Reports that the results of a study that used both classical and naturalist experimental approaches yielded quite different linguistic pictures of the same children. (JL)

Reviewed are the technical problems in the work of Grill and Bartel who attempted to demonstrate that a bias exists in the Grammatical Closure subtest of the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities against speakers of nonstandard English. (SBH)

In two separate studies involving 98 and 59 moderately mentally retarded children (mean ages 12 and 11 years), factor analyses of the Revised Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities (ITPA) were performed to determine if the subtests corresponded to the theoretical model of communication channels, processes, and levels. In the first study, raw…

Reviewed are the results of 38 studies which attempted to train educable and trainable mentally retarded, disadvantaged and other children in psycholinguistic skills and which used the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities as the criterion of improvement. (LC)

The reliability of the proposed short form of the Revised Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities (ITPA) was computed on data derived from six-year-old ITPA standardization test booklets (128 Ss). (Author/CL)

A reexamination of 24 of the 38 efficacy studies of psycholinguistic training reviewed by D. Hammill and S. Larsen (1974) was undertaken in order to determine the validity of their conclusions. (Author/MH)

This systematic review of the literature synthesizes research from a number of disciplines and provides a succinct distillation of the methods and measures used to study the impact of creative drama on the language development of young children. An analysis of the merits and limitations of the reviewed studies reveals a number of methodological…