Five studies were reported in which the magnitude of the influence of word length upon the loci of instances of disfluency in the oral reading of 132 stutterers and 141 nonstutterers was investigated. (Author/DB)

Compared were psychomotor test battery scores of 272 institutionalized retarded subjects and 1500 mentally ill institutionalized patients ranging in age from approximately 10 to 60 years. (DB)

The American Association of Mental Dificiency's (AAMD) position on terminology and classification in mental retardation was reviewed in terms of the AAMD's definition of mental deificiency and the inclusion in the definition of mental deficiency of the concept of adaptive behavior. (Author/CB)

Discussed are problems in the verbal comprehension and production of personal pronouns by learning disabled children. A learning approach based on echolalia and favoring a focus on the pronoun you which the child hears is advocated. (KW)

The effects of sentence length and structure on the accuracy of sentence repition by 13 normal speaking and 13 language disordered children were compared. (Author)