The behavior of eight hyperactive children was compared to 16 controls (9-10 years old) in two different classroom settings: an informal setting which involved choice and variety of tasks; and a formal setting which involved teacher specification of a small number of tasks. (Author/CL)

The author reviews the accomplishments of the five Learning Disability (LD) Institutes and cites several failings, including lack of longitudinal studies and low level of cooperation among institutes. Successes are seen to include information on the nature and complexity of LD and on important variables in pupils' academic and social success.…

One hundred eighty-seven students, enrolled in three elementary and secondary schools for the deaf, viewed a one-half-hour commercial television program captioned at 60, 90, or 120 words per minute and at increasing levels of linguistic complexity. (Author)

Described is a two-phase investigation of the electroacoustic status of hearing aids used by aurally handicapped students in the Los Angeles City Unified School District. The first phase is said to have involved field examination using portable electroacoustic equipment and the second phase to have included re-examination of 10% of the field…

The reinforcing properties of language were examined with four autistic and five mentally retarded children matched for mean nonverbal mental age (32-37 months). Ss were shaped to pull a lever which produced 2 seconds of a tape recorded story. The story was read with the following conditions: little pitch variance from word to word, but with…

By adapting the scoring procedure of the Gates McGinitie Reading Test, speed and accuracy portion, the reading rates of 185 randomly selected hearing impaired students from residential schools for the deaf were obtained. Rates were then compared with the reading rates of hearing students and extempore speech. (Author)

Parental reactions identified included pride and delight over assessment results, confusion about planning the child's schooling, distress that their child wasn't perfect in all areas of school performance, pursuit of a more active role in helping their child do better in school, and confusion over equalization in status of parent and child roles.…

The concurrent validity of the Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT) with 45 learning disabled children (7- to 12-years-old) was investigated using the California Achievement Test (CAT), the Wide Range Achievement Test (WRAT), and teacher ratings as criterion measures. (Author/DB)

Forty-three learning disabled children referred initially between ages 7 and 14 years to a medical outpatient clinic for developmentally disabled children were evaluated and followed for a period of 5 to 7 years after which their level of academic achievement was reassessed. Initial evaluation included pediatric, neurological and developmental…

The That-Complements test of the Test of Syntactic Abilities was administered to 93 deaf students (age 10-19 years) and 60 hearing students (age 8-11 years). (Author/SBH)