One hundred eighty-seven students, enrolled in three elementary and secondary schools for the deaf, viewed a one-half-hour commercial television program captioned at 60, 90, or 120 words per minute and at increasing levels of linguistic complexity. (Author)

In choice reaction time (RT) tasks, the response of the appropriate finger by mentally retarded Ss is often accompanied by associated movements of responding and nonresponding fingers. To determine the effects of such associated movements, RTs were compared in two conditions with 10 mentally retarded adults. (Author)

Results suggested that LD children suffer from a verbal mediational deficiency consistent with J. Flavell's mediation deficiency hypothesis. (Author)

The study demonstrates that, with a brief training period, deaf adolescents (N=8) can attain a high level of perceptual performance with a tactual speech system in discrimination of certain hard to lipread word pairs pronounced by both a male and a female speaker. (Author/SBH)

Evaluation of mainstream tutorial modules which were designed to help 18 teachers and administrators individualize instruction for mainstreamed handicapped learners pointed out problems and benefits of the system. Teachers were found to require assistance from administrators and specialists in areas of scheduling, materials, preparation time, and…

Threshold variability across repeated measures (N=10) was observed at 250 and 1,000 Hz with five severely hearing-impaired preschool children. Results indicated that variability at 1,000 Hz was within a 10 dB range (except for one measure) across Ss, while variability at 250 Hz was substantially larger, even though false positive responses to…

Twenty-four children (8 to 9 years old) who reversed letters were randomly assigned to either the control or experimental group (15 additional minutes of laterality training per day for 4 weeks). Analysis of results demonstrated that training did not significantly affect the number of reversals. (Author/CL)

The practice of behavior modification in a residential treatment center for 60 emotionally disturbed children (6 to 14 years old) is described, based on the authors' observations over 18 months. Particular attention is given to the influence of context and situation as staff members count units of behavior, report their findings, and meet with…

Inappropriate or inadequately documented medication for patients in mental retardation institutions is a major medical and economic problem. Within a 127-patient ward, 41 patients were treated with anticonvulsants. Of these patients, 24 had no documented indications for usage. (Author)

A simple technique is presented whereby experimenters who must use different word lists for different experimental treatments with exceptional children can postexperimentally establish equivalence of list difficulty. (Author)

The relationship between time estimation and hyperactivity was studied with 135 normal, 6 hyperactive, and 6 mentally retarded boys (ages 7 to 17 years). It was found that only the retarded Ss showed significant differences between elapsed and estimated times, suggesting that time estimation is not clinically useful for identifying hyperactive…

The study investigated the development of language interrogatives in ten deaf children (ages six to eight years) through a program using expanded question structures. (Author/PHR)

Among the findings of the study of 141 dyslexic, reading retarded, and normal reading children was that the classic pathognomic signs of dyslexia (such as letter reversals and rotations) were reliably associated with poor reading but not specifically with diagnosed dyslexia. (Author/DLS)

The ability of the Minnesota Child Development Inventory (MCDI) to identify developmental strengths and weaknesses was investigated with 60 nursery school children and 62 Head Start children. (Author)

Separate studies investigated free-play behavior and its relationship to IQ in 100 normal children, and its usefulness in assessing 16 severely disturbed children. (DLS)