephalic audiometry (AEA) to determine the usefulness of AEA as a measurement technique for assessing auditory acuity in infants, and to delineate some of the procedural and technical problems often encountered. (KW)