Described is the program at the Okhla Training Center for the Retarded, the only center of its kind in New Dehli, India, which offers an educational and training program for the mentally retarded individuals (4 to 14 years and older). (SBH)

This article on preschool in China focuses on the educational philosophy, objectives, and methods of implementation of preschool programs in China. A comparison with preschool programs in Australia is made at every point. (CM)

Along with the implementation of curricula for art instruction, one must become more aware of and more actively involved in nurturing the role of aesthetic considerations in bringing up children and in providing the props of their pleasure and instruction as respected criteria for their decision-making. (Author)

Describes the development of a preschool toy-lending library which makes materials available for center children's home use on weekends. Planning, physical organization, procedures, policy and recordkeeping aspects are described in detail, and the significance of the library in terms of parent-child, parent-teacher and teacher-child interaction is…

Described is an Australian early intervention program for intellectually and emotionally handicapped preschoolers. (CL)

A discussion of the findings of a recent follow-up study of children who had participated in one of fourteen infant or preschool experimental programs during the 1960's. (BD)

Training in perspective-taking skills (the ability to imagine how objects look relative to one another from another person's point of view) resulted in considerable transfer of learning to other tasks and continued subject superiority over controls seven months later, indicating an inter-stage change in cognition. (MJB)

This study describes the developmental function and cross-age pattern of individual differences in mental test behavior during the first 5 years of life. Accompanying the study are brief commentaries by Ina C. Uzgiris and Earl S. Schaefer and a reply by the authors. (JMB)

To assess relations between behaviors in a particular circumscribed caretaker-child interaction setting and child behavioral dispositions assessed by more extensive observation, caretaker-child interaction data was collected for 40 children across several days in a nursery school free-play setting. These data were related to child behavioral…

A review of the literature dealing with the effects of stimulative intervention on premature infants. (BRT)

After viewing "Sesame Street" inserts containing non-white children, white preschool children showed a strong preference for playing with nonwhites as opposed to whites. This attitude sharply contrasted with control group preferences. (BRT)

The paper focuses on two research instruments, the Kohn Social Competence Scale and the Kohn Symptom Checklist, designed to assess the behavior of children in a preschool setting as well as on two factor-analytically derived dimensions of social-emotional functioning which the instruments measure. (SBH)