States that a link exists between language disorders and emotional/behavioral disorders. Provides results of using Positive Peer Culture (PPC) treatment with 14- to 18-year-old males (N=130) incarcerated in a residential treatment center. Suggests that PPC may facilitate communication ability for incarcerated youth. (MKA)

Investigates the impact of a horticultural therapy program on 48 county jail inmates. Examines the changes in psychosocial functioning of the participants while in treatment and in post-release. Explores the clinical relevance of horticultural therapy in cultivating healthy self-development. (MKA)

The results from four early intervention evaluation studies are described in relationship to their impact on parent-child interaction. Intervention effects on child development were unlikely to occur unless mothers modified their style of interacting. Only their level of responsiveness was associated with positive developmental outcomes.…

Investigates Channel One's educational benefits to teachers and students. Finds benefits are a student-heightened interest in geography, current events, and pop quizzes; and disadvantages are the commercials, superficial programming, intrusion into the school day, lack of integration into the curriculum, and limited availability of the equipment…

The widely implemented "Success For All" program is designed to restructure elementary schools serving children at risk of failure. Primary goals are preventing remediation and empowering students. Principals must manage program resistance, create a supportive culture, demonstrate commitment to program structures, select appropriate…

A broad range of school, home, societal, and community-based interventions have been tried for at-risk students. Inner-city teachers (N=56) rated the effectiveness of interventions directed toward minimizing risks that students confront. Early-intervention programs, integrated services, family-based interventions, and welfare and child-protection…

Suggests several intervention qualities (punishment, catharsis, and cohabitation) characteristic of approaches that do and do not yield violence-reducing outcomes. Proposes more effective perspectives on youth violence intervention including complexity, prescriptiveness, situationality, and aggression-as-learned behavior. (Author/JDM)

A review of 14 studies on treatment strategies for sleep problems in individuals with severe mental retardation found the following treatments had been used: sleep scheduling, bedtime routine plus gradual distancing of parents, extinction, bedtime fading with or without response cost, chronotherapy, and melatonin. Results of treatments are…

Discusses how not all children have benefited from the Accelerated Literacy Learning program. Conducts a case study to illuminate various rates of progress between students who began the school year with similar academic profiles but returned to different classroom environments after their daily lessons. Finds a complex relationship between the…

Describes six programs: special-needs instructional support services, Lakeshore Technical College, Wisconsin; services for deaf and hard of hearing, Hinds Community College, Mississippi; program accessibility committee, Florence-Darlington Technical College, South Carolina; Project ABLE, Metropolitan Community College, Missouri; Center for Special…

Describes a three-year collaborative project, Investigating Our Community, involving teachers and fourth, fifth, and sixth graders. Focuses on moving from mandated curriculum that defines inquiry with known outcomes to inquiry that explores the unknown knowledge and stories of their school's neighborhood. Finds that a community investigation…

The effectiveness of a parenting-training program, Mothers Inside Loving Kids, was evaluated (N=40). Effects on parenting techniques and on self-esteem were studied. Data from a national profile of incarcerated women are reviewed, and the effects of mother's incarceration on children are discussed. Implications for public policy are addressed.…

Responds to an article in the April 1998 issue of this journal. Shares evidence about the effectiveness of peer tutoring. Discusses literacy tutoring of K-3 emergent readers by volunteers. Explains why tutoring is not teaching, and offers a model for successful tutoring practices. (SR)

Replies to an article in the same issue of this journal, which responded to this author's earlier article. Elaborates two fundamental points of disagreement (the definition of tutoring and the characteristics of the children being tutored). (SR)

Shows that literature-based curricula can be successful on a large scale. Uses data from standardized test scores and from extensive teacher surveys to show that these two large districts made commitments to literature-based holistic instruction and supported it with strong professional development programs, resulting in convincing evidence that…