Although painting is still recognized as an international language, few people are actually capable of "reading" the great works of art that have given depth to mankind's existence. Here is a lesson in "reading a painting". (Author/RK)

Investigates the experimental treatments (scanning practice and perceptual training-drawing) developed by Salome and Szeto, 1976, in an attempt to determine the training effects upon students' representational drawing performances. (Author/RK)

Outlines briefly the historical development of the field of learning disabilities, describes its present status with a discussion of some of the major issues and controversies, and indicates some emerging trends and future directions. (Author/RK)

Elementary school students (N=67) from three ethnic groups were systematically exposed, over a one-month period, to specially produced television commercials. Results indicate children do learn about occupations from television content and they also learn to stereotype or nonstereotype various occupations based on sex of the TV model. (Author)

The relationship between success and failure in high school and delinquent behavior is examined in this article. (JD)

Three distinctions are proposed to determine necessary efforts to improve the relationship between police and the public: first whether groups within the public have contrary expectations; second, whether significance of disagreements can be specified; and third, whether negative evaluations of police represent conflicting beliefs about proper…

Eight, ten, and twelve year old children were tested on a novel procedure involving the successive presentation of standard and comparision stimuli. Two hypotheses were evaluated: one dealing with memory effects, and the other with children's pretesting of choice responses in spatial information processing. (Editor/RK)

A comparative study of nonverbal MA matched groups of five autistic, five aphasic, five normal and five retarded children (3 to 16 years old) was made on an auditory-visual and a visual-visual paired-associate learning task. (Author)

Three variables in the process of educational change are examined as they relate to media specialists: timeliness, trade-off processes, and the nature of responses to demands for change. New American Association of School Librarians/Association for Educational Communications and Technology guidelines for media specialists, published in "Media…

35 undergraduates segmented one of two videotapes of an actor methodically assembling 20 five-page questionnaires. Tests the hypothesis that behavior that differs systematically in the availability of action-defining changes will be segmented into perceived actions in a systematically different way. (Author/RK)

The effects of visual paradigmatic organization on verbal recall among language/learning disabled children was studied with 20 such children (age: 8-13 years), who were screened to eliminate visual memory deficits. (Author)

Central auditory function was assessed in 10 stutterers and 10 nonstutterers between the ages of 10 and 35 years, and the performance of the two groups compared for seven audiometric procedures, including acoustic reflex threshold and acoustic reflex amplitude function. (Author)

This study examined the race-class stereotypes of black and white college students in terms of the class of blacks and whites being stereotyped and the race and perceived class of the subjects (80 black and 74 white college students). (CM)

To counteract society's hostility toward homosexuality, effective social work with lesbian couples and families must include cultural as well as clinical work. This article suggests a multilevel approach, including self-exploration on the part of the worker, acquisition of specific clinical tools, and assumption of an advocacy stance with lesbian…