Concludes that the ability to detect small differences in pairs of pictures, letters, or words does not change beyond grade 3, but the ability to recognize sound-alike words improves through the grades. (RB)

Suggests exercises, activities, and materials teachers can use to help students increase awareness of the nonverbal aspects of communication. (RB)

Suggests that perceptual problems may account for the difficulty young children experience in recognizing words. (RB)

Discusses the potential benefits of applying systems theory to self management in order to improve educational administrators' perception of themselves and their awareness of time as a resource. (JG)

Carefully selected stories can help kindergartners develop the habit of looking at situations from different perspectives. (JH)

This article gives three graduate students an opportunity for unstructured expression on: (1) What are counselors? (2) What do they do and what must they do? (3) Who educates them and who, in turn, must they educate? (4) What do they need from within and without to help them accomplish their goals? (Author/PC)

Describes (1) the development and reliability and validity evaluation of the Person Preference Test; and (2) the utilization of the instrument to determine whether clothing style, hair style, global appearance, and part-whole perception influence children's preference for persons represented by stimulus figures. (SDH)

As determined by their scores on Rotter's Locus of Control scale, internal and external subjects were exposed either to a high-, low-, or no fear message on the dangers of exposure to a sunlamp. (Editor/RK)

The objective of the study was to determine the discrepancies in the perceived environment, if any, existing among freshmen, upperclassmen, faculty, and administrators at a southern university. (Editor)

This 535-page document includes more than 60 papers presented at the 20th Annual Conference of the Visual Literacy Association. Topics cover a wide range of visual literacy interests: computer generated graphics, message design, desktop publishing, photography, critical viewing skills, memory enhancement, and the development of visual…

The paper examines issues concerned with the incidence of visual perceptual learning disabilities among deaf and partially hearing children. Evidence indicating a high incidence (15.5 percent of 682 deaf students) of visual perceptual deficits is offered, as is a definition of visual perception. The impact of visual perceptual deficits on…

This study updates a 1985 study which examined the perceptions, policies, and practices of American business regarding older workers, and placed them in the context of larger economic, demographic, and social trends shaping the business climate. The new survey was conducted in July 1989 among a random sample of 400 companies, with 100 each in 4…