Empirical research to support the claim of advocates of laboratory training as an effective means of training leaders and managers in communication is lacking. Further, there are some who raise serious questions about this methodology which need to be answered. This paper reports an experiment designed to investigate four questions revolving…

A demonstration project was conducted involving itinerant educational consultant services for preschool visually handicapped children with the objective of preventing social and sensory deprivation and of developing personal independence. Channels were established for referral of applicable visually handicapped preschool children to the program.…

The major premise of this collection of articles and essays is that successful intercultural communication is a matter of highest importance if man and society are to survive. The purpose of the book is to create a new understanding of intercultural communication and assist the reader in developing his own skills in this area. The book provides…

Presented are three scripts on training, orientation, and role of a model preschool staff, on building interpersonal competence in a preschool child, and on a model of staff training, orientation, and role in a university setting. The first script contains commentary for 80 slides on staff training for a model preschool mental retardation research…

Reviewed is the California Preschool Social Competency Scale intended for use with children 2 years 6 months through 5 years 6 months of age. (DB)

Four learning disabled children (6-9 years old) were taught four positive social-emotional behaviors--smiling, sharing, positive physical contacting, and verbal complimenting--using instructions, modelling, and praise. (Author)

Student volunteers from private high schools finished interpersonal style and sentence completion tests and were scored as to sex role type (masculine, feminine, androgynous, undifferentiated) on the Bem Sex Role Inventory. The discriminate function analysis supported the configurational method of combining scores on masculinity and femininity.…

Learning disabled adolescents often exhibit psychosocial deficits independent of academic failure and frustration. (PHR)

Individuals and groups who deal with others are constantly engaged in working out strategies, or choosing and reassessing their objectives and planning effective ways of achieving them. Presents a framework for understanding the conditions that give rise to strategic relationships and discusses five variables that influence their formation.…

Investigates the relationship between communication apprehension and aspects of the social dimension of college life. Results are examined within the context of the Berger-Calabrese developmental theory of interpersonal communication, and an extension of that theory is tentatively advanced. (JMF)

Concepts and suggestions are offered to deaf adolescents for achieving independent living or social independence. (BD)

A number of philosophical points of view that have guided parents' attempts to socialize their children are presented. Research findings and conclusions that explore the impact on children of parental disciplinary practices are discussed. (Author/AM)

Reviews the rationale underlying, characteristics of, and available research on four popular elementary school affective programs--"Human Development Program,""Developing Understanding of Self and Others,""Toward Affective Development," and "Dimensions of Personality." Despite problems several of the programs appear to have some merit if used…

The author describes a set of twelve curriculum modules called "Occupational Survival Skills" relating to the "human" aspects of work organizations. The modules were based on information from opinion surveys of workers, students, parents, and teachers on what occupational survival skills are and how to teach them. (MF)

Three measures of academic intelligence and three measures of social intelligence were investigated in a group of college students. In the social domain, intradomain correlations were no higher than interdomain, factor analyses produced no identifiable social factor, and academic measures were better at predicting a social competence criterion…