A Social Skills Training Program at Western Pennsylvania School for Blind Children provides assessment of interpersonal skills of blind children and adolescents. The three- to four-week training program consists of instructions, modeling, roleplaying, manual guidance, feedback, and positive reinforcement. (SEW)

Ethnographic observations and teacher interviews were conducted in desegregated first grade classrooms to examine teachers' attitudes toward black female students, black females' orientations toward teachers, and black females' peer expectations. The research indicated that: (1) teachers considered black girls to have average or slightly below…