The effects of extent and kind of external control during training on later resistance to temptation were examined in preschool children. Boys transgressed significantly more quickly than girls. (ST)

Intended for parents, the article explains the role of the pediatrician in the regular care of the infant and child. (DB)

The effects of competing auditory stimuli on the performance of 11 possibly learning disabled children and 11 normal children were compared. (Author)

Investigated developmental changes in children's judgments of age of people in photographs with emphasis on judgments correlating age and physical size. Results were discussed in terms of previous age perception studies and Piagetian Theory. (DP)

By understanding the creative act it may be possible to assess the effectiveness of the traditional nursery school program for all children, including developmentally handicapped children. (Editor)

The effects of sentence length and structure on the accuracy of sentence repition by 13 normal speaking and 13 language disordered children were compared. (Author)

To test interrater reliability on the Infant Rating Scale (an assessment instrument for screening educationally "at risk" young children), two teachers completed the scale for the same group of pupils. The reported level of interrater reliability was considered very satisfactory. (Author/MJL)

Two experiments involving four and seven normal children four- to eight-years-old examined processes responsible for generative language acquisition and conditions likely to facilitate recombinative generalization. All children learned new syntactic rules to generate three word utterances, regardless of the orderings of agent, action, and object…

Comparison of language patterns of parents of 10 autistic and 10 normal young children indicated few significant differences other than that the parents of autistic Ss used more nonlanguage oriented language and spoke more often. Mothers' and fathers' language patterns differed in several ways, including that mothers took more active roles.…

Reviews the theoretical and empirical studies concerning the relationships between the process and content of young children's symbolic play and their early literacy development. Implications for classroom practice are also presented. (MP)

Pragmatic function and level of linguistic stress in five speech delayed children (four to six years old) were studied as they relate to variability in phonological performance. Results indicated that both type of pragmatic function and level of linguistic stress were associated with reduction in the occurrence of natural phonological processes.…