Current diagnostic and labeling practices were studied with 26 children with learning disabilities and other learning handicaps. (Author/DLS)

The performance of 77 retarded young adults and adults on five short-term memory tasks was analyzed in order to determine whether these talks possessed construct and ecological validity. (Author)

A multiple-baseline design was used to evaluate facial screening (covering a subject's face with a terrycloth bib) as a means of reducing a 20-year-old retarded person's self-injurious behavior. (Author/SBH)

Analyzed are results of a questionnaire completed by 36 former students of gifted intermediate programs. (CL)

D. Campbell and D. Fiske's multitrait-multimethod matrix was applied to data from two independent social learning measures designed to evaluate procedures used to aid 47 aggressive children (5-15 years old). (Author/CL)

Described are three studies which examined the effect of filmed modeling on cooperative play in disadvantaged children. (Author/CL)

Twenty adolescent male offenders and 36 nonoffenders were compared on two tasks designed to assess reactions to the nonverbal emotion expressions of others. (Author)

A specific methodology for teaching a chosen visual symbol system and facilitating its usage in nonspeech communication by nonverbal handicapped persons, Visual Symbol Communication Instruction, was implemented with five nonverbal, mentally retarded individuals (3 to 17 years old). (Author/SBH)

Follow-up data on 57 schizophrenic patients, including 25 boys and 32 girls between the ages of 7 and 13, was obtained. (Author)

Presented are the results of a national study in which the Performance Scale of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised was standardized on a national sample of 1,228 deaf children between the ages of 6 and 16 years. (DLS)

Performances of 51 gifted and 51 normal intermediate students on 11 subtests of the Iowa Achievement Test indicated that vocabulary, mathematics concepts, spelling and graph interpretation were the areas that best discriminated the gifted Ss from the normal Ss. (CL)

Thirty-seven palm prints and 30 sole prints of people with 9p trisomy (a chromosomal anomaly associated with abnormal limb development) were analysed with respect to frequency distribution of loops and triradii on palms, soles, and fingertips, as well as of the total pattern types. (Author)

The classroom behavior of 15 learning disabled (LD) third and fourth grade boys was compared to that of 15 matched normal Ss to determine differences in behavioral style and to examine LD Ss' behavior in different classroom environments. (Author/CL)

Parieto-occipital electroencephalograms were recorded during resting baseline intervals, during an initial instruction period, and during active performance on mental arithmetic and immediate recall tasks to determine if 10 learning disabled boys (10-12 years old) would show less alpha attenuation than 11 normal controls. (Author/CL)