American Indian adolescents want their fathers to be more involved in parenting. The majority (57%) of the respondents did not consider themselves very close to their fathers. However, fathers were most highly esteemed if they were involved in tribal affairs and had less than an eighth grade education. Seven contributing variables are identified.…

Identifies and categorizes student perceptions of sexism. Respondents described critical incidents involving sexism and supplied words and phrases, nonverbal behaviors, and media representations which they interpreted as sexist. Hypothesizes about the ways sex of respondent and sex of target affected the number and type of responses. (JMF)

This article discusses a study designed to obtain some information regarding the nature of the awareness children have of their own articulatory activity and the level of mental development at which this awareness appears. (Author/CFM)

Suggestions for a modified indoor tennis game, for activities to develop body reference in young children, and for a drill to aid students with depth and space perception difficulties are presented. (LH)

It is suggested that reading is not a unitary process, but the acquisition of a succession of skills. Different retarded readers may break down at different stages in the acquisition of these. Each disability type may be associated with a particular type of deficiency in conceptual thinking. (Author/SJL)

The majority of counselors in this study identified individual and small group counseling as the activity that absorbs most of their time, followed by consulting and parent help. The counselors' perceptions of their actual and ideal roles show convergence in actual and ideal roles regarding counseling, consulting, and parent help. (Author)

In studying the effects of different teaching methods on preschoolers' language abilities it was found that the productive training condition produced more generalized responding on other kinds of tasks. (Editor)

This study was concerned with measuring perceptions of a random sample of college students toward the "father role." The Father Role Opinionnaire (FRO) was developed to compile data on five sub-role dimensions of the father role--nuturer, problem solver, provider, societal model, and recreational companion. (Author/KC)

Investigates the difference between the perceived knowledge structure of unified science students and subject-centered students, and their respective teachers' perceived knowledge structures and curriculum content structures at a Massachusetts high school during the 1973-1974 academic year. (HM)

Explains six tasks which require comprehension of words and which can be used to teach beginning readers. (MKM)

Outlines a concentrated in-service visual training program which incorporates (1) perceptual effects of visual stimuli, (2) synthetic and natural stimuli, (3) non-verbal stimuli, (4) pictorial communication, (5) visual persuasion, and (6) creative visualization. (Author/CMV)

Argues that the concept of "librarian as teacher" is an organization fiction, and that this fiction is dysfunctional being both harmful and costly. (Author/CWM)

The study explored the concept of space through the tactual discrimination of household objects in 48 4-to-7-year-old blind, partially sighted, and sighted children. (PHR)

Reports on two experiments, one performed on infants, the other on adults, designed to examine the issue of categorical perception of speech contrasts in infants in relation to linguistic processing and the innateness theory of speech perception. (AM)