Study sought to: (1) identify pupil learning, behavior, and adjustment problems for which teachers feel they need remediation strategies; (2) present rationale for behavior change strategies, and (3) test two strategies for working with representative problems identified by teachers. Case studies appended. (Author/EK)

Concludes that perceptual-motor activities are not likely to improve reading skills directly but suggests that there are a number of reasons for including such activities as an addition to the curriculum. Tables and bibliography. (RW)

Junior high school students, particularly Negroes, experience an excessive amount of inner conflict because they are lacking in social skills and confidence. These feelings of insecurity stem mainly from an awareness of social ostracism. (CK)

Subjects with higher verbal than performance IQ's achieved significantly poorer Pascal-Suttell Bender-Gestalt scores than subjects with higher performance over verbal IQ's. The latter subjects were more likely to have dropped out of high school and to have spent some time in prison. (Author/RD)

Reviews self-control instruction for retarded students and describes a self-recording training procedure. Five moderately retarded adolescents were taught to self-record a training behavior and generalize the self-recording behavior to idiosyncratic behaviors. Subject-observer agreement is reported, along with monitoring effects on the…

The effects of a simple timeout procedure on the eye gouging and head wagging behavior of a totally blind, seven-year-old child were studied. Parent and staff reports suggested that the reduction in manneristic behaviors was associated with the emergence of more acceptable and age appropriate social behavior. (SEW)

Several decades of scientific inquiry on the effect of malnutrition on brain function in early life are summarized, and the findings are related to more current trends in child eating patterns and the use of special dietary regimes for children with learning disabilities. (SW)

Research evidence regarding the educability of profoundly retarded persons is reviewed. Attention is focused on five areas of research: the development of motor skills, self-help skill training, social and communication behavior development, the reduction of severe maladaptive behaviors, and the impact of environmental factors on learning. (SEW)

The behavior of 40 mainstreamed educable mentally retarded (EMR) children enrolled in 10 elementary schools was compared based on teacher rating scales and controlled behavioral observations. (SEW)

Sixty-eight teachers were randomly assigned to one of four experimental conditions involving written information descriptions (positive and negative) and videotaped behavior (withdrawn and acting out). Findings suggest that a behaviorally disordered child should be seen as a student with specific problems within the normal range of behavior.…

Surveyed 619 college freshmen to determine how many considered themselves to have drinking problems. Results showed males and youngest children in the family had the most problems. Both males and females who had drinking problems reported stressful childhoods, and were twice as likely to have divorced parents. (JAC)

Three conditions of behavioral disturbances and impaired school performance (learning disability, attentional disorder, and childhood major depression) are suggested as being associated with dysfunction of the right cerebral hemisphere. (Author/PN)

Determined if a child would continue to be rejected by a student teacher if the child's behavior improved. Student teachers (N=39) selected a target child exhibiting disruptive behavior. An experimental group used techniques of alternative reinforcement on the problem child. Results indicated teachers' attitudes were highly stable. (RC)