Investigated with 46 learning disabled children (mean age 8 years) was the effect of training paradigmatic language structures on the reading process. (Author/CL)

Behavioral effects of L-5-Hydroxytryptophan (L-5-HTP), administered in combination with carbidopa, were evaluated in three autistic children (4-8 years old) using direct behavioral observation and parent ratings. (Author)

Eleven survivors of Reye's syndrome (a form of severe enaphalopathy) ranging in age from 9 months to 12 years were evaluated for neurological and psychoeducational sequelae. (Author)

A reexamination of 24 of the 38 efficacy studies of psycholinguistic training reviewed by D. Hammill and S. Larsen (1974) was undertaken in order to determine the validity of their conclusions. (Author/MH)

A survey of 300 public residential facilities for the mentally retarded revealed a .06 percent incidence rate for idiot savants, persons of low intelligence who possess an unusually high skill in some special task. (CL)

The author cites research findings which link alcoholism in pregnant women to abnormalities of the central nervous system and mental retardation in offspring. (CL)

Eighteen boys, 10 to 11 years of age, with learning disorders were compared with normally achieving boys on an attention demanding task under the conditions of constant stimulation and stimulus change. (Author/MC)

The hypothesis that it is possible to find among a normal population a group with the same level of intelligence as a group of institutionalized retarded persons was confirmed in a study of 2,000 19-year-old males registering for military service. (Authors)

The alpha rhythm frequencies (8 to 13 cycles per second, occurring during a S's relaxed state with eyes closed, measured by the electroencephalogram) of three groups of Ss (30 Down's Syndrome residents, 21 psychiatric patients, and 10 university students) aged 13 to 24 years, were determined according to explicit criteria. (Author/MC)