Evaluated was the effect on standardized test scores of allowing six 4th grade learning disabled children to have a helper fill in the machine scored answer grid according to the child's verbal answers to the test questions. (Author/DB)

Psychiatric diagnostic labels influenced all evaluations made by 90 nursing students viewing filmed play interviews with children labeled normal, schizophrenic, and obsessive compulsive. (CL)

The study, involving 195 gifted third, fourth, and sixth graders, examined the effectiveness and efficiency of teacher recommendation as a means of identying gifted children. (Author/SBH)

Twenty-three psychotic children, ranging in age from 5 to 16, were interviewed in half-hour play sessions designed to elicit statements using the pronouns "I,""you," and "he" to express the concepts of possession, action, and description. (Author/SBH)

Chronic rumination (voluntary vomiting and reconsumption of the vomitus) was eliminated in a ten-year-old severely emotionally disturbed boy through an overcorrection procedure. (CL)

Arguments are presented suggesting that single-subject research designs can form a basis for establishing a working relationship between researchers and clinicians in the field of learning disabilities. (Author/PHR)

The effects of category size and instruction to cluster on the free-recall learning of 112 nonretarded (mean age 7 years) and retarded children (mean age 10 years) were assessed. (Author)

Compared were performances of 175 educable mentally retarded (6-18 years old) and 737 nonretarded first-grade students on the Peabody Mathematics Readiness Test. (Author/CL)

The effectiveness of two teaching procedures--antecedent and contingent modeling--in teaching basic sight vocabulary to learning disabled children was tested with two primary-school-age boys with severe reading disabilities. (Author/DLS)