The opportunity to read orally to a reinforcing audience (the psychologist) successfully increased the rate of completion of other academic tasks, over a four-week period, by a learning disabled student. The checklist used to record task completion was a simple, inexpensive, and quick technique. (CP)

The use of undergraduates (N=57) working on a one-to-one basis with delinquent youths as the change agents in a nonprofessional program which systematically varied training/supervision/intervention components was investigated. Students and delinquents (N=73) were randomly assigned to one of four experimental training/supervision conditions or to a…

In the 1960s there developed a growing interest in and supportive evidence for programs to alter intellectual competence, particularly in young children. The abilities concept, which is used to classify people by abilities, is not well suited to teaching intellectual competencies or assessing changes in competence. A new concept, intellectual…

A program of family crisis intervention training for police officers was conducted, and the effectiveness of the officers' use of such techniques was evaluated. Twelve police officers were given five to six hours training, five days a week, for five weeks. Training consisted of lectures, films and readings, simulated family crisis interventions,…

Developmental Indicators for the Assessment of Learning (DIAL), a 1 year project in Illinois, funded through Title VI, to develop screening procedures for identification of prekindergarten children with potential learning disabilities is described. Discussed are evaluation of existing test instruments, which did not meet established criteria, and…

A time series procedure, the Shewart Technique, was used in an educational setting with eight academically deficient students to increase the percent of assignments completed. Ss were given mediation training and behavior contracts. The Shewart Technique was found to be useful in providing a formative analysis for intervention. (Tables and graphs…

Proceedings of a conference designed to bring together persons interested in the operation of Suicide Prevention Programs and Comprehensive Community Mental Health Centers are reported. Content addresses deal with the following: (1) total emergency programs; (2) emergency service as an alternate to hospitalization; (3) the utilization of…

This study examined the effectiveness of an intervention program for culturally deprived preschoolers living in a rural area. The subjects, 29 children between the ages of 3 years 10 months and 5 years 3 months, were administered a kindergarten readiness test and the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test at the beginning of the school year and again at…

The nutritional status of Kindergarten children has been studied in relation to performance in behavioral tests and the effects of several types of nutritional intervention in nutrition and behavior have been evaluated. In a study in 1969-70, children who received breakfast and lunch at school showed significant improvement in hemoglobin…

Two problems related to early childhood are studied: the specification of goals and the problem of measurement. Methods used to study these problems are to define objectives in the affective domain and to develop instruments to measure the attainment of these objectives. It is pointed out that the interrelationship between what the child is able…

This paper, part of a long term study, reports the effect of a modified Montessori preschool experience on cognitive development, school-related behaviors, and social interactions and perceptions of disadvantaged children. Each of thirty-five disadvantaged Negro children (31 in nursery classes and 4 in elementary classes) was pair-matched with a…