Article concluded that furthering the development of behavior modification practices for ameliorating the academic behaviors of children in conjunction with furthering the development of ways for teaching parents to implement these practices are important activities. (Author/RK)

Analyzes the problems of the school psychologist, his relationship with the school as a whole as well as with individual children, and the effect teachers can have on child psychological development. (RK)

Purpose of this investigation was to assess the effects of behavioral objectives, criterion evaluation, and remediation upon the classroom progress of disruptive adolescents. (Authors)

Deals with the personal relevance of infraction" in variable sociocultural contexts by examining the association between delinquency and adolescent self-conceptions among junior and senior high school students differentiated on the basis of race and status. (Author/JM)

Fifty behavior problems were rated according to their seriousness by 100 teachers and 20 school psychologists. (Author)

Study sought to: (1) identify pupil learning, behavior, and adjustment problems for which teachers feel they need remediation strategies; (2) present rationale for behavior change strategies, and (3) test two strategies for working with representative problems identified by teachers. Case studies appended. (Author/EK)

Concludes that perceptual-motor activities are not likely to improve reading skills directly but suggests that there are a number of reasons for including such activities as an addition to the curriculum. Tables and bibliography. (RW)

Junior high school students, particularly Negroes, experience an excessive amount of inner conflict because they are lacking in social skills and confidence. These feelings of insecurity stem mainly from an awareness of social ostracism. (CK)

Reviews self-control instruction for retarded students and describes a self-recording training procedure. Five moderately retarded adolescents were taught to self-record a training behavior and generalize the self-recording behavior to idiosyncratic behaviors. Subject-observer agreement is reported, along with monitoring effects on the…

The effects of a simple timeout procedure on the eye gouging and head wagging behavior of a totally blind, seven-year-old child were studied. Parent and staff reports suggested that the reduction in manneristic behaviors was associated with the emergence of more acceptable and age appropriate social behavior. (SEW)

Several decades of scientific inquiry on the effect of malnutrition on brain function in early life are summarized, and the findings are related to more current trends in child eating patterns and the use of special dietary regimes for children with learning disabilities. (SW)

Research evidence regarding the educability of profoundly retarded persons is reviewed. Attention is focused on five areas of research: the development of motor skills, self-help skill training, social and communication behavior development, the reduction of severe maladaptive behaviors, and the impact of environmental factors on learning. (SEW)