This paper explores three different language representation methods used to access vocabulary in augmentative alternative communication (AAC) and identifies which are most effective for core and extended vocabulary. The benefits and drawbacks of using spelling, single meaning pictures, and semantic compaction (Minspeak) are described. The paper…

This research deals with the development and study of a methodological alternative to those few tests commonly employed in the measurement of aesthetic preference, and an attempt to determine whether the preferences of elementary school children are for "realistic" or "abstract" types of paintings. (Author)

The data indicated that disadvantaged children required more time to process visual information than did middle-class children, but the processing speed for the 2 groups tended to become more similar as grade level was increased. (Author)

Finding suggests that in perceptual learning situations like that of the present study, there may be no particular advantage to impoverishing the environment'' by minimizing irrelevant cues, at least as far as the children's immediate memory for stimuli is concerned. (Author)

One question prompting the present research concerned the relation between performance under tachistoscopic'' conditions where exposure durations are too brief to permit active overt visual search, and performance when overt search is possible. (Author)

It was concluded that previous explanations of visual exploration or stimulus preference have been oversimplified, and studies on the whole have failed to take into account a crucial interaction between sex and age variables. (Authors)

Explains the use of a metronome to pace phrase reading, rate development, and eye-hand coordination exercises, and to time a sight vocabulary game. Bibliography. (MD)

Results of the study generally support the position that moral ideology is related to identity status. (Authors)

Study investigated whether the observed individual differences in visual pursuit endure beyond the neonatal period. (Authors/MB)