Describes a 3-part presentation for preschoolers to help them learn about hospitals: reading a story and showing pictures; demonstrating hospital equipment; and encouraging children to "play hospital" with the equipment. (ED)

This study assessed the validity of striking a Bobo clown as a measure of aggression by correlating the rate of this behavior with peer ratings, teacher ratings, and self-ratings of aggressiveness in a preschool. (Author/JMB)

Describes the symptoms and treatment of hyperactivity in preschool children. (SB)

Summarizes a recent Center for Research on Elementary and Middle Schools (CREMS) literature review on effective kindergarten and preschool programs. Over the past 20 years, kindergarten enrollment has expanded, the students are older, and the days are getting longer. Preschool enrollment has also grown tremendously. Effective programs are briefly…

The article demonstrates how verbal elaboration can be used effectively to facilitate preschoolers' creative play. It is suggested that rather than being an artifact of incidental learning, creative play should be planned and structured actively within the preschool curriculum. (Author/DB)

In three experiments involving sets containing from 2z to 19 objects, preschool children gave the last counted word as the answer to the question "How many objects are there?" The relationship between children's answering with the last counted word to a how-many question and counting accurately varied with set size. (Author/RH)

Eight children in a special preschool for children with language delay learned 57 two, three, and four-word syntactic forms. Forty-two of the forms generalized to Subjects' spontaneous language in free play. There was a relationship between the complexity and potential functions of the treated forms and their generalization to free play. (CL)

The article reviews trends in the assessment of preschool children by comparing preschool assessment with the assessment of other populations and discussing its current status, recent advances, and future needs. Specific areas of assessment such as cognition, adaptive behavior, and social and emotional functioning are addressed. (Author/DB)

Although social development is a commonly cited educational goal, little systematic programming occurs for the development of social skills among the preschool handicapped, especially for the development of interpersonal skills. Insight into the reasons for this neglect leads to suggestions for correcting it. (Author/CL)

The study examined the extent to which generalization of correct phoneme production occured in various speaking environments and across word positions without direct training with three preschoolers with articulation disorders. Results indicated that generalization occurred in the two speaking environments without direct training. The extent to…

The study investigated the effects of auditory training within a musical context on 12 severely to profoundly hearing-impaired preschoolers' use of residual hearing. A significant improvement was found in the children's ability to discriminate and recognize auditory stimuli. However, the lowest level in the hierarchy of auditory perception,…

The speech of 1,048 children (two to four years old) was screened for the presence of velar and palatal forms of the phonological process of fronting. Sixty-seven children were identified as exihibiting the fronting process. Velar fronting occurred more frequently than palatal fronting. Incidence of fronting decreased with increasing age.…

The differentiated curriculum of the Univerisity of Illinois Preschool Program for the Gifted is based on two instructional models, the open classroom and an instructional model derived from Guilford's Structure of the Intellect. The article describes recruitment, identification, goals and objectives, and programing. (Author/CL)

Results of a study involving eight Down's Syndrome Ss (two to three years old) revealed no overall relationship between Ss's imitation performance in a prosodic task and in a task using speech sounds as stimuli. (CL)