To investigate the ability of 48 blind and partially sighted children (8 to 10 and 12 to 14 years old) to assume the upright position, Ss were given six trials in which they were requested to move themselves from a tilted starting position in a specially constructed chair to an upright position. No significant differences were found between three…

The study involving 67 learning disabled (LD) children (grades 1 through 8) was designed to track the developmental course of the understanding of the more subtle forms of feedback (i.e., facial expression), to examine LD children's understanding of nonexplicit requests for clarification relative to that of normal achieving children, and to…

The reinforcing properties of language were examined with four autistic and five mentally retarded children matched for mean nonverbal mental age (32-37 months). Ss were shaped to pull a lever which produced 2 seconds of a tape recorded story. The story was read with the following conditions: little pitch variance from word to word, but with…

Use of contextual cues in language comprehension by hearing impaired persons is considered in two sections. The first section summarizes a study of how 21 hard of hearing children (7-12 years old) used contextual cues to identify words in sentences heard from a tape recorder. Results are explained to indicate that identification of words on the…

The report describes a study of the sex ratios in learning disabilities among 305 Israli children in kindergarten, second grade, and fifth grade which found no gender differences in reading disability cases. Contrary findings of an apparent sex-linked component of learning disabilities among U.S. children are examined. (CL)

A 6-month study involving 30 college students was conducted to investigate what happens when hearing students are confronted with deaf students on a daily basis. During the summer, Ss were given a 25-item questionnaire taken from the Attitudes towards Deafness scale. Six months later, face-to-face interviews were conducted with 30 of the initial…

Summarized are four studies which compared the ability of learning disabled (LD) and normal students to learn the meanings of homonyms (words that sound alike but have different meanings) when presented in various modes. Homonyms were presented in either random order or in contiguous pairs, with the illustrative sentences presented after the word…

Described is the Aston Index, a pilot instrument designed for screening dyslexic-type language difficulties in young children. It is explained that the index consists of three forms to test children at three stages of development (such as those who have been in school about 6 months), that it represents an "integrated" approach, and that it…

Presented is a summary of the Final Report of the federally funded Project on Classification of Exceptional Children. Reviewed is the scope of the project which emphasized such aspects as the effects of labeling on individual children and the technical adequacy of diagnostic and classification systems. Among limitations ascribed to categories and…

The bibliography on child neglect includes approximately 130 entries grouped under the following categories: general, prevention, identification, etiology, treatment, and sequelae. Within each category, articles appear in alphabetical order by author's name and usually include the title, date of publication, source, length, and an abstract. (LS)

Presented is research to support the orthomolecular rather than the psychodynamic approach to treating schizophrenia, psychoses, and allied disorders in children. The orthomolecular approach, also known as orthomolecular psychiatry, is reported to involve the administration of megavitamins (following a study to determine biochemical needs),…

A questionnaire was sent to 230 private nursery schools in Northwest Los Angeles County to determine the schools' willingness to enroll children with handicaps. Of the 72 schools that responded, 60 were agreeable to having children with handicaps referred to them, 27 had children presently attending with physical handicaps, and 17 had children…

Investigated was the effectiveness of a flashcard and fading tutoring procedure in increasing the spelling performance of a 9-year-old boy. The S practiced word completion four times a week (20 minutes per session) on four different words each session, and was tested at the end of each week on all 16 words. During 3 weeks of tutoring, S's spelling…

The annotated bibliography on dyslexia contains approximately 50 abstracts and associated indexing information for documents published from 1966 to 1973 and selected from the computer files of the Council for Exceptional Children's Information Services and the Education Resources Information Center (ERIC). It is explained that titles were chosen…

Examined with 7 counselors and 28 mentally retarded clients were relationships among eight independent counselor, client and situational variables and four dependent variables of counselor empathy, respect, genuineness and concreteness, and client self-exploration. The dependent variables were derived from 315 3-minute tape recorded segments of…