Questionnaires regarding facility descriptors, development, areas of operational concern, resident characteristics, programs and services were completed by personnel from 3,325 residential facilities for the developmentally disabled. (CL)

Reported was an increase of pneumoccal disease associated with meningitis or septicemia in 14 neonates at one hospital. (DB)

Expectancy in stuttering was investigated with 10 young adult stutterers under conditions that approximate more closely than in previous work the circumstances and mode in which expectancy is purported to operate. (Author/GW)

Thirty kindergarteners, 15 who substituted /w/ for /r/ and 15 with correct articulation received two perception tests and a memory test that included /w/ and /r/ in minimally contrastive syllables. (Author)

A study involving 22 fathers and 21 mothers was conducted to explore several personality characteristics of child abusive parents which may set them apart from nonabusive peers. A social history was taken, and each parent completed both the Motivation Analysis Test (MAT) and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). Among findings…

Two experiments examined the ability of learning disabled versus nondisabled third to fifth grade children (N=20) to ingratiate an adult interviewer. In each experiment an equal number of disabled and nondisabled youngsters were instructed to act natural, and an equal number were instructed to "try and get the lady to like you." Naive college…

The influence of situational expectations, conditioned by previous experience, on the interpretation of entire prose passages was investigated with 22 hearing and 18 hearing impaired adolescents. The ambiguous paragraph model was borrowed from D. Schallert and two separate paragraphs were constructed. Ten multiple choice questions were generated…

The selective bibliography on autism contains approximately 90 abstracts and associated indexing information for documents published from 1966 to 1974 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 in…

Described are two different statistical methods (component and discriminant analysis) used to compare electroencephalographic patterns of normal and three types of mentally retarded persons ages 7- to 41-years-old. (CL)

The annotated bibliography on learning disabilities research contains approximately 100 abstracts and associated indexing information for documents, published from 1963 through 1973, which have been selected from the computer file of the Information Center of the Council for Exceptional Children. It is explained that the abstracts were chosen…