The first paper considers the rationale and presents some criteria for assessing the speech perception of children with disorders at the phonological level of language. In Part II, methods to assess speech perception are grouped into two types, including speech production-perception tasks and oddity tasks. (Author/CL)

Investigated was whether the visual discrimination performances of 16 primary-grade, conceptually impulsive school children could be modified by altering the directions and administration procedures of a visual discrimination match-to-sample test. (Author/JYC)

Assessed were the abilities of 50 normal 5-to 9-year-old children and 30 learning disabled 7-to 9-year-old children to recognize temporal patterns presented visually and auditorially (intramodal abilities) and to vocally produce the patterns whether presentation was visual or auditory (intramodal and cross-modal abilities). (MC)

Presented are a rebuttal and a counter-rebuttal to an earlier article questioning the educational usefulness of perceptual tests with learning disabled children. (DB)

Examined was the relationship between the Frostig Developmental Test of Visual Perception and academic achievement as measured by the scholastic Research Association Achievement Test Battery with 125 primary grade children. (Author/DB)

The relationships between specific aspects of peripheral ocular defects and perceptual deficits were investigated in a cerebral palsied population of 60 spastics, 60 athetoids, and 60 non-neurologically impaired Ss, 7 to 21 years of age. (Author/MC)