It is hard to address the needs of the estimated three million gifted middle level students who attend school in the United States (Clarenbach, 2007), and No Child Left Behind has made it even harder because school performance is determined by success on standardized tests--which often means that low performance is severely penalized and high-end…

To assess whether over selectivity is a generalized problem in a given autistic child, eight over selective children were identified and then tested to determine whether they would respond over selectively across a wide variety of tasks. Data suggested that autistic children sometimes respond to multiple features and sometimes they respond over…

Low positive correlation between sentence familiarity and lipreading values was found when deaf college students were used to determine quantitative sentence familiarity and lipreading values of the John Tracy Clinic Filmed Test of Lipreading. (Author/KW)

Compared were the free recall performances of 30 learning disabled (LD) and 30 normal children (all in elementary grades) when the level of difficulty and/or the material organization were varied. (Author/DB)

Hair samples of 61 autistic children and 15 normal children were analyzed and found to have no significant difference in amino acid content. (CL)

The selected bibliography of research on learning disabilities contains approximately 80 abstracts with indexing information explained to be drawn from the computer file of abstracts representing the Council for Exceptional Children Information Center's complete holdings as of July, 1972. Abstracts are said to be chosen using the criteria of…

Three 24 member groups of retarded adolescents, chronological age-matched adolescents, and mental age-matched children were assessed in their ability to match the repetition rate of 10-second stimulus sequences presented under four modality switching conditions (unimodal, trimodal double, trimodal single periodic, and trimodal single aperiodic),…

Influence of a behavioral model upon hearing impaired children's behavior and judgments was investigated and found to be significant: 30 of the 32 subjects imitated the behavior of the model to whom he had been exposed. (KW)