Paper presented at a meeting of the American Association on Mental Deficiency (Boston, May, 1968).

A literature review, mail survey, and case studies were conducted to investigate the assessment of special needs students for further education college programs in England and Wales. Among findings was that assessment orientations were not always clearly defined and consistently applied. (SW)

The author reviews the accomplishments of the five Learning Disability (LD) Institutes and cites several failings, including lack of longitudinal studies and low level of cooperation among institutes. Successes are seen to include information on the nature and complexity of LD and on important variables in pupils' academic and social success.…

Results showed that, even with efficient instructional procedures, overloading, higher failure rate, and percentage of transposition spelling errors and greater variance in performance may occur when the number of words presented each day exceeds three. (Author)

Nonhandicapped preschool children (N=21) were interviewed about a variety of topics related to deafness and deaf people. Most of the preschoolers expressed at least minimal awareness of deafness. (Author)

The effects of several factors that may explain the socioeconomic bias reported in autism literature was investigated with families of 264 autistic and 258 nonautistic children (mean age six years). (Author/SBH)

The study examined 30 schizophrenic and 30 nonpsychotic but disturbed children (all residents at a psychiatric center and all between 8 and 17 years old) for cognitive deficits in logical thinking, symbolic imagery, and conservation within the Piagetian theory of cognitive development. (Author/SBH)

Using the Canter Background Interference Procedure with the Bender Gestalt Test, a group of 18 adolescent suicide attempters earned test scores indicating they had significantly more problems with visual motor coordination than did a control group of 21 adolescents. (Author/SBH)

The sociometric standing of 42 primary-aged learning disabled students was investigated in a sparsely populated rural area where learning disabled children were mainstreamed in an elementary school in which an "open concept" delivery of services system was in operation. (Author/SBH)

A review of research relating to the role of genetic factors in the hyperactive child syndrome is presented. Twin studies have been limited and adoption studies have been methodologically weak. Findings, however, are consistent and suggest that the genetic transmission hypothesis is plausible. (PHR)

The studies involving two blind adults evaluated a new system-- Trigemina--that relates visual information to blind persons by tactile stimulation through a matrix of 10 x 10 vibrating rods applied to a postage stamp-sized area of skin over the forehead. (Author/SBH)

Mildly retarded, equal MA, and equal CA individuals (total N=30) viewed tachistoscopic presentations of single element displays under a backward visual masking paradigm. The data revealed that, under minimal load conditions, the internal cue-selection component of selective attention for mildly retarded Ss is comparable to that of the nonretarded…