The intellectual level of parents of psychotic children in residential treatment at the Ittelson Center was investigated in a sample of 48 mothers with a mean full scale I Q (FIQ) of 109.2 and of 43 fathers with a mean FIQ of 116.3 on the Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence scale. (Author/MC)

Implications from production of depressive behaviors in young monkeys were made for the study of child psychoses. (CB)

A treatment program for psychotic and autistic children in which parents are helped to function as primary developmental agents is described and evaluated. (Author)

Examined were research data on the symptomology and etiology of three classes of psychiatric disorder in children: autism, schizophrenia, and disintegrative psychosis

The concept of human relatedness was reexamined in the context of a standardized evaluation of 55 boys and 13 girls referred with a diagnosis of childhood psychosis. (Author)

An experimental study designed to examine the relative effectiveness of operant conditioning and play therapy in improving the communication and social functioning of psychotic children was presented and discussed. (Author)

Language, perceptual, motor, and behavioral abnormalities were compared in autistic, receptive aphasic, executive aphasic, partially blind and deaf children, those with Down's syndrome, and normal children. (Author)